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Article: Busting the low-fat dieting myth.(excerpted from 'The Fat of the Land: The Obesity Epidemic and How Overweight Americans Can Help Themselves')
- Article from:
- Consumers' Research Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 1997
- Author:
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Fat, these days, seems to be nothing but a villain. You see, telling overweight people to eat less and exercise more might send them fleeing for the hills, so the diet book authors and women's magazines searched valiantly for some aspect of eating to blame, some way of telling people they can stuff their faces--and still lose weight. They found such a culprit in fat. It seemed to make sense: the fat you eat becomes the fat you wear. And there even seemed to be some science behind it.
And so a fad was launched. In part the attack on fat is justified because of its extra energy-carrying capacity. After all, a gram of fat does have nine calories compared to only ...
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