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...TIME's cover story "Cracking the Fat Riddle," we asked readers, "What diet do you think would help you lose the most weight...
McDonald's, Burger King and the rest rely heavily on fatty acids to fry their wares. This is not entirely bad. Fatty acids are the building blocks of dietary fats, an essential part of the human diet. Dietary fats contain a mixture of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids (the difference: saturated fats carry a full quota of hydrogen atoms in their chemical structure, and unsaturated fats do not). Such products as tallow, lard and butter are saturated fats, whereas those like soybean, canola, olive, cottonseed, corn and other vegetable oils are unsaturated. Saturated fats are associated with increases...
...DIET The guidelines smile on diets from low-fat Asian to high-fat Mediterranean but frown on Atkins. Aim for 10% to 35% protein, 45% to 65% carbs and 20% to 35% fats (with emphasis on good fats...
These complaints are manifestly unreasonable; Cambridge has been a college town for longer than any of Tommy’s neighbors have been alive. Tommy’s pies have been served for as long as anybody can remember—they are as important to Harvard life as Diet Coke-filled vending machines and John Harvard’s Monday nights. More people probably eat slices at Tommy’s every week than read books at Widener. There will be no compromise. If Cambridge denizens cannot cope with students running to Tommy’s to get their...
Moutardier joked that maybe he was on a diet, but she too asked him if he wanted to eat. "I talked to him in French, assuming he was French. He said he didn't speak French. I wanted to be nice, so I asked where he was from, and he told me Sri Lanka." She didn't believe him. And she was right. For he turned out to be Reid, now 29, a British citizen who investigators believe was an operative in the al-Qaeda network...