It would be a huge misinterpretation to believe that it doesn't matter what we eat to prevent heart disease and cancer.
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This does very strongly refute the dominant view in the 1990s, that reducing the amount of fat in the diet would spontaneously lead to weight loss. What's happened to the American diet during this low-fat period is, people were given the idea that if they reduced calories from fat, weight would go down. Clearly, that has not happened.
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The experts are at odds with each other over some aspects of weight control. When the U. S. Department of Agriculture released their new food pyramid in April, many critics cheered that, at last, better guidance was being given to consumers on making healthy food choices. Yet even the new pyramid which makes more recommendations about quantities of food, exercise, and allows for individual differencesamong other thingshas also been criticized as insufficient. It's clear that we need to rebuild the pyramid from the ground up, ... not just tip it on its side and dress it up with new colors.
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A lost opportunity, ... only the very most motivated people will go to the Web and dig into this information.
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