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Thought fat was bad for you? Think again...

• The Soft Science of Dietary Fat
  
  
• What If Americans Ate Less Saturated Fat?
  
  
• The Epidemic That Wasn't?
  
  
• Not convinced? Read this.
  
  
• Still not convinced? Then you probably never will be, but try this anyway. It's short.
  
  
• Trying to lose weight? It's easy: have thin parents.
  
  
• Sugar - the real culprit?
  
  

The first three articles are from Science, March 31, 2001. The last is by the same author, published in the NY Times almost exactly 10 years later: April 13, 2011.

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As Mark Twain (I think) once said: "never read health books; you may die of a misprint." The same is true of food; check out Unhappy Meals, by Michael Pollan. Kind of a long article, so here's the short story:

• Eat food. Though in our current state of confusion, this is much easier said than done. So try this: Don't eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
• Avoid even those food products that come bearing health claims.
• Especially avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable c) more than five in number - or that contain high-fructose corn syrup.
• Get out of the supermarket whenever possible.
• Pay more, eat less.
• Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
• Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
• Cook. And if you can, plant a garden.
• Eat like an omnivore.
• The grand summary: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

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