More study needed on low-fat diet slam of late (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

More study needed on low-fat diet slam of late
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier - Although we have a vested interest in their contents, most of us have neither the time nor the inclination to read scientific journals. If we did, we d find ourselves immersed in a stew of methodological prose and statistical slang, all resting on

Just when you thought you knew it all . . .
Chicago Tribune - It never fails. Just when you think you've grasped Health 101, the experts pull a 180. We should all now know that low-fat diets don't protect against heart disease, stroke, breast cancer or colon cancer. Two popular arthritis pills, glucosamine and

Fine Print Sends Clear Message: Stay the Course
New York Times - The health news of recent weeks could prompt even a stalwart defender of preventive medicine like me to abandon hope: forget about those hard-to-swallow tablets of calcium and vitamin D3 to stave off osteoporosis, those capsules of glucosamine and

Sidebar: Airlines should charge for extras
MSNBC - From the courtroom to the battlefield, it's the program about justice. Why columnists and some consumer groups need to stop moaning about airlines charging for services we used to get for free. I know. We ve come to accept free meals, drinks

Prison psychologist Frederick Gelbman
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Suzanne Huff, who had the first successful heart transplant in Minnesota, dies The one-time acquaintance hesitated when Fred Gelbmann asked whether the two had met before. The man had been a prisoner undergoing therapy for chemical dependency when

On Pace: The thick and thin of good and bad fats (Low Fat Diets)

On Pace: The thick and thin of good and bad fats
Arizona Daily Star - "If you're just looking at one thing (like reducing total fat intake), you miss the synergy of everything else. It's the whole lifestyle that makes the difference: eating healthy fats, fruits vegetables, fiber and whole grains," Feeney said. "All of

New Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Research Further Supports Raising "Good
Medical News Today - Pfizer said today that new data, involving its medicine in development torcetrapib/atorvastatin, provides important information on the benefit of raising HDL, or "good" cholesterol, while simultaneously lowering LDL, or "bad" cholesterol. These new

The bad research debate
Food Navigator - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

Pepper extract could stop prostate cancer growth (Low Fat Diets)

Pepper extract could stop prostate cancer growth
Nutra Ingredients USA - 3/15/2006 - Capsaicin, the compound that gives red pepper its heat, could stop the spread of prostate cancer, claims a new study. Red chilli pepper has previously been linked to inhibiting the growth of pancreatic cancer cells, and has been suggested

Fine Print Sends Clear Message: Stay the Course
New York Times - The health news of recent weeks could prompt even a stalwart defender of preventive medicine like me to abandon hope: forget about those hard-to-swallow tablets of calcium and vitamin D3 to stave off osteoporosis, those capsules of glucosamine and

Marc K. Siegel : The Flavor Of Obesity
New York Post - E IGHT years ago, at the height of the low-carb-diet fervor, my secretary would sit in front of my patients breakfasting on bacon and eggs with no toast or potatoes. After decades of pasta, fiber and fruit, it seemed strange to see bacon and eggs

Eat what you like, but just a little
Brazoria Facts - A Feb. 8 New York Times article by Gina Kolata declares: Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds. In one of the largest and most extensive studies ever, researchers declared there was no appreciable health benefit between a low-fat

No easy answers on the road to health (Low Fat Diets)

No easy answers on the road to health
Independent Online - Forget the low-fat diet and toss out the calcium pills? Rethink oestrogen in your 50s? Women might get that impression from a trio of confusing studies published recently. But look more closely. The research doesn't change current advice, it just

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

Guidelines, not gospel
Minneapolis Star Tribune - BY TARA PARKER-POPE Wall Street Journal When Bernadine Healy announced plans for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991, the then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised it would be one of the most definitive studies of

New Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Research Further Supports Raising "Good
Medical News Today - Pfizer said today that new data, involving its medicine in development torcetrapib/atorvastatin, provides important information on the benefit of raising HDL, or "good" cholesterol, while simultaneously lowering LDL, or "bad" cholesterol. These new

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge? (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

