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Among the other additions implemented by HDS are more low-fat entrees, longer house, more-self service, increased box lunch choices, student choice meals, more ethnic foods, culinary displays and a student food committee...
...calorie-free. Cathy DeThorne, a research director at the Leo Burnett advertising agency, ran a series of focus-group studies for the Beef Industry Council that suggest that when it comes to food, people show an almost infinite capacity for self-delusion. A woman believed she was eating a low-fat diet because she was pouring the fat off her pork chops. Others forsook meat for healthy salads, and then drowned those salads in dressings that contained more fat than the meat they gave...
...orally compulsive piggies. At least this seems to be the going explanation for America's latest leap into pandemic obesity -- 33% of U.S. adults 20 years of age or older are estimated to be overweight. It almost doesn't matter what we eat, the obesity experts say. Give us low-fat foodstuffs, and we'll binge on them in megacalorie doses; turn your back for a moment, and we'll be scarfing down a Mallomar or whatever other substance comes to hand. What we really need is love, according to the mass-neurosis theory -- or community or respect -- and what...
...low-fat product knocked by Feds for egregious labeling...
Unfortunately, standard low-fat diets have only a modest effect on most people's blood-cholesterol levels, and, until recently, drugs were not much better. That changed in 1987, when the first of a new class of compounds -- called statins -- was approved for use in the U.S. Statins reduce cholesterol by blocking production of a key enzyme needed to manufacture lipoproteins. Scientists predicted that if a drug like simvastatin were put to a long-term test, it would reduce death rates by one-third...