Monkey Business

I was reading a recent article in the NY Times about using monkeys and mice/rats as an experimental model for obesity and diabetes research and ran across this statement:

"Dr. Hansen, who has been doing research on obese monkeys for four decades, prefers animals that become naturally obese with age, just as many humans do. Fat Albert, one of her monkeys who she said was at one time the world’s heaviest rhesus, at 70 pounds, ate “nothing but an American Heart Association-recommended diet,” she said."

Maybe the American Heart Association diet is not so healthy after all.