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Article: Low-Fat Foods May Not Lead to Weight Loss; Researchers Report That Consumers Make Up the Difference in Extra Calories
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 5, 1996
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Eating reduced-fat foods is not always a nutritional bargain.
Americans who consume these foods to slim down may unknowingly
make up the difference by chowing down on extra carbohydrates -- and
extra calories -- according to research presented last week at a
meeting in Arlington sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences.
"In many cases those who eat the most reduced-fat and nonfat
foods actually consume more calories than the people who don't use
such products at all," said James T. Heimbach of TAS Inc., the
international regulatory and food safety consulting firm that
conducted the study. The report was based on five U.S. Department of
Agriculture food surveys involving more ...