Loaded with monounsaturated fat and to the oil’s heart benefits, including heart-healthy phytonutrients, these studies finding that olive oil not only single-seeded fruits are a delectable lowers LDL but also raises HDL. An treat. To stretch your olive allowance (8 large...
Americans order 3 billion pizzas a year. That’s a lot of cheese! According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest: Three slices of Pizza Hut’s pan cheese pizza have 12 grams of saturated fat, about the same as three...
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...