Getting the smarts about fats
AZCentral.com - Fat is a necessary evil. Gram for gram, oils and solid fats carry twice the number of calories as protein and carbohydrates -- not a comforting thought for the legions of Americans who count calories as they try to lose weight. Even more insulting

Guidelines, not gospel
Minneapolis Star Tribune - BY TARA PARKER-POPE Wall Street Journal When Bernadine Healy announced plans for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991, the then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised it would be one of the most definitive studies of

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim
Heart Info - TUESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Curbing teen obesity could be as easy as restocking the family fridge with low-cal drink alternatives that kids choose themselves, a new study finds. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston had 103 teens pick

The bad research debate
Food Navigator - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

Health & Wellness
Kirkland Courier - A new study has been thrown into the fray of the public debate about dieting and healthy eating. This one is certain to stir up the controversy even more, especially since the researchers involved have already declared it to be the "Rolls-Royce of

Study: Low-fat diet didn't curb disease risk for older women
Arizona Daily Star - Disappointed researchers announced Tuesday that putting older women on a low-fat diet did not reduce their risk of breast cancer, colon cancer or heart disease, as they had hoped. But they added that the study results should not be interpreted as a

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

Trans fat ignored in study that bashed the low-fat diet - Doctors (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Trans fat ignored in study that bashed the low-fat diet - Doctors
San Francisco Gate - Confused by this week's news that a low-fat diet may not help prevent cancer and heart disease after all? Beth Hobson was. "I've been on a low-fat diet for four years now," said the 44-year-old part-time worker at a fitness center in Pasadena, Md

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

High-fiber, low-fat diet benefits kids heart health
Food Navigator - 3/8/2006 - Overweight children kept on a nutritious diet and encouraged to exercise during a two-week period showed a dramatic reduction in cholesterol and insulin levels, according to a study presented last week at the American Heart

Eat what you like, but just a little
Brazoria Facts - A Feb. 8 New York Times article by Gina Kolata declares: Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds. In one of the largest and most extensive studies ever, researchers declared there was no appreciable health benefit between a low-fat

GIVE YOUR MAN A BOD LIKE BOND
Daily Mirror - DETERMINED to leave us shaken and stirred, new Bond star Daniel Craig has transformed himself from a wimp into a hunk to play 007 - and now your man can do it, too! This week, 38-year-old Daniel revealed an enviable six-pack, bulging biceps and a

AH, LIFE IS A BEACH (Low Fat Diets)

AH, LIFE IS A BEACH
New York Post - March 6, 2006 -- With temperatures still near freezing, all we're thinking about is escaping to someplace warm and sunny. Travel & Leisure fuels our fantasies with a special report on beautiful beaches from Antiparos to Zanzibar. Warning: Don't read

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

Health & Wellness
Kirkland Courier - A new study has been thrown into the fray of the public debate about dieting and healthy eating. This one is certain to stir up the controversy even more, especially since the researchers involved have already declared it to be the "Rolls-Royce of

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge? (Low Fat Diet Plans)

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

How to know what research to live by
Traverse City Record-Eagle - Forget the low-fat diet and toss out the calcium pills? Rethink estrogen in your 50s? Women might get that impression from a trio of confusing studies published this month. But look more closely: The research doesn't actually change current advice

Go Ahead, Drink Bacon Grease for Breakfast
LiveScience.com - Two very big and very expensive health studies were published in February to the glee of people everywhere who enjoy drinking bacon grease for breakfast. Maybe you saw the reprints in Cynicism Today . Both studies had a "cheesesteak does your body

What You Should Really Eat
FOX News - We're constantly pummeled with new ways to lose weight. And many of them are right on the money. I'm not talking about popping a pill to get your cortisol levels in check or cutting the latest evil food from your diet. Some things are hogwash. But

More study needed on low-fat diet slam of late (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

More study needed on low-fat diet slam of late
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier - Although we have a vested interest in their contents, most of us have neither the time nor the inclination to read scientific journals. If we did, we d find ourselves immersed in a stew of methodological prose and statistical slang, all resting on

