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Colon cancer has been linked to high-fat diets; fatty foods increase the production of bile acids, which may irritate the lining of the colon and trigger abnormal cell growth. This could explain why the disease is found less frequently among vegetarians and in countries where people eat less fat than typical Americans...
...people who have gallstones never develop pancreatitis). When the illness is attributed to excessive alcohol consumption - the other most common cause - patients are told to practice total abstinence. It's not clear whether pancreatitis is preventable, but anyone with a family history would be well advised to avoid a high-fat diet and drink alcohol sparingly...
...year, up from 20,000 in the 1970s, according to a report by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Up to 70% of those ads are for food (though some researchers put the figure much lower, at a still considerable 25%). Ads for high-fat, high-salt foods have more than doubled since the 1980s, while commercials for fruits and vegetables remain in short supply...
...Avoid all meats, oils, nuts, high-fat dairy, alcohol...
...almost too good to be true. Researchers have designed a drug that targets and destroys the blood vessels that feed fat cells. The fat cells die and those extra pounds melt away--but only, so far, in rodents. In one experiment, mice that had doubled in size on a high-fat diet were back to normal weight in just a month, no matter what they ate. "If even a fraction of what we found in mice relates to human biology, then we are cautiously optimistic that there may be a new way to think about reversing obesity," says Renata Pasqualini...