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The epidemiologist John Powles has suggested this predilection is little more than a Puritan bias: Bad things happen to people who eat bad things. But what people don’t eat may matter as much as what they do. This fact could explain why populations that eat diets containing lots of animal food generally have higher rates of coronary heart disease and cancer than those that don’t. But nutritionism encouraged researchers to look beyond the possibly culpable food itself—meat—to the culpable nutrient in the
meat, which scientists have long assumed to be the saturated fat.
meat, which scientists have long assumed to be the saturated fat.
— In Defense of Food
