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The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet reduces the risk of getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet has no effect. The $415 million federal study involved nearly 49,000 women ages 50 to 79 who were followed for eight years. In the end, those assigned to a low-fat diet had the same rates of breast cancer, colon cancer, heart attacks and strokes as those who ate whatever they pleased, researchers are reporting today.
"These studies are revolutionary," said Dr. Jules Hirsch, physician in chief emeritus at Rockefeller University in New York City, who has spent a lifetime studying the effects of diets on weight and health. "They should put a stop to this era of thinking that we have all the information we need to change the whole national diet and make everybody healthy."
See you later, I'm off to the Krispy Kreme, before the NOW HOT neon sign is turned off.
6 Comments:
Now sistas da study was about fat, not sugar; you may not get cancer, but the donuts will still make yo ass fat and rot yo teeth out. I read somewhere that some o deez mega-churches in the west and south have krispy creme donut stands outside the church; that's why dooz rednecks all so damn fat. Dat church pew becomin' swayback from all dem fat lard-asses. Shiiiit!
posted by Anonymous, at
2/08/2006 12:25 PM
Put where are the studies about the impact of a low-fat diet on the risk of thunder thighs or blubber butts? It may not cause colon cancer, but I'm pretty sure that a diet too high in fat is a contributing factor in a host of other problems, least of all the epidemic of girl love handles spilling out of low-rise jeans. Besides, as someone who eats organic, vegetarian food, Krispy Kreme strikes me as an offense against all that is natural.
Or before another study comes out refuting this one!
posted by Anonymous, at
2/08/2006 4:18 PM
But this doesn't give one license to binge on junk food. The biggest culprits are food that have saturated fats such as red meat and a lot of processed foods and dairy products, cakes and candies. I cut them out for more than a year and my health has never been better with a very low cholesterol count of 175 which used to be 250.
The Holy Grail of Donuts...the Low Fat Donut Forget the ridiculous hype on the new zero trans fat donuts out there. You should do a story about Holey Donuts!, based out of Brooklyn. They are Ultra Low Fat, Zero Trans Fats and FABULOUS. Zone Diet even buys from them. http://www.holeydonuts.net/
posted by Anonymous, at
1/23/2007 7:48 AM
