{"id":608,"date":"2006-02-07T20:16:36","date_gmt":"2006-02-08T01:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/wp\/?p=608"},"modified":"2006-02-07T20:16:36","modified_gmt":"2006-02-08T01:16:36","slug":"arrogance-dies-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Arrogance Dies Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-food fascists in the American medical community were put in their place &#8211; hard &#8211; this week.<br \/>\nThe instrument of their comeuppance?  An eight year, $415 million federal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/07\/health\/07cnd-fat.html?hp&ex=1139374800&en=9fdd8d6b9954745d&ei=5094&partner=homepage\" target=\"_blank\">study <\/a>of almost 49,000 women which concluded that low-fat diets have NO effect on reducing the incidence of heart disease, stroke and breast cancer.<br \/>\nYou read that right:  NO EFFECT.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nNaturally, there are those who are attempting to tap dance around the results, and there are those who still cling to their outdated opinions about virtue and tasteless food, but let&#8217;s give the last word to Jules Hirsch, physician in chief emeritus at Rockefeller University:<br \/>\n&#8220;These studies are revolutionary. They should put a stop to this era of thinking that we have all the information we need to change the whole national diet and make everybody healthy.&#8221;<br \/>\nAmen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-food fascists in the American medical community were put in their place &#8211; hard &#8211; this week. The instrument of their comeuppance? An eight year, $415 million federal study of almost 49,000 women which concluded that low-fat diets have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}