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Hold the Eggs and Butter

This famous 1984 TIME cover article was published soon after the results of the Lipid Research Clinics Coronary Primary Prevention Trial (LRC-CPPT) were released. The article cemented the idea that dietary cholesterol and saturated fat were linked to heart disease and should be reduced in the American diet. It broadly illustrates the landscape of heart disease thinking and practice at the time, which centered on the well-established diet-heart hypothesis.

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