The vilification of cholesterol and animal fats by the medical system and the American Heart Association began around the mid-1950s.

“then in the mid to early 1950s that i think it was president lyndon johnson had a heart attack and at that point people were asking what it just captured the american the american imagination and we thought why did this this hero you know this this this paragon of our culture have a heart attack and i think it almost took about office my history is a little fuzzy there but that was the beginning of the medical system and the american heart association and the american medical association beginning to vilify cholesterol and then in connection with that animal fats”