No. Fat, in particular, has been blamed for the illnesses caused in fact by sugar and by hydrogenated oils (called "trans fat" on US food labels). Most people s

No. Fat, in particular, has been blamed for the illnesses caused in fact by sugar and by hydrogenated oils (called "trans fat" on US food labels). Most people still believe that saturated fat is the cause of those illnesses, and still prefer "low-fat" food laced, instead, with sugar. Technically, trans fats were supposed to be banned in US food, but major corporations get from the FDA a "temporary exception", year after year, to put it in anyway, with no requirement to reveal it as "trans fat" on the label. It has been well-known as a major cause of heart disease since the '70s, but took until late in the last decade to get (technically) banned.