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"Almost 49,000 postmenopausal women were enrolled and followed from 1993 to 2005. A low-fat diet made no difference in any important outcome. The true believers were not to be convinced; they remain true believers in the benefit of diet despite these studies because the women were "healthier than anticipated." I am delighted that they were. I am convinced that a low-fat diet is a silly way to seek a longer, healthier life. The Euphemism of the Good Lifestyle Other cohort studies have examined the relationship between leisure-time physical activity and all-cause mortality and cardiac outcomes." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The other group was on a low-fat diet with only 20 percent of calories from fat. After 6 months both groups lost about the same amount of weight. But the real change came after 18 months. By then the average weight loss on the higher-fat diet was roughly 10 pounds compared to the low-fat dieters' loss of about 6 pounds. And after 1 more year the higher-fat diet group had been able to maintain almost all of their weight loss.12 Of course the critical issue here is the type of fat." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Additional research has confirmed that when walnuts are eaten as part of a modified low-fat diet, the result is a more cardioprotective fat profile in diabetic patients than can be achieved by simply lowering the fat content of the diet. In a study published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, all fifty-five study participants with Type-2 diabetes were put on low-fat diets, but the only group to achieve a cardioprotective fat profile were those who ate walnuts (30 grams—about one ounce—per day).70 Other studies have found similar results.71'72'73'74 Dr." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Although not an extremely low-fat diet, consisting of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, seafood and olive oil with limited meat and dairy (mostly cheese), the Mediterranean diet offers a high intake of neutral or beneficial fats found in olive and walnut oils. Low breast cancer rates of Greek and southern Italian women may be attributed to the protective effects of these beneficial omega-3s." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"The simplest way to accomplish the necessary levels of fat reduction is to avoid animal fats in all forms; a vegan diet (vegetarian, without any animal products at all, including dairy or eggs) is naturally a very low-fat diet. Of course, vegetarians, and even strict vegans, can succumb to fat in other forms like french fries, potato chips, and other greasy fried foods." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "This study found that vegetarian women who eat a high-fiber, low-fat diet have lower blood estrogen levels than omnivorous women with low-fiber diets. Once again, we can see why a high-fiber diet might prevent and perhaps reduce uterine fibroids through the estrogen connection. A high-fiber diet may also help relieve some of the bloating and congestion associated with fibroids. By bulking up the stool and regulating bowel movements, some of these symptoms may improve. Some women have a hard time tolerating increased fiber in their diet because of compromised digestive function." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Sample Treatment Plan for Uterine Fibroids Diet • Eat a high-fiber, low-fat diet. • Eat a diet high in whole grains (brown rice, oats, buckwheat, millet, rye, whole wheat). • Eat a diet high in fruits and vegetables. • Eat a diet high in flaxseed, particularly ground flaxseed. • Eat a diet high in legumes, especially soy products, 1 serving per day. • Avoid saturated fats, sugar, caffeine, alcohol, and junk foods." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "One of the best ways to achieve a high-fiber and low-fat diet is the vegan diet. This is a vegetarian diet in which absolutely no animal products are consumed. Strict vegan diets, which are typically very low in saturated fat and dietary cholesterol and high in fiber, can help maintain or achieve desirable blood levels by especially lowering the total cholesterol and the LDL cholesterol.99 Specific fruits or vegetables may also have a particular positive effecr on serum lipids. Raw carrots may have a more potent effect on lowering cholesterol than do oat products." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Eating a low-fat diet will not effectively lower your cholesterol levels. Your liver loves to make cholesterol, perhaps because it plays such a vital role in cell membranes. Thus, even if you do not eat cholesterol, you will have plenty in your body. Also, your body is very effective at absorbing fats. Your intestines are like a sponge for fats. The reason cholesterol levels can rise so easily in your body is that cholesterol is not used as an energy source and therefore does not get broken down as frequently as other fats you eat. The liver is the major site of cholesterol biosynthesis." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Lou was advised to follow a low-fat diet and he duly minimized his fat intake. In doing so, however, he fell into the common pitfall of a replacement diet loaded with processed foods high in trans-fatty acids and sugar. After the switch, Lou's cholesterol decreased to about 210. Nothing wrong with that. But his HDL level also dropped, from 33 to 29—the lowest in his life. We like to see men no lower than 35, and women no lower than 40. Low HDL is a serious risk factor for heart problems." