Day: July 29, 2025

A recently published study has gotten some press coverage suggesting that olive oil consumption can make you fat. For example, the (supposedly) respectable BBC ran a story under the headline “Too much of this ‘healthy fat’ could be adding to your waistline, study finds.”

This is yet another example of what I have termed the “Academic-Media Complex,” in which bad studies are given hyped up reviews by the media, leading to more funding for research universities and more sales/clicks for news organizations, but poor information for the public. 

If you read the original study (which you can by clicking here) the results are – shocking, I know – hardly what they are hyped to be. 

What in fact did the study show?