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...Fat grams per portion size...
...other cultures, nuts, seeds and beans make up a major part of the diet, supplying all sorts of key nutrients that are hard to replace. If Americans could incorporate more of them into meals, much as we have embraced olive oil to replace less healthy sources of fat, our collective health would improve, and our average waistline would shrink. Here...
...restraint is necessary with kidney beans, lentils, chickpeas and their brother beans. They're low in fat and calories and packed with fiber, protein and minerals--and they fill you up to boot. There's a big, beautiful world of legumes, and they play an important role in many ethnic cuisines. Use them dried, fresh, canned or frozen in soups, stews, chilies, curries, pilafs and falafel...
...USDA's Food Guide Pyramid has turned into a battleground over how much fat is good for you. On one side are those like Dr. Dean Ornish of the University of California, San Francisco, who want you to slash fat intake to 10% of daily calories. On the other is Harvard's Dr. Walter Willett, who favors the Mediterranean diet, which permits as much as 40% of calories to come from fat as long as they are from a healthy fat such as olive...
...When all fat became bad, anything nonfat became good. Unfortunately, "low-fat" or "fat-free" products are often high in sugar, making them caloric catastrophes...