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"Ignore What Doesn´t Fit. How the Cholesterol Myths are Kept Alive"
Preview Chapter By Uffe Ravnskov

Saturated Fat: What to Do?
by Laura B. LaValle 05/05/2009

Healthy food: Should we be eating more fat? A controversial new book claims healthy eating makes us more susceptible to disease October 21, 2008
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The Fat Fight Goes On
NY Times, July 24, 2008,  By John Tierney Read

The Soft Science of Dietary Fat
Mainstream nutritional science has demonized dietary fat, yet 50 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer. Gary Taubes Read pdf icon
 
Diet Heart Hypothesis
Dr. Weinberg reviews the merits of the original diet-heart correlation and investigates the potential promise of the wave of high protein diets, stipulating that the accolades for the former may have been premature. Read

What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? An Interview with Gary Taubes
Martha Henry, program coordinator for the Knight Fellowships, interviews Gary Taubes about his controversial article. Read

What if Bad Fat is Actually Good for You?
For decades, Americans have been told that saturated fat clogs arteries and causes heart disease. But there's just one problem: No one's ever proved it By: Nina Teicholz, Men’s Health Magazine Read

The Skinny on Fats from the Weston Price Foundation Readpdf icon

Low-Fat Diet's Benefits Rejected - Study Finds No Drop In Risk for Disease By Rob Stein, Washington Post The eight-year study of nearly 50,000 middle-age and elderly women -- by far the largest, most definitive test of cutting fat from the diet -- did not find any clear evidence that doing so reduced their risks, undermining more than a decade of advice from many doctors.
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Low-carb Diet Better Than Low-fat Diet At Improving Metabolic Syndrome ScienceDaily - Diabetes and cardiovascular disease associated with it. In an article published today in the open access journal Nutrition & Metabolism, Jeff Volek and Richard Feinman review the literature and show that the features of metabolic syndrome are precisely those that are improved by reducing carbohydrates in the diet. Read

Big Fat Lies with Gary Taubes Video from Stevens Institute of Technology, February 6, 2008
















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