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In the 1970s and 1980s, legions of people went all-in on low-fat diets.

The food industry rushed to respond, and soon grocery store shelves were lined with low-fat snacks—often sugary and highly processed.

The committee reviewed studies and found that when people swapped whole-fat dairy for low-fat dairy or even beef for chicken, their risk of cardiovascular disease remained largely unchanged.

Also featured are studies by Mr. Hall, who has shown that there is not a meaningful difference between low-carb and low-fat diets when it comes to losing weight.

“We are encouraging programs to switch from low-fat dairy — which the antiquated Dietary Guidelines require them to promote — to full-fat/whole milk,” Kennedy wrote on X.