Nutrition labels list total fat content, but that number may not tell you everything you want to know about the food. For instance, you should take into account: Percentage of calories from fat. Most labels don’t tell you this number. To...
As you read in Chapter 1, a shocking number of children are overweight and obese, and doctors are seeing increasingly high levels of cholesterol in children, even those with no family history of high cholesterol.To help your kids maintain a healthy...
Weight-loss formula is one of the simplest in mathematics: Consume fewer ories than you burn, or burn more than you consume. It’s really all a numbers game. If you need 2,000 calories a day to maintain your current weight but you...
Perhaps no other diet has generated as much discussion and controversy as the one created by Robert C. Atkins, M.D., more than 30 years ago. It strictly limits carbohydrates (including fruits and vegetables) and emphasizes protein and fats, including such high-fat,...
You’ll be eating less fat on the Pian, but there’s no need to cut all of it—in fact, doing so may be counterproductive. In a study from the University of Washington, researchers put 444 men with high LDL on various diets involving...
A moderate amount of fat (about 25 percent of calories), mostly in the form of healthy fats from fish, nuts, and olive and canola oils. A moderate amount of lean protein (up to 20 percent of calories), from fish, beans, lean...
Changing ingrained habits is one of the most difficult things to do. And the changes probably feel most overwhelming in the eating arena. But relax. We don’t expect you to institute them all at once. Just doing one new thing at...
the typical American eats out four times a week. Think that sounds too high? If you include everything from the muffin and coffee you grab on your way to work to the lunch you eat in the company cafeteria to stops...
By now the “French Paradox” is old news. The phrase refers to the fact that despite eating lots of saturated fat and cholesterol (read: cheese, butter, and cream), the French have a relatively low incidence of heart disease. A major reason,...
The diet described thus far in this chapter will help you lower your LDL. But certain foods can also make the LDL you do have less dangerous. As we talked about in Chapter 1, LDL is a bigger threat when it...
