Saturated Confusion

For more than 30 years, health officials have advocated dietary changes to overcome a spectrum of nutrition-related problems observed in children, adolescents, and adults. In 1979, while Vice Admiral Julius Richmond was surgeon general, Healthy People, The Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention noted dietary fat as a potential risk factor contributing to cardiovascular disease (U.S. Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare 1979). Each of the subsequent Dietary Gu…