--- title: We Were Wrong About Fat description: Exploring the pollution-dementia link, ending merit-based scholarships, using iPhones to study LGBT Americans, and more. canonical: https://time.com/3937393/we-were-wrong-about-fat/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-26T16:00:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:02:47.570Z article:section: Ideas og:title: We Were Wrong About Fat og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/3937393/we-were-wrong-about-fat/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: We Were Wrong About Fat twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # We Were Wrong About Fat by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 26, 2015 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 26, 2015 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**We were wrong about fat.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/06/25/416936527/farewell-low-fat-why-scientists-applaud-lifting-a-ban-on-fat) By Eliza Barclay at NPR **2\.** [**Want to boost graduation rates for poor students? End merit-based college scholarships.**](http://hechingerreport.org/states-moving-college-scholarship-money-away-from-the-poor-to-the-wealthy-and-middle-class/) By Meredith Kolodner at Hechinger Report **3\.** [**Here’s how the iPhone will help scientists study the unique health needs of LGBT Americans for the first time.**](http://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemlee/a-big-lgbt-health-study-is-coming-to-the-iphone#.cbZ7NYMGk) By Stephanie M. Lee in Buzzfeed **4\.** [**We can fight cholera by crowdsourcing better maps.**](http://www.ozy.com/fast-forward/ozy-video-better-maps-less-cholera/41371) By Tom Gorman in Ozy **5\.** [**Does air pollution cause dementia?**](http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/05/air-pollution-dementia-alzheimers-brain) By Aaron Reuben in Mother Jones  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3937393/we-were-wrong-about-fat/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3937393/we-were-wrong-about-fat/"},"headline":"We Were Wrong About Fat","datePublished":"2015-06-26T16:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:02:47.570Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/3937393/we-were-wrong-about-fat/","keywords":["Innovation","fat","Pollution","iPhone","LGBT","Dementia","scholarships"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3937393/we-were-wrong-about-fat/","name":"We Were Wrong About Fat"}}]}] ```