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The American Heart Association suggests that reducing fat intake can reduce heart disease.

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This marks the beginning of an unnuanced focus on "low-fat" diets for health that will result in shame and blame directed towards cultural diets, poverty diets, and pleasure diets. This trend of diet shaming will become a foundation of fatphobia.