Posts Tagged ‘low fat diet’
Do Vegetarian Diets Live Up to the Hype?
Are vegetarian diets the best way to lower all disease risks and maintain a low body weight?
When Will Low Fat Diets Go Away?
For the average person, the changes we’ve seen as to how diet contributes to heart disease have been interesting, but for many people they have also been exhausting and confusing.
For two decades we were taught that diets high in fat and cholesterol contribute to heart disease; this teaching has been dubbed the “diet-heart hypothesis.” Low fat diets were recommended by every large health organization, and people adopted the low fat way of life. There was only one problem — heart disease rates did not drop. They continued to climb.
Can a Low-Fat Diet Really Prevent Ovarian Cancer?
A new study has been touted as showing that a low-fat diet can reduce the risk for ovarian cancer. But the results are a lot iffier than you might believe.