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "It showed that heart attack survivors following a Mediterranean diet were far less likely to experience a second heart attack, unstable angina, heart failure, or cardiac-related death than individuals on the typical low-fat diet endorsed by the American Heart Association. At the study's conclusion, the French researchers found similar cholesterol levels in both groups, but something in the Mediterranean diet clearly protected participants from heart disease." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Because all adrenal and sex hormones are made from cholesterol, a low-fat diet will worsen your hormone balance. What's Good about Cholesterol We have become a nation preoccupied with having low cholesterol. This is unfortunate, as cholesterol itself is not bad, and we women may actually need more than men for good health and long life. Cholesterol is a fat made by your liver that allows all cells to function normally. In addition to making all cell membranes, cholesterol makes all of your adrenal and sex hormones as well as vitamin D and digestive juices (bile) needed to digest fats." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "It examined the incidence of heart disease and cancer rates in women on a low-fat diet, compared with women eating normally. All groups began by eating a diet with fat amounting to 35 to 38 percent of their total calorie intake. The low-fat group was asked to lower their fat intake to 20 percent of their total calories, but this was never achieved. At the end of the first year, the low-fat group was eating fat at a rate of 24 percent of their total calories, and by the sixth year this had expanded to 29 percent." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"A majority of people cannot sustain metabolic energy on a low-fat diet. This is not simply my opinion. Test it for yourself. There are not many people who will feel metabolically normal when less than thirty percent of their total calories come from fat. Low-fat diets are not the answer to weight loss, maintaining normal body weight, or preventing heart disease. There are many breakfast options and many recipes for all kinds of breakfasts readily available on the internet or in numerous publications." - Byron J. Richards, The Leptin Diet: How Fit Is Your Fat? (Get the book.)

"These 25 men were told to consume a low-fat diet that they supplemented with three tablespoons of ground flaxseed per day. They simply sprinkled the flaxseed into their cereal or other favorite food. Reporting in the July 2001 issue of the journal Urology, the researchers observed that after an average of only 34 days of supplementation with the flaxseed, the men had lowered cholesterol and testosterone levels and experienced an increase in the number of dead tumor cells, compared to historic controls. Their levels of prostate specific antigen, used to measure malignant activity, also fell." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"One other little grenade is dropped in the paper's conclusion: Although "a major purported benefit of a low-fat diet is weight loss," a review of the literature failed to turn up any convincing evidence of this proposition. To the contrary, it found "some evidence" that replacing fats in the diet with carbohydrates (as official dietary advice has urged us to do since the 1970s) will lead to weight gain. I have dwelled on this paper because it fairly reflects the current thinking on the increasingly tenuous links between dietary fat and health." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "When the results were announced in 2006, it made front-page news (The New York Times headline said low-fat diet does not cut health risks, study finds) and the cloud of nutritional confusion beneath which Americans endeavor to eat darkened further. Even a cursory examination of the study's methods makes you wonder what, if anything, it proved, either about dietary fat or meat eating. You could argue that, like the Nurses' Healthy Study, all any such trials prove is that changing one component in the diet at a time, and not by much, does not confer a significant health benefit." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "This means that when researchers divide the subject population into groups (typically fifths) to study the impact of, say, a low-fat diet, the quintile eating the lowest-fat diet is not all that low—or so dramatically different from the quintile consuming the highest-fat diet. "Virtually this entire cohort of nurses is consuming a high-risk diet," according to Campbell. That might explain why the Nurses' Study has failed to detect significant benefits for many of the dietary interventions it's looked at." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Indeed, research has shown that over the long term, in studies lasting over 6 months, weight loss was more than three times greater in individuals who consumed a lower-fat, high-fiber diet than those who consumed a low-fat diet alone.63 So high-fiber foods like oats and pumpkin fill you up and keep you satisfied. When you include them in your meals, you'll struggle less with hunger and thus will find it much easier to stick with your weight-loss goals. Fiber also plays a role in reducing the rate at which blood glucose rises following a meal." