I’m always amazed at how the lipid hypothesis of heart disease has wormed its way deep into souls of physicians, scientists, and medical/nutritional writers the world over. The most flimsy piece of research that seems to confirm this entrenched bias is not only accepted uncritically (not by yours truly, of course), but shouted from the rooftops by the likes of USA Today, the New York Times, Reuters, and other general publications.

Then along comes a study with some true value that, although published in a prestigious journal, is vigorously ignored. Such seems to be the fate of a tremendous piece of research appearing in the current issue of Diabetes Care. Since this journal, like JAMA, makes available to the public the full text of articles its editors deem of significant public health importance, you can get the article in its entirety here.

Researchers at University College in London looked at the mortality data generated over the past 33 years from the Whitehall Study, which, like the Women’s Health Initiative, is a large, government funded study. In the Whitehall Study
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