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Article: Vitamin E & fat: anatomy of a flip-flop. (included list of sources of vitamin E and research results)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Center for Science in the Public Interest. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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"High-vitamin-E foods, even if high-fat, can prevent heart attacks," declared Dan Rather on the "CBS Evening News" last May 1. "Margarine may be good for a healthy heart," announced the headline in the Los Angeles Times the next morning.
Since 1977, health authorities have been urging Americans to eat less fat to cut their risk of heart disease, cancer, and obesity. All it took was one new study to convince millions of people that two decades" of advice had been turned on its head.
"It's so frustrating when scientists flip-flop," says Nutrition Action reader Hilda Zentner of Rockville, Maryland.
You bet it's frustrating. And this one wasn't even a ...