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Nutrition book on the history of the 'low-fat' diet recommendation. Sounds dry? I find it fascinating as we all grew up under this madness that has little scientific foundation or cultural background. I realize how much our lives and our health has been negatively affected by this. The Mediterranean diet? A huge PR machine supported it! How did we get to doctors recommending margarine (trans fats) for heart health. Oops! It contributes to heart disease but there were powerful forces pushing for its use. Now we have rising obesity and diabetes as a result of our fear of fat and the emphasis on carbs and so many have suffered from mistaken public policy. It's a well written book and I highly recommend it!

It makes me remember my home ex class in the 70s and 6th grade where the teachers taught us the four important ingredients: Karo (corn) syrup, artificial food colorings, crisco (trans fats) and bisquix which was a white flour mix. Industrial foods to poison your family with.

Mistaken public policy? Nope. Criminal public policy. And doctors are still pushing this nonsense to this day.

I remember back in the 70s when the first food pyramids came out. My father (a farm boy) looked at it and guffawed and said, "Well, if you want to be 400 pounds, you should eat like that. That's how we feed the cows to fatten them for market."

So, luckily, we grew up eating steaks and eggs and real butter. Yum!

HS, Yes, I agree it's criminal how much suffering this has caused. This is the kind of thing that makes people not trust 'science'. How skewed it can get! And this has gone on for 50 years!

Your Dad was exactly right. My mother was raised on a dairy farm and had common sense about food so she was never pulled in too much by low fat frosted corn flakes much to my disappointment when I was a kid. She made real food and still eats that way and is 91 and active.