Guidelines, not gospel
Minneapolis Star Tribune - BY TARA PARKER-POPE Wall Street Journal When Bernadine Healy announced plans for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991, the then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised it would be one of the most definitive studies of

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim
Heart Info - TUESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Curbing teen obesity could be as easy as restocking the family fridge with low-cal drink alternatives that kids choose themselves, a new study finds. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston had 103 teens pick

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our
Common Denominator - DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES: The war against unhealthy food just got more complicated again. According to the National Institutes of Health, "reducing fat intake may have small effect on risk of breast cancer, no effect on risk of colorectal

Sidebar: Airlines should charge for extras
MSNBC - From the courtroom to the battlefield, it's the program about justice. Why columnists and some consumer groups need to stop moaning about airlines charging for services we used to get for free. I know. We ve come to accept free meals, drinks

On Pace: The thick and thin of good and bad fats
Arizona Daily Star - "If you're just looking at one thing (like reducing total fat intake), you miss the synergy of everything else. It's the whole lifestyle that makes the difference: eating healthy fats, fruits vegetables, fiber and whole grains," Feeney said. "All of

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

Beth Ashley: Dieting is such a bore
Marin Independent Journal - THE HEADLINE said, "Major study casts doubts on benefit of low-fat diet." What a relief. I've waited a long time for a study like that. After years of trying a low-fat diet - and rarely sticking to it - it's gratifying to know that I haven't missed

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

MY BUM IS TOO FLAT
Daily Mirror - TV presenter Jenny Powell, 37, lives in Manchester with her husband Toby Baxendell, a flooring wholesaler, 40, and five-year-old daughter Connie. HAVE you ever dieted? NO, I use common sense. I do a lot of exercise and I've gone from a size 12 to an

Marc K. Siegel : The Flavor Of Obesity (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Marc K. Siegel : The Flavor Of Obesity
New York Post - E IGHT years ago, at the height of the low-carb-diet fervor, my secretary would sit in front of my patients breakfasting on bacon and eggs with no toast or potatoes. After decades of pasta, fiber and fruit, it seemed strange to see bacon and eggs

Calcium supplement study leaves mixed feelings
Sentinel & Enterprise - The huge health study that found no obvious benefit for women from taking calcium supplements leaves very mixed feelings. On one hand, it indicates that women may have far less power to prevent broken bones and colorectal cancer than previously

Beth Ashley: Dieting is such a bore
Marin Independent Journal - THE HEADLINE said, "Major study casts doubts on benefit of low-fat diet." What a relief. I've waited a long time for a study like that. After years of trying a low-fat diet - and rarely sticking to it - it's gratifying to know that I haven't missed

More study needed on low-fat diet slam of late
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier - Although we have a vested interest in their contents, most of us have neither the time nor the inclination to read scientific journals. If we did, we d find ourselves immersed in a stew of methodological prose and statistical slang, all resting on

GIVE YOUR MAN A BOD LIKE BOND
Daily Mirror - DETERMINED to leave us shaken and stirred, new Bond star Daniel Craig has transformed himself from a wimp into a hunk to play 007 - and now your man can do it, too! This week, 38-year-old Daniel revealed an enviable six-pack, bulging biceps and a

It's enough to make your head spin (Low Fat Diets)

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

Health & Wellness
Kirkland Courier - A new study has been thrown into the fray of the public debate about dieting and healthy eating. This one is certain to stir up the controversy even more, especially since the researchers involved have already declared it to be the "Rolls-Royce of

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s
Center for Science in Public Interest - Media reports on a recent major study on low-fat diets may mislead the public because they suggest that current advice to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer are wrong. In fact, the study tested diet advice that is 10 to 20 years out of date

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

Guidelines, not gospel (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Guidelines, not gospel
Minneapolis Star Tribune - BY TARA PARKER-POPE Wall Street Journal When Bernadine Healy announced plans for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991, the then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised it would be one of the most definitive studies of

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim
Heart Info - TUESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Curbing teen obesity could be as easy as restocking the family fridge with low-cal drink alternatives that kids choose themselves, a new study finds. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston had 103 teens pick

