Rethinking Butter, Beef and Bacon
Is it okay to eat butter now? “It’s not a sin,” says Steven Nissen, MD, chair of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Nissen and other top cardiologists
want you to know that things are changing in our view of diet and heart disease.
Indeed, the new federal government-commissioned Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee includes some surprising departures from previous advice. Old beliefs have been overturned and new research avenues opened. Some controversies have heated up.
It may be time to rethink everything we “know” about a healthy diet.


