"“It appears that efforts to promote the use of low-calorie and low-fat food products have been highly successful,” Weinsier noted, but the reduction in fat intake did “not appear to have prevented the progression of obesity in the population.”"
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Chapter 14, “The Mythology of Obesity” (p. 234; the reference is to scientist Roland Weinsier)
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