5 Reasons Why Everything You Thought About Eating Fats Is Wrong

By: Pauline Mak

In 1913, Russian physician Nikolai Anitschkow, working in Freiburg, Germany, studied the effects that consuming fats had on rabbits. His research showed that his bunnies, when fed a diet of animal fats, developed lesions on their arteries similar to atherosclerosis, a disease that causes hardening and plaque buildup in arterial walls, one of the leading causes of death today.

It was studies like these that eventually led nutritionists to propose the fat-free diet craze of the 1990s where everyone would eat plates loaded with pasta, bread and cookies—but, hey, they were all fat-free, so they were supposed to be good for …read more