Why 40 years of official nutritional guidelines prescribed a low-fat diet that promoted heart disease

Indeed, I’ve gone through periods of a lot of running where people told me I was way too skinny. Like, 28" in the waist skinny.

And of course, because of the muscle I carry in my legs (I am guessing, big meaty things compared to the rest of me which is pretty scrawny), I was even then borderline overweight. This is just from recollection, but again I plug 5’9" into that chart, and at 155 I’m almost overweight??

According to this chart 125 would still be healthy, but I haven’t been 125 since I was in puberty. The only way I can see getting down to that is if I am dying of something.

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