" The reason for this book is straightforward: despite the depth and certainty of our faith that saturated fat is the nutritional bane of our lives and that obesity is caused by overeating and sedentary behavior, there has always been copious evidence to suggest that those assumptions are incorrect, and that evidence is continuing to mount. “There is always an easy solution to every human problem,” H. L. Mencken once said—“ neat, plausible, and wrong. "

― Gary Taubes , Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control, and Disease