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Article: health; THE SKINNY ON LOW FAT; About 500 Minnesota women spent years putting the low-fat diet to the test. In the end they found it's what kind of fat, not how much, that counts.(SOURCE)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- February 15, 2006
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Byline: Josephine Marcotty; Staff Writer
CORRECTION PUBLISHED 02/15/06: In this story, the location of the Minnesota Heart Clinic is misidentified. It is in Edina.
For 12 years Jean Costello, 74, has religiously counted fat grams. She ate her mashed potatoes plain while she watched her husband top his with a great big pat of butter. And she is sick to death of skinless chicken. She was one of nearly 50,000 women nationwide who, for the sake of medical research, volunteered to try to stick to a diet made up of only 20 percent fat to see if it reduced heart disease, stroke and cancer. Last week the study was made public. To her amazement, it said that a ...