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

Fletcher Resumes Gubernatorial Powers, 'Resting Comfortably'
Wave 3 - (LEXINGTON, Ky.) -- Doctors removed most of a potentially life-threatening blood clot from Gov. Ernie Fletcher's chest and arm, and put him on blood-thinning medication as he continues recovering from gallbladder surgery, his physician said Friday

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

Study: Low-fat diet didn't curb disease risk for older women
Arizona Daily Star - Disappointed researchers announced Tuesday that putting older women on a low-fat diet did not reduce their risk of breast cancer, colon cancer or heart disease, as they had hoped. But they added that the study results should not be interpreted as a

Red Grapefruit May Cut Cholesterol
NewsMax.com - The study done by researchers at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School involved 57 individuals with high cholesterol, all of whom had undergone coronary bypass surgery at least a year earlier. These patients had already unsuccessfully tried a

Getting the smarts about fats (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Getting the smarts about fats
AZCentral.com - Fat is a necessary evil. Gram for gram, oils and solid fats carry twice the number of calories as protein and carbohydrates -- not a comforting thought for the legions of Americans who count calories as they try to lose weight. Even more insulting

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

Guidelines, not gospel
Minneapolis Star Tribune - BY TARA PARKER-POPE Wall Street Journal When Bernadine Healy announced plans for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991, the then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised it would be one of the most definitive studies of

Eat what you like, but just a little
Brazoria Facts - A Feb. 8 New York Times article by Gina Kolata declares: Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds. In one of the largest and most extensive studies ever, researchers declared there was no appreciable health benefit between a low-fat

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

Fine Print Sends Clear Message: Stay the Course
New York Times - The health news of recent weeks could prompt even a stalwart defender of preventive medicine like me to abandon hope: forget about those hard-to-swallow tablets of calcium and vitamin D3 to stave off osteoporosis, those capsules of glucosamine and

Web Letters (Low Fat Diets)

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim
Heart Info - TUESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Curbing teen obesity could be as easy as restocking the family fridge with low-cal drink alternatives that kids choose themselves, a new study finds. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston had 103 teens pick

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

Health & Wellness
Kirkland Courier - A new study has been thrown into the fray of the public debate about dieting and healthy eating. This one is certain to stir up the controversy even more, especially since the researchers involved have already declared it to be the "Rolls-Royce of

Lipitor Demonstrates Improvement In Kidney Function In Patients With (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Lipitor Demonstrates Improvement In Kidney Function In Patients With
Medical News Today - Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and elevated cholesterol who took Pfizer Inc's cholesterol- lowering medicine Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) experienced improved kidney function, and those improvements were significantly greater among

How to know what research to live by
Traverse City Record-Eagle - Forget the low-fat diet and toss out the calcium pills? Rethink estrogen in your 50s? Women might get that impression from a trio of confusing studies published this month. But look more closely: The research doesn't actually change current advice

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

What You Should Really Eat (Low Fat Diets)

What You Should Really Eat
FOX News - We're constantly pummeled with new ways to lose weight. And many of them are right on the money. I'm not talking about popping a pill to get your cortisol levels in check or cutting the latest evil food from your diet. Some things are hogwash. But

Prison psychologist Frederick Gelbman
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Suzanne Huff, who had the first successful heart transplant in Minnesota, dies The one-time acquaintance hesitated when Fred Gelbmann asked whether the two had met before. The man had been a prisoner undergoing therapy for chemical dependency when

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

High-fiber, low-fat diet benefits kids heart health, study
Food Navigator - 3/8/2006 - Overweight children kept on a nutritious diet and encouraged to exercise during a two-week period showed a dramatic reduction in cholesterol and insulin levels, according to a study presented last week at the American Heart

No easy answers on the road to health
Independent Online - Forget the low-fat diet and toss out the calcium pills? Rethink oestrogen in your 50s? Women might get that impression from a trio of confusing studies published recently. But look more closely. The research doesn't change current advice, it just

