THE LASTANTI-FAT CRUSADERS:Low-fat-diet regimen is based on bad science

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Editor's Note: Ms. Teicholz is the author of "The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet" (Simon & Schuster, 2014). This opinion piece appeared in the Wall Street Journal this fall, and is reprinted here with permission from the author. It has been edited for this space.The top scientist guiding the U.S. government's nutrition recommendations made an admission last month that would surprise most Americans. Low-fat diets, Alice Lichtenstein said, are "probably not a good idea." It was a rare public acknowledgment conceding the failure of the basic principle behind 35 years of official American nutrition advice.