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OSCAR SAYS ... To get fit, chop wood and pound tires. And eat deer and kangaroo too. Why? High-protein, low-fat...
...year I explored all these claims. Age is the new fat, in the way that there are things that used to say low-fat or low-calorie, which now claim to be anti-aging. You've got age-defying water. In other countries there are collagen-infused marshmallows. In Japan there's beauty ice cream. Food that used to be reviled for being fattening, like avocados, olive oil and nuts have been reborn as elixirs. Chocolate, once the poster food for appearance problems, now [claims to have] anti-aging properties. Maybe if you eat a lot of chocolate, your wrinkles...
...include junk food in their analysis, but they found that nearly 90% of kid products still did not meet established nutritional standards. What's more, 62% of the foods that researchers deemed to be of "poor nutritional quality" made positive nutritional claims on the package - such as being low-fat, containing essential nutrients or being a source of calcium. "If a parent sees a product that makes specific nutritional claims, they may assume that the whole product is nutritious," says author Charlene Elliott, a communications and culture professor at the University of Calgary. "Our study has shown that that...
...wish you had a more effective diet than the one you're on now. And if you're wondering whether Dean Ornish's low-fat diet will help you shed pounds better than Dr. Atkins' low-carb menu, the answer is simple: it doesn't matter. Scientists know that on a molecular level, different types of starch and different types of fat have varying effects when they hit the body. But in terms of weight loss, low-fat diets and low-carb diets overall are equally effective (and, most of the time, neither will help you keep the weight...
...Whether fats or carbohydrates are more filling] is one issue that's been raised - but it's been raised on both sides. The best way to get to the bottom line is to look at long-term studies where we randomize people to a high-fat/low-carb diet or to a low-fat/high-carb diet and follow them for at least a year or more. That kind of study takes into account the possibility that one kind of diet provides more satiety; so, over the long run you would see more weight loss on that diet. But those studies - half...