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...result of illness, poverty or neglect, but Dr. Michael Pugliese found that the child was basically healthy and the couple well-to-do and doting. In fact, the parents were so committed to caring for Noelle (not her real name) that they had placed her on a stringent low-fat diet in an effort to ensure that she did not become obese. Told that the strict regimen was stunting the toddler's growth, they were surprised. Says Pugliese, a pediatric endocrinologist at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, N.Y.: "They really felt they were doing what was right...
...Pugliese. Restrictive diets, he notes, now account for about one-fourth of the cases of failure to thrive seen at the hospital. Pugliese and Pediatric Nutritionist Michelle Weyman-Daum reviewed the records of seven children, age seven months to 22 months, and found that the youngsters were all on low-fat, low-cholesterol diets and getting only 63% to 94% of the calories they needed. Parents typically substituted skim milk for whole, fed their toddlers lean meat and complex carbohydrates, and forbade eating between meals...
...less fat and 43% fewer calories than regular beef. Cuts ordered by TIME from the Brae Beef Shop in Stamford, Conn., proved to be by far the best of the four varieties; the various bright ruby red cuts were extraordinarily juicy and flavorful. That juiciness was unique among the low-fat beefs, and the technique for achieving it is a secret that Grant guards closely...
...been suffering from severe heart disease for most of his adult life. His condition was due largely to a genetic disorder that afflicts 1 in 500 Americans, causing abnormally high levels of cholesterol to accumulate in the blood and ultimately clog the arteries. In Lewis' case, the strictest low-fat diet and all the drugs that medicine could muster had failed to control the problem. By the time he was 47, his arteries were so blocked--a condition known as atherosclerosis--that he required quadruple-bypass surgery. Nine years later a double-bypass was performed. But in both instances...
...apotheosis of flour and water. Blended to form a simple paste (hence pasta), those humble ingredients achieve culinary brilliance and almost universal popularity. Pasta, it seems, is the perfect food for our time, prized by gourmands for reasons purely hedonistic and by nutritionists as a healthful source of energizing, low-fat, complex carbohydrates...