The priesthood of public health
Richard Lehman has a blog about medical research at http://bmj.co/Lehman; extracts from this appear as Research Update each week in the BMJ.
On 16 July 2016 Dr Lehman had a nice comment on a recent JAMA article on "the theology of eating fat", in which he referred to diet pundits as "the priestbood of public health". The occasion was a recently published large-scale study of nurses and doctors in the USA, which concluded that saturated fat is bad for you.and polyunsaturated fat is good. Lehman's comment is that it "doesn't provide the priestbood with very much to preach about in my opinion".
On 16 July 2016 Dr Lehman had a nice comment on a recent JAMA article on "the theology of eating fat", in which he referred to diet pundits as "the priestbood of public health". The occasion was a recently published large-scale study of nurses and doctors in the USA, which concluded that saturated fat is bad for you.and polyunsaturated fat is good. Lehman's comment is that it "doesn't provide the priestbood with very much to preach about in my opinion".
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