Word: fatted
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...hindsight, it's easy to say that the investigators made a mistake in tracking only the total amount of fat consumed and not the saturated and trans fats now known to damage arteries. But all the earlier research on preventing cancer suggested that total fat was the culprit, so investigators decided to concentrate on that...
...have noticed the big headlines last week suggesting that low-fat diets--long recommended as the path to better health--don't do any good. Before you rush off to order a cheeseburger with an ice-cream chaser, however, you should take a closer look at the studies on which those headlines were based. You'll probably end up concluding, as I did, that paying attention to how much and what kind of fat you consume is pretty important after all. First, some background. There were three studies, all published in the Journal of the American Medical Association...
Nearly 49,000 women were divided into two groups: one received intensive training to reduce dietary fat; the other was given literature on healthy eating. Fat consumption in the intervention group fell from 38% to 24% in the first year, then slid back to 29% by the sixth year. The control group started at 38% fat and finished...
...answer to the first question is that it's really, really hard to get a lot of women to cut their fat intake to 20%--basically no butter or nuts and very little meat. As for the question about whether low-fat diets prevent cancer, the WHI study simply may not have gone on long enough. True, there was no statistically significant benefit when you compared the two large groups. But the women who had the highest fat consumption at the start of the trial and who managed to cut it back the closest to 20% for the longest period...
...Woman”—only instead of Julia Roberts teaching Richard Gere how to live a little, “Something New” has a gardener teaching a businesswoman how to live a little. The film is a little reminiscent of “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” where a white man struggles for acceptance by the ethnic woman’s family. In fact, “Something New” is reminiscent of a lot of other movies...