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Not only do Fatburner dieters appear to lose more weight in half the time of the average high-protein dieters, but also they feel better and have none of the risks of bone63 or kidney problems64 or cancer associated with high-protein diets, or the risks of dry skin and essential fat deficiency associated with low-fat diets. _How to lose weight without suffering_ • Follow a low- to medium-calorie diet (1,000 to 1,500 calories), high in fiber, low in fat, and balanced for fat, protein, and carbohydrate.

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Low-fat diets do not decrease estrogen production but do increase estrogen excretion through the urine. low-fat diets also tend to include a lot of fruits and vegetables, many of which contain compounds that protect against cancer. Note, however, that some kinds of fat are cancer protective. Omega-3 essential fatty acids from fish oils have been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer. Eating two to three servings a week of salmon, tuna, sardines, or other cold-water fish, or taking fish-oil capsules confers this benefit.

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Statement (d) is simply wrong. low-fat diets could potentially increase the risk of breast cancer, particularly if your diet is high in sugar and leads to weight gain. Omega-3 fat from flaxseed and fish, and monounsaturated fats (found in olive oil, avocados, and nuts), reduce the risk of breast cancer, so it's important to include these sources of healthy fat in your diet. If you answered all of these questions correctly, you are one of the few people in this country who isn't confused by the many myths of modern medicine. You may not even need this book.

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The absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, and phy to chemicals (health-promoting substances found in plant foods—see pages 55-59) may be compromised in very low-fat diets. Studies indicate that there are some nutrients whose absorption is enhanced by moderate amounts of fat in the diet: fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamin E, and substances called carotenoids, which form vitamin A), some minerals, and phytochemicals. Maximizing the absorption of these protective dietary constituents is especially important for people with chronic diseases such as diabetes. 3.

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It is also known from carcinogenicity experiments that high total fat and high-calorie diets increase the incidence of cancers in animals fed known carcinogens, and that low-fat diets seem to protect against cancer. The apparent protective effect of low-fat diets may, however, merely reflect a reduced intake of the carcinogenic contaminants found in animal fats. Many claims have been made for the protective effect of "dietary fiber," although this term describes a variety of different foods with substantially different properties.

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Many high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets may be counterproductive to weight control because they markedly increase postprandial hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia (excess serum insulin)" (Brand-Miller et al. 2002). In a 1970 study described in the Journal of Endocrinology, a male physician and female volunteer were given a glucose intravenous infusion for 10 continuous hours with a high-dose avocado extract infusion being administered after 70 minutes. The intravenous avocado extract induced an immediate drop in serum insulin and a reversible spike in blood glucose.

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Good Proteins Protein has been maligned over the years due to the tremendous focus on low-fat diets. Since proteins contain most of the "bad" fats, we have thrown the protein out with the fat. People have been led to believe that a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet is the healthiest diet we can eat. Yet the amino acids found only in proteins are essential for all of our body's functions, especially our immune system. We must choose good protein sources.

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I also tried some of the low-fat diets, the Heart Association-type programs. I always lost some weight, but I always gained it back. I'm 73 now, and I was 68 when I started with the South Beach Diet. I had been a heavy smoker and then I gave it up, which is how I happened to put on all that weight. I wasn't a big sweets eater. But I loved all the rest. Bread three times a day, with every meal. And potatoes. Rice. Pasta. Of course, meat and so on—big, heavy meals. Once my weight hit its peak, I started getting some other problems, too. One day we found that I had diabetes.

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Even on low-fat diets, we need at least 10 percent of our calories from fat; I believe that extremely low-fat diets can be dangerous when followed very long term, say over two years. My experience is that many people feel satisfied and can sustain a diet with about 20 percent of their calories coming from fat. This is what we end up with when following the precepts of my Health-Supportive Whole-Foods Diet.* The secret to the healthful use of fats, of course, is to know which fats to use.

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By contrast, less-developed countries with high-carbohydrate, low-fat diets had lots of fiber in their carbs. In the 1990s, the Harvard School of Nutrition, under the guidance of Dr. Walter C. Willet, looked at the correlation between fiber and heart attack rates. The finding: When people eat high-fiber carbs such as vegetables and unprocessed grains and flour, the danger of most dietary fat becomes minimal. Only saturated fat remains a predictor of heart attacks, and even then not a very impressive one.

