On the one hand, as we’ve said, they’ve been willing to blame the victims, at least those who are overweight or obese, for eating too much and exercising too little, and the food industry for making too much food available and for manipulating the taste with sugar, salt, and fat to the point that we just can’t eat in the necessary moderation. They’ve also entertained the possibility that dietary fat and particularly saturated fat plays a uniquely causal role. But their tests of this dietary fat hypothesis have mostly failed to support it.
