“Choosing to avoid meat and eat a plant-based diet has never seemed so virtuous and necessary.”
You shouldn’t trust them about diet to any greater degree than on any other subject. The Current Wisdom on diet and exercise is likely to do as much harm as good. Gary Taubes has done a lot to expose the lying that has gone into dietary recommendations.
Dietary fat doesn’t make people fat. That said, the mantra of “fat makes you fat” was a very clever way to trick people into compliance.
Good fats are critical for good health. The antifat hysteria has done tremendous harm. I have no doubt that many of garbage health and diet recommendations are intentionally bad to generate revenues for the BIG INDUSTRIAL MEDICAL complex. Yes boys and girls, there are greedy souless humanists who would do that.