In the past, I had been on plenty of low-fat diets, and i always felt hungry. On this diet, though, the rule is that if you feel hungry, you eat. When you sit down to a meal, you're supposed to eat until you're satisfied. Salty and starchy things were always my weakness, much more than sweets—potato chips, french fries, popcorn. I would go to Target and the first thing I bought was a large bag of popcorn, and by the time I was through shopping it was finished. And I never went to a movie without having buttered popcorn—never, ever, ever.

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Many individuals following very low-fat diets become highly "fat phobic," fanatically avoiding all foods that contain fat. In so doing, they may shun nutritious, whole plant foods such as nuts, seeds, avocados, olives, and even full-fat soy products such as tofu. These foods are among our richest sources of vitamin E and selenium (which protect against tissue damage), other trace minerals, and a host of protective phytochemicals (page 55), and have all been shown to be protective to health. 4.

Two major drawbacks of the very low-fat diets are that they may reduce the absorption of protective vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals, and they may provide insufficient essential fatty acids. In addition, nutrient-dense, higher-fat plant foods such as nuts, seeds, avocados, and olives are often unnecessarily eliminated. These foods are important sources of trace minerals and the antioxidant vitamin E.

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Low-fat diets usually translate into high-calorie, high-carbohydrate diets that, again, scrimp on protein, vitamins, and minerals. Being overweight is the number one risk factor for developing adult-onset diabetes, and overweight children and teenagers now account for half of all new diagnoses of diabetes. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes among children has increased by an estimated fifteen to twenty-five times since 1980. Being overweight also increases the risk of hypertension, heart disease, gallstones, colon cancer, and (in men) stroke.

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Unexpectedly, it has been found that low-fat diets may quell the risk of reoccurrence in this group. In fact the typical Japanese breast cancer patient has a much better survival rate than her American counterpart. But American women with breast cancer avoid reoccurrence more often when they are on low-fat diets. Recently a number of studies have contradicted the association between high fat diets and breast cancer. These scientists agree that breast cancer is more directly related to estrogen levels, which are directly and indirectly affected by excess dietary fats.

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Very low-fat diets may provide insufficient long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, a type of polyunsaturated fat found in fish oil, flax seeds, walnuts, and green leafy vegetables. (See pages 71-75 for more information.) This is no minor detail. Omega-3 fatty acids have been shown to provide significant protection against heart disease. They lower triglycerides, decrease blood-clotting tendency, and help to prevent irregular heart beat.

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Let's first look at high-protein diets versus conventional low-calorie, low-fat diets. Two trials carried out at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center showed that after six months, those on the high-protein diets had lost between 10 lb. and 12.7 lb., versus 4 lb. to 4.5 lb. on a conventional low-fat diet. However, after twelve months there was no significant difference in weight loss in either diet in either study.60 Why do Atkins-type diets lead to short-term weight loss?

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They decided to find out how our closest biological cousins, monkeys, behave when fed low-fat diets that lower their cholesterol. They studied thirty monkeys for two years. Half the monkeys ate low-fat diets—less than 30 percent of calories from fat; consequently, their cholesterol was low. The other monkeys ate a high-fat diet that tripled their cholesterol. Remarkably, the monkeys with low cholesterol were 50 percent more likely to display violent behavior—grabbing, biting, shoving and tormenting their neighbors. "We have no idea what the mechanism might be," says Dr. Manuck.

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Even on low-fat diets, we need at least 10 percent of our calories from fat; I believe that extremely low-fat diets can be dangerous when followed very long term, say over two years. My experience is that many people feel satisfied and can sustain a diet with about 20 percent of their calories coming from fat. This is what we end up with when following the precepts of my Health-Supportive Whole-Foods Diet.* The secret to the healthful use of fats, of course, is to know which fats to use.

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Before European contact, Aboriginals were nomadic hunter-gatherers with active lifestyles and low-fat diets. But when they adopted Western lifestyles, they became especially vulnerable to obesity and diabetes. Research reported in the journal Ethnicity and Disease revealed that when a group of ten diabetic Aboriginals reverted to traditional lifestyles for seven weeks (eating foods such as kangaroo meat, which is lean, and exercising daily) they lost an average of 2.2 pounds per week and their fasting glucose and insulin levels decreased by about 50 percent.

