Why Eating Fat Doesn't Make You Fat (And Which Fats Are Actually Destroying You)
The low-fat movement of the 1980s and 1990s was one of the most consequential mistakes in nutritional public health history. It produced a generation of fat-phobic eaters who replaced dietary fat with refined carbohydrates — and a population-wide increase in obesity, metabolic dysfunction, and hormonal disruption that has barely recovered in the decades since.
The fundamental confusion was between dietary fat and body fat. These are not the same substance and do not operate through the same mechanism. Body fat accumulation is driven primarily by caloric surplus — consuming more energy than the body expends — combined with insulin signaling that determines how that surplus is stored.
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