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

Not milk? (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Not milk?
Pueblo Chieftain - But does it really? Or, as nutrition researchers from Harvard and Cornell universities are radically suggesting: Have we all been duped by the dairy industry s slick, celebrity-driven got milk? advertising campaign? Milk, the sacred cow

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our
Common Denominator - DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES: The war against unhealthy food just got more complicated again. According to the National Institutes of Health, "reducing fat intake may have small effect on risk of breast cancer, no effect on risk of colorectal

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study (Low Fat Diets)

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed on three things: estrogen protects women against heart disease, low-fat diets make you healthier, and taking calcium supplements prevents fractures. But

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

Guidelines, not gospel
Minneapolis Star Tribune - BY TARA PARKER-POPE Wall Street Journal When Bernadine Healy announced plans for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991, the then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised it would be one of the most definitive studies of

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s
Center for Science in Public Interest - Media reports on a recent major study on low-fat diets may mislead the public because they suggest that current advice to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer are wrong. In fact, the study tested diet advice that is 10 to 20 years out of date

The Osgood File
WBZ-AM - Charles Osgood, dubbed CBS' poet-in-residence, anchors and writes The Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on WBZ NewsRadio 1030AM. He also has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. His commentaries have drawn one of the

MY BUM IS TOO FLAT
Daily Mirror - TV presenter Jenny Powell, 37, lives in Manchester with her husband Toby Baxendell, a flooring wholesaler, 40, and five-year-old daughter Connie. HAVE you ever dieted? NO, I use common sense. I do a lot of exercise and I've gone from a size 12 to an

Lipitor Demonstrates Improvement In Kidney Function In Patients With
Medical News Today - Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and elevated cholesterol who took Pfizer Inc's cholesterol- lowering medicine Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) experienced improved kidney function, and those improvements were significantly greater among

Trim the fat, but not the flavor
Chanute Tribune - Americans are finding there is a price to pay for convenience foods and fast food dining that is showing up on their waistlines. The sad truth is that fat makes foods taste good. Butter, cream, whole milk and oil have traditionally added flavor to

High-fiber, low-fat diet benefits kids heart health, study
Food Navigator - 3/8/2006 - Overweight children kept on a nutritious diet and encouraged to exercise during a two-week period showed a dramatic reduction in cholesterol and insulin levels, according to a study presented last week at the American Heart

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

Fine Print Sends Clear Message: Stay the Course
New York Times - The health news of recent weeks could prompt even a stalwart defender of preventive medicine like me to abandon hope: forget about those hard-to-swallow tablets of calcium and vitamin D3 to stave off osteoporosis, those capsules of glucosamine and

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

GIVE YOUR MAN A BOD LIKE BOND
Daily Mirror - DETERMINED to leave us shaken and stirred, new Bond star Daniel Craig has transformed himself from a wimp into a hunk to play 007 - and now your man can do it, too! This week, 38-year-old Daniel revealed an enviable six-pack, bulging biceps and a

Prison psychologist Frederick Gelbman
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Suzanne Huff, who had the first successful heart transplant in Minnesota, dies The one-time acquaintance hesitated when Fred Gelbmann asked whether the two had met before. The man had been a prisoner undergoing therapy for chemical dependency when

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

New Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Research Further Supports Raising "Good
Medical News Today - Pfizer said today that new data, involving its medicine in development torcetrapib/atorvastatin, provides important information on the benefit of raising HDL, or "good" cholesterol, while simultaneously lowering LDL, or "bad" cholesterol. These new

Health & Wellness
Kirkland Courier - A new study has been thrown into the fray of the public debate about dieting and healthy eating. This one is certain to stir up the controversy even more, especially since the researchers involved have already declared it to be the "Rolls-Royce of

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

Fine Print Sends Clear Message: Stay the Course
New York Times - The health news of recent weeks could prompt even a stalwart defender of preventive medicine like me to abandon hope: forget about those hard-to-swallow tablets of calcium and vitamin D3 to stave off osteoporosis, those capsules of glucosamine and

