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    How The Big Wrong Fat Message Got So Widely Accepted

    by Amos Zeeberg May 30, 2014 2 minutes

    Nutritional advice about eggs, naturally high in cholesterol, has been scrambled over the past 50 years.Jag_cz via Shutterstock

    he practice of nutritional science faces some significant problems, and they are mainly of its own making. For decades, starting in the 1950s, a consensus of experts recommended that Americans cut down

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