High-fat diets and Cancer
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Amy D.
... e this isn't one of those posts that start linking red-meat as the cause of cancer. :0) It's actually quite the opposite! I just read this exciting article titled Can a High-Fat Diet Beat Cancer? From the article: Since early 2007, Dr. Melanie Schmidt and biologist Ulrike Kämmerer, both at the Würzburg hospital, have been enrolling cance ...
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Low-Fat Diets
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Mark D.
I always ask the same question when someone tells me they're on a LOW-FAT DIET. Why? The answers are usually something like: 1. Fats are bad for me. 2. I'm trying to lose weight on my low-fat diet. 3. I saw this commercial on television a ...
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trans fats in the diet
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Martin Eastwood
A review of trans fats by D Mozaffarian, A Aro and W C Willett indicating that these ar not too good for out health. Growing evidence indicates that trans-fatty acids (TFA) adversely affect cardiovascular health. As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Scientific Update on TFA, we reviewed the evidence for effects of TFA consumption on coro ...
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HIGH FAT DIETS LOWER ENDURANCE
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marie dufour RD
When switched to a high-fat diet, rats show a 50% reduction in physical endurance and start to get disoriented. What does it mean for gym rats? By Marie Dufour, RD- TAKE IT FROM THE RATS…. ...
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High Fat Diet Promotes Cancer Spread
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Kathleen
Researchers have found that consuming a high fat diet increases the chances that cancer will metastasize, or spread, by three hundred percent. Purdue University scientists have precisely measured the process of how a hi ...
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HIGH FAT DIETS LOWER ENDURANCE
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marie dufour RD
By Marie Dufour, RD – TAKE IT FROM THE RATS…. High-fat diets have long been known to lead to obesity, diabetes and heart failure and to be associated with cognitive decline in the long run. But what is their short-term effect ...
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Useless low-fat diets
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Dr. William D.
If you would like to read an ironic testimonial to the futility of conventional low-fat diets, read: Cutting Cholesterol, an Uphill Battle on the New York Times website at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/health/21brod.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&r In ...
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My Big Fat Diet
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Dr. Jonny B.
... hould be looking at some much more potent and dangerous risk factors- like sugar, for example.At the conference, Dr. Jay Wortman showed a fantastic documentary called "My Big Fat Diet". Wortman and his colleagues did a year long study of the residents of Alert Bay, a Canadian town in which the vast majority of the people are overweight and diabete ...
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Tips for “right fats” diet
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Andrea Grace
... that can offer you some energy!Reduce injury: Unsaturated fats can help stave off injuries, such as stress fractures. A 2008 study found that female runners on low-fat diets are at increased risk of injury—and a sidelined runner can’t burn as many calories.Short tips:Omega-3 fats are good; they help to prevent inflammati ...
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My Big Fat Diet
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Cassandra F.
No, this isn't a new diet craze hitting the shelves, but rather, My Big Fat Diet is a documentary demonstrating the use and safety of a low carb diet within an entire Canadian Native community. I encourage you to click on the link and see just how ...
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