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...saucepan to simmer. While all that's bubbling, you chop up half a head of iceberg lettuce and a couple of tomatoes for the salad, which you'll sprinkle with a light dressing. Dessert will be two scoops of frozen yogurt per person and a plate of assorted low-fat cookies for the family to share. Sounds pretty healthy, right...
Wrong. While this meal may be better than what most Americans eat for dinner, it's enough food for a family twice the size of yours. In addition, it contains some nutritional traps that in the best-case scenario will make you fat and in the worst will increase your chances of developing diabetes, heart disease and certain types of cancer. Think you know the pitfalls? Read on. You may discover some surprises...
...study attempted to determine the different outcomes of people consuming the same amount of calories but varying amounts of fat and carbohydrates...
Test groups included those on a low-fat diet, as recommended by the American Heart Association, those on an ultra-low carb diet, and others on an ultra-low carbohydrate diet with 300 more calories allowed...
According to Greene, the experiment tested claims—similar to those of the Atkins diet—that if one eliminates most carbohydrates in one’s diet, the body resorts to using fat stores as a source of fuel. These fat stores are burned through lipolysis, a process which converts the body’s stored fat into energy...