The U.S. government is poised to withdraw longstanding warnings about cholesterol in your diet

Washington Post ^ | 2/10/2015 | Peter Whoriskey

[jdege]

40-50 years ago, our public health officials jumped on the idea that we needed to eat a low-fat, low-sodium, low-cholesterol, high-carb diet, for "health".

With no real scientific evidence to back up the claim.

The result has been an explosion in obesity, diabetes, and assorted diseases.

It's well past time for them to admit that they simply got it wrong.

[pfflier]

I thought the science was...settled.

[Uncle Miltie]

Eggs ... aren’t bad for you.

Salt ... Americans don’t get enough.

Carbohydrates at the bottom of the Food Pyramid ... Never mind.

Cholesterol ... Eat that steak!

Way to go Feds.

Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us that driving cars will change the weather.

[Uncle Miltie]

Do diabetics get to sue?

[thorvaldr]

“I thought the science was...settled.”

You type faster than I do.

[SoFloFreeper]

In about 20 years, the morons will announce they’ve finally figured out Global Warming was all BS.

[Republican1795.]

They will probably never admit any such thing.

[Steely Tom]

There was a “scientific consensus” on this subject, wasn’t there?

[McGruff]

We’ve turned into a nation of pill poppers. I got one word for you, pharmaceuticals.

[corlorde]

No, liberals will not give up their faith based religion of man made global warming, even if they have to freeze to death.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Sugar is the new cholesterol. Fast forward another 40 years.

“Sugar is not actually all that bad for you. Our bad.”

I can’t remember his name, but there is a surgeon who says that statin drugs are what is doing all of the damage to arteries not dietary intake.

[LibertarianLiz]

So, when do they officially apologize to the family of the late Dr. Atkins?

[jdege]

There was a “scientific consensus” on this subject, wasn’t there?

1984 NIH Consensus Conference on Cholesterol

Best summary: "If there had really been a consensus, there'd have been no need for a conference."

[moovova]

Have they axed Michelle yet?

[KarlInOhio]

Time for my doctor to prescribe me an all pork diet.

[stylin19a]

yet the school lunch program will continue to serve stuff that gets sent right to the trash .

[Rusty0604]

You are absolutely correct.

[taildragger]

In about 20 years, the morons will announce they’ve finally figured out Global Warming was all BS.

And that Harry Reid didn't have an exercise machine malfunction...

[Rusty0604]

The “ice age” didn’t pan out in the seventies, so then it was “global warming”, but now they are just calling it “climate change”. Who can argue with that?

[bert]

They axed the Wookie about transfats and she said”not really”