I'm telling you the high-fat craze is next".
The low-fat craze certainly created a public health problem for the reasons you mention in your article.
It's hard to imagine the low-fat craze taking off as it did if McGovern's original food-based recommendations had stood: eat fewer meat and dairy products.
Ludwig called the low-fat craze a "nutritional disaster" because it caused many Americans to give up things we now know to be exceedingly healthy, like avocados, nuts and full-fat yogurt, while reaching for sugar-packed alternatives.
But the low-fat craze had another pernicious effect.
The low-fat craze of the last 30 years has paralleled the dramatic rise in obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
During the low-fat craze a few decades back, coconut oil was something dieters wouldn't touch in a million years.
The low-fat craze has ebbed somewhat in recent years as other nutrients -- primarily carbohydrates and, in particular, sugars -- have become the new villains of the diet scene.
Following the low-fat craze in the 1950s through the 1980s, consumer advocacy groups began to petition fast-food restaurants to stop using saturated fats to deep-fry foods.
The low-fat craze was huge and is still going strong.
Productscan Online, a firm in Naples, N.Y., that tracks new packaged products, says that at the peak of the low-fat diet craze, one-quarter of all manufactured food was designated as low fat.
