However, if one finds intrigue in the twists and turns of nutrition, few components may be more interesting to track than omega fatty acids. Duped as one of the “good fats,†mainstream media's awareness of their benefits grew after the lowfat movement of the early 1990s.
A typical scenario for nutritional or medicinal components is that, first, their popularity grows. Then, as though media feels the ingredient may have “gotten too big for its britches,†it looks for man-bites-dog stories where even insignificant negative research on the component becomes highly publicized.