01/25/2026
“For several decades now, bad science and bad politics have joined hands to produce what is arguably the most costly error in the history of science—the low-fat diet.
This fad diet has cost millions unnecessary death and suffering from heart disease, diabetes, and, it increasingly seems, a host of cancers and other chronic and debilitating illnesses.
Gary Taubes, the esteemed science writer, has written two brilliant and highly regarded pieces on exactly this subject. The first appeared in Science Magazine in 1999 and the second in the New York Times just this summer (July 7, 2002).
A new age is dawning in nutrition: one where the culprit is seen not as dietary fat but as excess consumption of carbohydrate—particularly refined or processed carbohydrate.
In fact, there’s an increasing awareness that excess carbohydrates play a dominant role in chronic diseases such as obesity, coronary heart disease, many cancers, and diabetes.
This understanding comes directly from current medical research. Amazingly, the near-universal perception that dietary fat is the major culprit in obesity has no scientific foundation.”
-The Glycemic Index (2002) | Greg Glassman
Full article on brokenscience.org
