3 Facts About Fat That Could Have Saved Us All A Lot Of Trouble
With one dramatic study, Swedish scientists have at last put saturated fat in its place. Eating just got a whole lot easier. Christofer Backlin had gained 5 pounds, and it was all because of the muffins. Swallowing one last bite of crumbly cake, the 31-year-old resident of Uppsala, Sweden, closed his eyes and exhaled with relief. It was his 49th day and his 160th baked good (total tally: 40 chocolate, 40 vanilla, 40 lemon, 18 strawberry , 16 apple, 5 cinnamon, and 1 very unfortunate tropical flavor), and it marked the end of a bizarre, vaguely masochistic experiment. "Let's just say I won't be interested in muffins again for a while," says the medical PhD student, who had been forcing them down after every meal , every day for 7 weeks. One of his peers had quit the study, unable to stomach one more crumb, but Backlin never considered dropping out. "The world needs an answer," he says. He's right. There was a final unresolved mystery in the decades-long...