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Why nutrition Is so confusing
by Gary Taubes, New York Times, 8 February 2014

Taubes reports that in 1960, fewer than 13 percent of Americans were obese, and 1 percent were diagnosed as diabetic. At the time, fewer than 1100 articles were published on obesity or diabetes in the indexed medical literature. In the years since then, the obesity percentage has increased by a factor of 3, and diabetes percentage by a factor of 7. But more than 600,000 research articles on these conditions have now appeared in the literature.

Submitted by Bill Peterson