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I don’t think that’s the myth, though. I don’t hear people saying that fatty food makes you fat. I do hear “eat less fat.” A high-fat diet is bad for you. Eat too much and it will make you fat among other things but you can say that about anything you over-eat.

The myth is “low-fat food is automatically healthy.”

Most people probably don’t need to worry about fat if they just eat a reasonably healthy diet.

It’s a cognitive problem.

Good science says: “high-fat diets are associated with these poor health outcomes.”

People hear: “fat bad! Give us all the fat-free food!”

Good science says: “no, we need fat just not too much and some kinds are better than others.”

People hear: “nothing wrong with fat! ‘Fat bad’ was bullshit! Eat all the fat!”