The big studies that tried to get people to eat less fat used groups of people who don’t represent the general public and cost too much to roll out to everyone—so they’re not realistic for everyday health programs.

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Dietary fat, coronary heart disease, and cancer: a historical review.

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The study says the WHI diet experiment used a small, special group of people and was too expensive and complicated to do for everyone, which is exactly what the claim says.

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Dietary fat, coronary heart disease, and cancer: a historical review.

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DOI: 10.1016/J.YPMED.2006.07.013

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The big studies that tried to get people to eat less fat used weird groups of people and super complicated, costly methods that most health programs can’t actually use for everyone.

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The diets weren’t just about eating less fat — they also banned butter, added lots of vegetable oil, and cut out eggs, so we don’t know which part actually mattered.

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