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...carb. High fiber. No sugar. Reduced fat. Points. Exchanges. "Everything that you can think of has been done," says Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University and the author of What to Eat. "It's hard to think of some new gimmick in dieting." Have no fear. Each year as the New Year's resolution season draws near, the publishing industry dreams up novel weight-loss schemes to entice the ever plumper U.S. population, nearly two-thirds of which is overweight. The new crop of diet books recommends everything from treating meals as mood medicine to eating dinner...
...Iris and Miles’s first date, in which he attempts to make light of an “accidental boob graze,” and the hilarious spectacle of drunken Amanda perusing the aisles of an English market in search of fuel for her post break-up carb binge. The jury is still out on whether or not Diaz was actually allowed to consume any of her high- calorie purchases...
...Journal of Medicine, relied on data collected from HSPH’s Nurses’ Health Study, a sweeping project which collected data from over 120,000 women starting in 1976. HSPH researchers also found that there was an association between a lowered risk of heart disease and low-carb diets that were high in vegetable sources of fat and protein. “We are not recommending a low-carb diet over a low-fat diet,” said Thomas L. Halton, one of the authors of the study. “The truth of the matter...
Pass the avocado! Scientists from the Harvard School of Public Health last week announced the results of a pioneering 20-year-long study, which showed that low-carb diets--typically high in fats and proteins--don't necessarily raise the risk of coronary heart disease. The study, which tracked the health of more than 82,000 women, showed that cutting back on white bread and pasta--as advocated by the South Beach diet--doesn't boost chances of a heart attack. "The diet is healthy," says study co-author Frank...
...license to go hyper-Atkins and eat as much meat as you want. "You should pay attention to healthy fats and proteins rather than just load your plate with bacon," Hu says. In fact, he and his team did find benefits to eating less meat--subjects who ate low-carb diets that took their fats and proteins from sources like vegetables and nuts cut the risk of developing heart disease...