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our
Common Denominator - DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES: The war against unhealthy food just got more complicated again. According to the National Institutes of Health, "reducing fat intake may have small effect on risk of breast cancer, no effect on risk of colorectal

Lipitor Demonstrates Improvement In Kidney Function In Patients With (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Lipitor Demonstrates Improvement In Kidney Function In Patients With
Medical News Today - Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and elevated cholesterol who took Pfizer Inc's cholesterol- lowering medicine Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) experienced improved kidney function, and those improvements were significantly greater among

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

High-fiber, low-fat diet benefits kids heart health, study
Food Navigator - 3/8/2006 - Overweight children kept on a nutritious diet and encouraged to exercise during a two-week period showed a dramatic reduction in cholesterol and insulin levels, according to a study presented last week at the American Heart

Getting the smarts about fats
AZCentral.com - Fat is a necessary evil. Gram for gram, oils and solid fats carry twice the number of calories as protein and carbohydrates -- not a comforting thought for the legions of Americans who count calories as they try to lose weight. Even more insulting

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s (Low Fat Diets)

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s
Center for Science in Public Interest - Media reports on a recent major study on low-fat diets may mislead the public because they suggest that current advice to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer are wrong. In fact, the study tested diet advice that is 10 to 20 years out of date

Just when you thought you knew it all . . .
Chicago Tribune - It never fails. Just when you think you've grasped Health 101, the experts pull a 180. We should all now know that low-fat diets don't protect against heart disease, stroke, breast cancer or colon cancer. Two popular arthritis pills, glucosamine and

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

Lipitor Demonstrates Improvement In Kidney Function In Patients With
Medical News Today - Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and elevated cholesterol who took Pfizer Inc's cholesterol- lowering medicine Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) experienced improved kidney function, and those improvements were significantly greater among

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

Sidebar: Airlines should charge for extras (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Sidebar: Airlines should charge for extras
MSNBC - From the courtroom to the battlefield, it's the program about justice. Why columnists and some consumer groups need to stop moaning about airlines charging for services we used to get for free. I know. We ve come to accept free meals, drinks

New Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Research Further Supports Raising "Good
Medical News Today - Pfizer said today that new data, involving its medicine in development torcetrapib/atorvastatin, provides important information on the benefit of raising HDL, or "good" cholesterol, while simultaneously lowering LDL, or "bad" cholesterol. These new

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

How to know what research to live by
Traverse City Record-Eagle - Forget the low-fat diet and toss out the calcium pills? Rethink estrogen in your 50s? Women might get that impression from a trio of confusing studies published this month. But look more closely: The research doesn't actually change current advice

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

The bad research debate
Nutra Ingredients USA - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

Calcium supplement study leaves mixed feelings
Sentinel & Enterprise - The huge health study that found no obvious benefit for women from taking calcium supplements leaves very mixed feelings. On one hand, it indicates that women may have far less power to prevent broken bones and colorectal cancer than previously

WHI: Startling and controversial
Science Daily - WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Women's Health Initiative took 15 years and cost $725 million to find startlingly results, including the risk of taking hormones during menopause. Billed as one of the most definitive studies of women's health

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our
Common Denominator - DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES: The war against unhealthy food just got more complicated again. According to the National Institutes of Health, "reducing fat intake may have small effect on risk of breast cancer, no effect on risk of colorectal

MY BUM IS TOO FLAT
Daily Mirror - TV presenter Jenny Powell, 37, lives in Manchester with her husband Toby Baxendell, a flooring wholesaler, 40, and five-year-old daughter Connie. HAVE you ever dieted? NO, I use common sense. I do a lot of exercise and I've gone from a size 12 to an

WHI: Startling and controversial
Science Daily - WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Women's Health Initiative took 15 years and cost $725 million to find startlingly results, including the risk of taking hormones during menopause. Billed as one of the most definitive studies of women's health

More study needed on low-fat diet slam of late
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier - Although we have a vested interest in their contents, most of us have neither the time nor the inclination to read scientific journals. If we did, we d find ourselves immersed in a stew of methodological prose and statistical slang, all resting on

