Losing Belly Fat Diet - Articles
High-fat diets and Cancer
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Amy D.
I promise 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 enrolli ...
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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 and the people talked about how their low-fat diet helped them lose weight. 4. I've tried alot of differ ...
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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…. High-fat diets have long been known to lead toobesity,diabetesandheart failureand to be associated with cognitive decline in the long run. But what ...
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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 high fat diet promotes the spread of cancer from studying lab mice. The study measured the impact of fat and the spread of cancer. ...
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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?Oxford researchers switched rats from a regular diet (7.5% fat) to a high-fat diet (55% of calories from fat) ...
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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 this story, author and columnist Jane Brody recounts her struggles with her cholesterol lev ...
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My Big Fat Diet
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Dr. Jonny B.
A couple of weeks ago, I attended a fantastic conference put on by the Nutrition and Metabolism Society called "Saturated Fat and Heart Disease: What is the Evidence?"The bottom line: The "evidence" is pretty darn slim.I know that flies in the face of everything we've heard for the past couple of decades, but the fact remains that the only thing we ...
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