Low-Fat Diet's Benefits Rejected: "Low-fat diets do not protect women against heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer or colon cancer, a major study has found, contradicting what had once been promoted as one of the cornerstones of a healthy lifestyle.
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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It's important to understand that 10 years ago when the study began, they didn't understand that there were major differences in the types of fat we consume. The study included not only saturated fat, but non-saturated, and mono-saturated fats as well. Today, we understand that there are good fats as well as bad fats. I'd say that given this information, this study is flawed and the results are overblown. If separate studies could be done on both the good and bad fats, I'd venture to say that there would be a marked difference in the results. I'm staying away from the saturated fat and using more of the mono-saturated and non-transfat.
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