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

The Osgood File
WBZ-AM - Charles Osgood, dubbed CBS' poet-in-residence, anchors and writes The Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on WBZ NewsRadio 1030AM. He also has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. His commentaries have drawn one of the

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed on three things: estrogen protects women against heart disease, low-fat diets make you healthier, and taking calcium supplements prevents fractures. But

Trans fat ignored in study that bashed the low-fat diet - Doctors
San Francisco Gate - Confused by this week's news that a low-fat diet may not help prevent cancer and heart disease after all? Beth Hobson was. "I've been on a low-fat diet for four years now," said the 44-year-old part-time worker at a fitness center in Pasadena, Md

Results!
Guam Pacific Daily News - Editor's note: On Feb. 20, Lifestyle reporter Jojo Santo Tomas began a body-cleansing program called "The 21-Day Detox: The Simple Cleanse." He completed the program on March 12 with positive results. Impressed. Fantastic. Amazing. Those were just

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

Just when you thought you knew it all . . . (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Just when you thought you knew it all . . .
Chicago Tribune - It never fails. Just when you think you've grasped Health 101, the experts pull a 180. We should all now know that low-fat diets don't protect against heart disease, stroke, breast cancer or colon cancer. Two popular arthritis pills, glucosamine and

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

Getting the smarts about fats
AZCentral.com - Fat is a necessary evil. Gram for gram, oils and solid fats carry twice the number of calories as protein and carbohydrates -- not a comforting thought for the legions of Americans who count calories as they try to lose weight. Even more insulting

How to know what research to live by
Traverse City Record-Eagle - Forget the low-fat diet and toss out the calcium pills? Rethink estrogen in your 50s? Women might get that impression from a trio of confusing studies published this month. But look more closely: The research doesn't actually change current advice

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol (Low Fat Diets)

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s
Center for Science in Public Interest - Media reports on a recent major study on low-fat diets may mislead the public because they suggest that current advice to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer are wrong. In fact, the study tested diet advice that is 10 to 20 years out of date

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer (Low Fat Diet Plans)

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer
Xagena Medical News - Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet

Fletcher Resumes Gubernatorial Powers, 'Resting Comfortably'
Wave 3 - (LEXINGTON, Ky.) -- Doctors removed most of a potentially life-threatening blood clot from Gov. Ernie Fletcher's chest and arm, and put him on blood-thinning medication as he continues recovering from gallbladder surgery, his physician said Friday

Trans fat ignored in study that bashed the low-fat diet - Doctors
San Francisco Gate - Confused by this week's news that a low-fat diet may not help prevent cancer and heart disease after all? Beth Hobson was. "I've been on a low-fat diet for four years now," said the 44-year-old part-time worker at a fitness center in Pasadena, Md

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

Fletcher Resumes Gubernatorial Powers, 'Resting Comfortably' (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Fletcher Resumes Gubernatorial Powers, 'Resting Comfortably'
Wave 3 - (LEXINGTON, Ky.) -- Doctors removed most of a potentially life-threatening blood clot from Gov. Ernie Fletcher's chest and arm, and put him on blood-thinning medication as he continues recovering from gallbladder surgery, his physician said Friday

Eat what you like, but just a little
Brazoria Facts - A Feb. 8 New York Times article by Gina Kolata declares: Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds. In one of the largest and most extensive studies ever, researchers declared there was no appreciable health benefit between a low-fat

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed on three things: estrogen protects women against heart disease, low-fat diets make you healthier, and taking calcium supplements prevents fractures. But

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer
Xagena Medical News - Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

Community heart health program successful (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

Sidebar: Airlines should charge for extras
MSNBC - From the courtroom to the battlefield, it's the program about justice. Why columnists and some consumer groups need to stop moaning about airlines charging for services we used to get for free. I know. We ve come to accept free meals, drinks

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our (Low Fat Diet Plans)

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our
Common Denominator - DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES: The war against unhealthy food just got more complicated again. According to the National Institutes of Health, "reducing fat intake may have small effect on risk of breast cancer, no effect on risk of colorectal

