A ‘ HEALTHY DIET ’ In recent decades, dietary science seems to have degenerated into an endless quest for ever more substances in the human diet which can be said to cause some disease or other. There is now hardly any food which is ‘safe ’ to eat, and fats and sugar are looked upon by the credulous as highly toxic substances: roughly on a par with dioxin, or plutonium. And hardly a week passes that something that was formerly held to be good for you is now found to be bad for you – and vice... Sign in to see full entry.