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...advocate the heavy fats of Atkins, the diet still has a fair share of buttery goodness. Pam Hoffman, 33, a housewife in Metairie, La., knocked off 120 lbs. eating, among other things, ham, eggs and cream of broccoli soup. In Louisiana, of course, this might not be considered a high-fat diet...
...These studies have found a prevalence of imbalanced, fast food-dependent diets among homeless children and higher fat intake and prevalence of obesity--along with significant nutritional deficiency in iron, magnesium, zinc, folic acid, and calcium--among a sample of single homeless mothers. In general, homeless study participants had high-fat diets and high serum cholesterol levels, making them more likely to be obese...
Whoever did it, the creation of technology gave its inventors an astonishing advantage over other hominid species. Stone hammers and blades let them exploit carcasses left behind by other predators and permitted them to shift to an energy-rich, high-fat diet. "That," asserts Asfaw, "leads to all kinds of evolutionary consequences...
That being the case, it's no surprise that the relationship between diet and cancer is still largely a matter of educated guesswork--and in many cases, the guesses have turned out to be wrong. Take the much publicized link between high-fat diets and breast cancer, for example. Women who live in Western countries, where high-fat diets are the norm, tend to have high breast-cancer rates. Even more telling: women of Japanese ancestry who live in the U.S. get the disease six times more often than their grandmothers and great-grandmothers in Japan. Yet a huge recent...
...days," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "that anything that tries to unify recommendations is welcome." To be useful, the Unified Dietary Guidelines go beyond percentages of calories and milligrams to give more concrete advice. Among the suggestions: Choose most of what you eat from plant sources and eat high-fat foods sparingly, especially those from animal sources. The guidelines also give suggested servings. But pay attention to what one serving means, says Gorman. It doesn?t mean a glop of food on a plate. "For fruit and vegetables, it usually means half a cup," she says, "for meat...