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...CHICAGO) - The low-carb, high-fat Atkins diet gets high marks in one of the biggest, longest head-to-head studies of popular weight-loss plans, beating the Zone, the Ornish diet and even U.S. guidelines. Even so, critics say the results show how hard it is to lose weight and keep...
...results echo a Harvard study published last year involving thousands of women, which also suggested that a low-carb high-fat diet might be more heart-healthy than previously thought, although it relied on women's memories of what they had eaten over two decades...
...cream and other high-fat dairy foods is associated with a decreased risk of one type of infertility. Fat-soluble foods are thought to improve ovarian functions, and the study’s authors say that fact could explain the decreased infertility rate in women who consume regular dairy foods. Inversely, low-fat dairy foods were associated with a higher risk of infertility. According to the study, the issue is especially pressing because the “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” suggests a daily intake of three servings of low-fat dairy products. The study argues that such...
...Would a high-fat diet be particularly damaging to your health, given your genetic makeup? About 15% of folks are born with a form of a liver enzyme that causes their HDL, or good cholesterol, level to go down in response to dietary fat. In most people the HDL level goes up, counterbalancing some of the bad effects of dietary fat on LDL--the dangerous cholesterol...
...study, conducted by Dr. Martin Lipkin and Harold Newmark at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, ten people with typical Western-style high-fat diets and family histories of colon cancer were given 1.2 grams, 1 times the recommended daily allowance, of calcium, which acts to neutralize bile acids. After only two to three months, tests of their colon linings showed that the number of fast-growing cells associated with cancer had significantly decreased. More study is needed, but at least one expert has already urged adults to drink a quart of fat-free milk...