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...gratin was served with the joking proviso, “Remember, this is not a dish for bikini weather.” The crowd tittered approvingly. Not that they had anything to fear—the portions served were so miniscule that I felt I was on a crash diet, not attending a course for which you had to stump up over...
...Fatty acid consumption in the western diet is unbalanced—there is too much omega 6 fats, and too little omega 3 fats,” said Kang. “We have converted the less helpful fats into the more helpful ones...
Kang said that the Western diet incorporates twenty times too much omega 6 fat, which can lead to serious health problems such as heart disease and cancer...
...diet may be good for the heart, but a moderate-fat diet (in which 33% of calories come from fats, half of which are the monounsaturated fats found in peanuts and peanut oil) seems to reduce a person's cardiovascular risk even more, according to a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The low-fat diet (in which 18% of calories are from fat) decreased by 12% the dieter's levels of HDL ("good") cholesterol, which protects against heart disease. The moderate-fat diet produced no decrease in heart-friendly HDL. --By David Bjerklie
...John Edwards? "It's not a pretty sight," says his press secretary, Jennifer Palmieri. Edwards seldom passes up a meal at Applebee's. He chugs about a dozen Diet Cokes daily, and a piece of fruit rarely passes his lips. True, eating healthy on the trail can be tough, but Edwards' diet is said to be little different from his precampaign days; he takes his wife to Wendy's every year to celebrate their wedding anniversary (a tradition since they dined there on their first anniversary in the midst of a move...