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Unlocking the Vault: Is Olive Oil Heart-Healthy?
Olive oil may positively impact blood lipid levels, but some evidence shows that excess amounts in the diet may cause the progression of atherosclerosis.
Unlocking the Vault: Beans Versus Meat
If increasing satiety per calorie is the goal, that goal is likely to be met by increasing dietary fiber than by increasing dietary protein...
For a number of years, there has been a growing body of research (including data from randomized controlled clinical trials) that has been suggesting that diets higher in protein may aid weight loss and weight control.[1]
Cracking the Vault: Pleasure versus Hunger Eating
The research on cravings suggests that eating for pleasure versus hunger may drive us to crave highly palatable foods.
Penn's Potato Diet
Hopefully, Penn Jillette's experience will help make the naïve notion that potatoes somehow promote obesity and type 2 diabetes because of their high glycemic index disappear.
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