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...editorial. But in the U.S., maintaining a low weight is not merely a social pressure, but a piece of medical advice. Doctors and nutritionists alike emphasize the importance of reducing fat and cholesterol so as to lessen the risk of heart attack, diabetes and other unhealthy conditions. The reality of these findings is that both men and women are caught up in the "fat-free"--or the less grueling "low-fat"--obsession...
Enrico launched a major overhaul, including more than 1,000 layoffs, that slashed half a billion dollars from operating expenses. He used the savings to improve existing products, lower prices and aggressively roll out new items. Recently the company has been adding low-fat varieties that are hits. Aiding that strategy has been a 13,000-strong delivery force armed with hand-held computers that can track buying trends by the day and act accordingly...
WHILE GENETICS PLAYS A MAjor role--black Americans, for example, have a 37% higher risk than whites of contracting the disease--environment is obviously involved. In such countries as China and Japan, where low-fat diets of vegetables and fish are the norm, the incidence of prostate cancer is extremely low. But prostate-cancer rates for first- and second-generation Japanese Americans are considerably higher than in Japan...
...change to a Western diet. In a test of that conjecture, researchers at Sloan-Kettering, led by Dr. William Fair and pharmacologist Warren Heston, discovered that tumors grew more rapidly in mice fed a high-fat diet than in those on a low-fat diet. And when the animals on high-fat diets were switched to low-fat ones, the growth of their tumors slowed...
...years scientists have reported conflicting evidence on whether cutting down on fat in the diet could decrease the risk of breast cancer. The latest: it won't. A huge analysis, pooling data on 340,000 females from four countries, shows no relationship between dietary fat and breast-cancer rates. Even extremely low-fat regimens, with fat providing less than 20% of total calories, did not reduce the cancer risk...