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"EAT FOODS THAT BALANCE YOUR HORMONES complaint I hear many times a day is "I try to eat a low-calorie, low-fat diet and I exercise regularly, but no matter what I do, those pounds around my middle just won't budge." Does this sound familiar? With an awareness of how certain foods can help to decrease the body's estrogen load, we have developed a diet, moderately high in calories, that allows for protein and healthy fats at every meal. It includes ample portions of "belly-blaster" foods that will reduce or eliminate your extra estrogen load." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"The tinny taste can also signal dry mouth or that you're on an excessively high-protein, low-fat diet. (See Bad Breath, below.) SUPERSENSITIVE TASTE The older you are, the more insensitive you are to taste: foods need to be 3 times sweeter, 4 times more sour, 7 times more bitter, and 11 times more salty for you to taste than when you were younger. SIGNIFICANT FACT Do you tend to find coffee too bitter, desserts too sweet, Mexican food too hot, and broccoli just too nasty to eat? If so, you may be what doctors call a supertaster." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"WEIGHT LOSS: A study conducted by researchers from the State University of Rio de laneiro found that overweight women who added three apples a day to their low-fat diet lost more weight than those women who did not add in apples. BRAIN HEALTH: A 2005 animal study found that eating apple products may help protect against cellular damage attributed to memory loss. In another animal study, this time with mice, researchers added apple juice concentrate to their diet." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Her sense of vibrancy and emotional well-being spills over, motivating her to continue her low-fat diet, adhere to medications, walk daily, volunteer, and avoid smoking. In the end, she loves the life and community she has created, takes very few sick days, and has lived without evidence of heart disease far beyond her doctor's expectations. In this book, you'll meet real people like Ellen, many with inspiring stories of how they implemented the nine practices." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"This method works best in concert with a healthy, balanced lifestyle that includes a low-fat diet and exercise. It will facilitate your weight loss goals but will not replace common sense or compensate for self-destructive behaviors like binge eating. In this case, we will use direct suggestion combined with guided healing imagery to "convince" your subconscious mind to engage only in healthy behaviors that support your weight loss objectives. There are many good diet and exercise plans available." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"I am convinced that a low-fat diet is a silly way to seek a longer, healthier life. The Euphemism of the Good Lifestyle Other cohort studies have examined the relationship between leisure-time physical activity and all-cause mortality and cardiac outcomes. These studies find an inverse relationship between activity and mortality. All of these studies factor in biological risk factors and health-adverse behaviors, such as tobacco abuse. But these studies do not consider ses. Who is likely to spend an hour or two each week exercising for fun?" - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Conversely, a low-fat diet has been shown to reduce the risk of many cancers. An additional benefit of a low-fat diet is the fact that it helps most people maintain a healthy weight. Besides total fat intake, the type of fat in the diet appears to affect cancer risk. There are many different types of dietary fat; some have tumor-promoting properties, and others have tumor-inhibiting properties. Saturated fat has the strongest link to colon and prostate cancer. Some research shows polyunsaturated fat to have a moderately significant relationship to cancer." - Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews, The Green Tea Book (Get the book.)

"In fact, following the low-fat diet advocated by the National Cholesterol Education Program lowers LDL cholesterol as well as treatment with a statin and without the side effects.57 The so-called Mediterranean diet (vegetables, legumes, fruit, cereals, and fish) reduces heart-disease risk and prolongs life.58 Patients with heart disease who followed the Mediterranean diet had a 50% to 70% reduction in recurrent heart attacks.59 These results are twice as good as those of any medication. It's a pretty simple diet to follow over the long term." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "The recent Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study, mentioned on page 78, showed that a low-fat diet did not reduce heart disease.60 The problem with that study is that it lumped all fats together. We now know that some fats are better than others. For example, there are fats in foods like olive oil and fish that actually promote heart health." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "As an example, the generic low-fat diet of the WHI reduced LDL cholesterol by only ten points, whereas a diet high in fruits and vegetables, soy, and nuts, and low in animal fat dropped cholesterol by 30%, a figure that equaled the effects of a statin (33%). A low-carb diet does not prevent heart disease. Look at the doctor who developed it: He died of a heart attack. In addition, women subjects from the Nurses' Health Study (82,802) who had low carbohydrate intake did not experience a reduced occurrence of heart disease. Eating a high-sugar diet increased the risk of heart disease by 90%." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

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