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...range; when people eat less fat, the liver simply manufactures more. It's not yet known whether there is a similar set point for homocysteine. "People are jumping the gun if they think they can just take vitamins and skip the traditional health measures like exercising and eating a low-fat diet," says Blumenthal. "All the evidence has yet to come in." Nonetheless, in a field of medicine in which the bad news often surpasses the good, the evidence that came in last week was encouraging indeed...
BRAIN FOOD A low-fat diet may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease. A study of North America and Europe finds that Sweden--where fish is favored and fat is not--has the lowest incidence of Alzheimer...
...answer, it turns out, is yes. A study of 459 adults published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine showed for the first time that a diet that is low in saturated fat and combines lots of fruits and vegetables with low-fat dairy products can indeed reduce hypertension--and rather dramatically at that. Within two weeks, the blood pressure of the test subjects dropped significantly. By the end of the study, almost everyone on the combined diet saw their diastolic pressure drop an average of three to five points, or as much as 6%. Researchers calculate that...
...Offer more low-fat food. Summer is coming. We want to look good at the beach...
...ahead, eat like a horse. The FDA is allowing foodmakers to claim OATS may help the heart, provided they also state that the grain must be part of a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet...