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Is Meat Eating Hazardous to Your Health?

September 9th, 2010 · No Comments · food news

I’m not a scientist or a statistician, but I was skeptical when Dean Ornish, who’s been pushing his low-fat diets for years, and now poses as medical editor for the Huffington Post, wrote that a recent long-term study confirmed that people who ate a high-protein, low-carb diet tended to die sooner than those who focused more on […]

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Time for a Second Look at Fat?

February 25th, 2010 · 1 Comment · food news

A major new study has the mainstream media buzzing with news that saturated fat does not pose a significant risk for heart disease. This is something we’ve known all along, and a finding that Gary Taubes published eight years ago in his monumental analysis of fat science, “Good Calories, Bad Calories.”  Taubes found that the incessant […]

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