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Article: Sticking to the ultimate New Year's resolution: carbs are good and fat can be our friend if we would just learn to make nice with these vital macronutrients.(Medicine & Health)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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THERE HAVE BEEN the cabbage soup, grapefruit, low fat/no fat, and high-protein diets, as well as calorie-counting and no-calorie-counting programs--and let us not forget the do-note-at-late-at-night regimen and ... well, you get the idea. Americans always are looking for the magic bullet to weight loss. After being a clinical nutritionist for more than 20 years and having worked with thousands of clients, I can tell you that no magic bullet exists.
Although the U.S. is one of the richest and most technologically advanced countries in the world, there is a serious problem. Since the early 1980s, Americans increasingly have grown larger. We are eight pounds ...