Countries with low-fat diets have lower prostate cancer rates than junk-food havens like the United States, and the American Cancer Society says that men who eat high-fat diets, particularly diets high in saturated fats, are at greater risk of prostate cancer. Inactivity also may increase a man's risk of the disease. A Harvard University study of more than seventeen thousand men found that those who burned 4,000 or more calories a week in activities such as stair climbing and walking had a prostate cancer risk that was 47 to 88 percent lower than men who burned less than 1,000 calories a week.

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To put ourselves and our children on a healthier track, researchers say, we need to switch to low-fat diets. This means not only eating lower fat foods but also getting more fruits, vegetables, legumes, and other healthful foods. A Weighty Issue The key to losing weight is cutting the number of calories in our diets. And the easiest way to cut calories is to eat less fat, says Judy Dodd, R.D., of Pittsburgh, a nutrition education consultant and former president of the American Dietetic Association. Gram for gram, fat packs more energy, which is measured in calories, than any other nutrient.

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They went on very low-fat diets. They learned yoga and meditated. They prepared food and ate together. And once a week they met to share their concerns about their health and their lives. The results, after a year, were remarkable. These people looked years younger and felt much better. Ornish's elegant scans show more blood flow coming to their hearts, while coronary arteries that were almost one hundred percent closed were now open enough to permit near normal functioning.

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If people who go on low-fat diets don't realize this and learn to pay attention to their hunger, they'll start Cycling as a result. When you eat a lower-fat diet, you need to eat more food, sometimes more often. The lighter food you eat won't last as long in your digestive tract, so you'll get hungry more often and naturally need to eat more often too, in order to prevent a famine. So eat low-fat, but stay tuned to your body. It knows what it needs and will tell you if you keep listening.

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High-fiber, low-fat diets generally promote weight loss, which in turn lessens the severity of Type II diabetes. Diet and Diabetes: One Man's Victory If you're diabetic and could use an upbeat story to lift your spirits, here it is. This inspiring tale, written by James W. Anderson, M.D., was published in Diabetes and Nutrition News. No one knows how to turn diabetes around with nutrition as Dr. Anderson. His patient's story speaks for itself!

Diabetes experts have spent years trying to understand how low-fat diets and fiber-rich diets work their wonders. At this point, it looks like there are several explanations. • Diets high in starches (not sugars) help the body process glucose more efficiently • Foods rich in soluble fiber slow the absorption of food into the blood. This helps to prevent sharp swings in blood sugar levels. • Burning sugar is easier when the diet is low in fat because the body doesn't have to channel as much effort into metabolizing fats. So there is more freedom to concentrate on processing carbohydrates.

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People on low-fat diets should pay special attention to this. A diet too low in fats can lead to an increased risk of cancer and aging. Omega-6 fatty acids can be found in flaxseed, sesame, pumpkin, and safflower oils. Omega-3 fatty acids are found in fish oil capsules or fish. Both are needed. EFAs help prevent or treat vaginal dryness. Vitamin D. The best source of vitamin D is sunlight. It can also be taken in supplementation (400-600 IU per day), although caution should be taken not to get too much of this vitamin. Another source of vitamin D is salmon oil.

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Their goal was to see whether low-fat diets promoted weight loss better than diets containing moderate to high levels of fat. After two weeks on a low-fat diet, their female subjects each lost a pound; on higher-fat diets their weight either increased or stayed the same. That means foods such as barley rated best!. In addition to its low fat and sodium content, pearled barley also has respectable levels of fiber and protein. Of course, unblocked (unhulled) barley has more fiber than pearled. Its very heavy texture, however, doesn't appeal to most palates.

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They may not be the only ones: In their zeal to eat low-fat diets, more people than ever are shunning red meat, and red meat is a solid source of this vital nutrient. Another potential problem: Increased calcium intake, recommended to prevent osteoporosis, removes some zinc from the body, says Dr. Wood. The heavy plant emphasis of some vegetarian diets can interfere with zinc absorption, as can alcoholism, oral penicillin therapy and diuretics (water pills). Low levels of vitamin B6 have also been found to reduce zinc absorption.

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Low-fat diets also tend to include a lot of fruits and vegetables, many of which contain compounds that protect against cancer. Note, however, that some kinds of fat are cancer protective. Omega-3 essential fatty acids from fish oils have been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer. Eating two to three servings a week of salmon, tuna, sardines, or other cold-water fish, or taking fish-oil capsules confers this benefit. In laboratory studies, cancer cells grown in the same test tube as healthy cells without essential fatty acids overtake the healthy cells.

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