Benefits of Low-Carb Diet - NYTimes on Recent NIH Study

[Ann2]

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/0...src=recpb&_r=0

This New York Times article from September 5, 2014, gets into how many daily grams of carbs, fats, proteins and what kinds are beneficial for weight maintenance and heart health -- compared to the long-time American Heart Association "low-fat" advice (which is now changing).

A few excerpts:

Q. Isn’t the simple answer to eat less processed food, junk food, fast food, candy, sugar, soda, cookies and cakes; eat more fruits and vegetables; and exercise more?

A. ... a wide array of top researchers and nutrition experts ... would agree with you.

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Q. Can you provide some examples of foods that contain trans fats, saturated fat and other fats, so I can figure out what I’m supposed to eat?

A. Trans fats are typically found in highly processed and packaged foods, like cookies, potato chips, pastries and some fried foods. If you pick up a package of food in the grocery store and its list of ingredients contains the words “partially hydrogenated,” then it contains trans fats, which are heavily processed, manufactured oils.

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... Dr. Ronald M. Krauss, who studies atherosclerosis and was the chairman of the American Heart Association’s dietary guidelines committee ... said that the evidence against saturated fat is lacking. “Historically, there’s been so much focus on saturated fat that people like to think it’s the bad fat, that it’s artery clogging, and there’s really no direct data to support that,” he said.

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[Joe Poppa]

Thank you for the link to the NYT article; it was very informative.
There is definitely some good information to chew on (pun intended).

Up to now I thought a "trans fat" was an obese cross-dresser; thank you for clarifying that for me.