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There’s also some indication that replacing carbohydrate with plant rather than animal foods has special health benefits. Among approximately eighty thousand women in the Nurses’ Health Study consuming lower-carbohydrate diets, high consumption of vegetable protein and fat was associated with a 30 percent lower risk for heart disease over twenty years, whereas high consumption of animal protein and fat appear to provide no such protection.
One explanation for this finding is that the relative a
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― Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
― Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
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What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and physicians that did pioneering work in those disciplines. It has since resisted all attempts to correct it. As a result, the individuals involved in this research have not only wasted decades of time, and effort, and money but have done incalculable damage along the way. Their beliefs have remain
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― Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
― Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
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