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim
Heart Info - TUESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Curbing teen obesity could be as easy as restocking the family fridge with low-cal drink alternatives that kids choose themselves, a new study finds. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston had 103 teens pick

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

On Pace: The thick and thin of good and bad fats
Arizona Daily Star - "If you're just looking at one thing (like reducing total fat intake), you miss the synergy of everything else. It's the whole lifestyle that makes the difference: eating healthy fats, fruits vegetables, fiber and whole grains," Feeney said. "All of

High-fiber, low-fat diet benefits kids heart health, study
Food Navigator - 3/8/2006 - Overweight children kept on a nutritious diet and encouraged to exercise during a two-week period showed a dramatic reduction in cholesterol and insulin levels, according to a study presented last week at the American Heart

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim
Heart Info - TUESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Curbing teen obesity could be as easy as restocking the family fridge with low-cal drink alternatives that kids choose themselves, a new study finds. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston had 103 teens pick

Red Grapefruit May Cut Cholesterol (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Red Grapefruit May Cut Cholesterol
NewsMax.com - The study done by researchers at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School involved 57 individuals with high cholesterol, all of whom had undergone coronary bypass surgery at least a year earlier. These patients had already unsuccessfully tried a

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

Do Low-Fat Diets Curb Disease?
ABC News - Feb. 7, 2006 The theory that eating less fat can help prevent disease suffered a setback today with the release of a large-scale study that failed to show such a diet lowered older women's risk of breast and colon cancer, and heart disease. Health

Trans fat ignored in study that bashed the low-fat diet - Doctors
San Francisco Gate - Confused by this week's news that a low-fat diet may not help prevent cancer and heart disease after all? Beth Hobson was. "I've been on a low-fat diet for four years now," said the 44-year-old part-time worker at a fitness center in Pasadena, Md

Sidebar: Airlines should charge for extras
MSNBC - From the courtroom to the battlefield, it's the program about justice. Why columnists and some consumer groups need to stop moaning about airlines charging for services we used to get for free. I know. We ve come to accept free meals, drinks

New Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Research Further Supports Raising "Good (Low Fat Diets)

New Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Research Further Supports Raising "Good
WebWire - Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Clinical Trial Program is the Largest Ever Conducted by Pfizer: 25,000 Patients Enrolled in Studies Underway Around the World Pfizer Clinician: "First Data to Show that there are Important Differences in Raising HDL

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed on three things: estrogen protects women against heart disease, low-fat diets make you healthier, and taking calcium supplements prevents fractures. But

Guidelines, not gospel (Low Fat Diets)

Guidelines, not gospel
Minneapolis Star Tribune - BY TARA PARKER-POPE Wall Street Journal When Bernadine Healy announced plans for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991, the then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised it would be one of the most definitive studies of

Calcium supplement study leaves mixed feelings
Sentinel & Enterprise - The huge health study that found no obvious benefit for women from taking calcium supplements leaves very mixed feelings. On one hand, it indicates that women may have far less power to prevent broken bones and colorectal cancer than previously

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

The bad research debate
Nutra Ingredients USA - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

More study needed on low-fat diet slam of late (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

More study needed on low-fat diet slam of late
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier - Although we have a vested interest in their contents, most of us have neither the time nor the inclination to read scientific journals. If we did, we d find ourselves immersed in a stew of methodological prose and statistical slang, all resting on

Getting the smarts about fats
AZCentral.com - Fat is a necessary evil. Gram for gram, oils and solid fats carry twice the number of calories as protein and carbohydrates -- not a comforting thought for the legions of Americans who count calories as they try to lose weight. Even more insulting

The bad research debate
Nutra Ingredients USA - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

The Osgood File (Low Fat Diets)

The Osgood File
WBZ-AM - Charles Osgood, dubbed CBS' poet-in-residence, anchors and writes The Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on WBZ NewsRadio 1030AM. He also has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. His commentaries have drawn one of the

Trim the fat, but not the flavor
Chanute Tribune - Americans are finding there is a price to pay for convenience foods and fast food dining that is showing up on their waistlines. The sad truth is that fat makes foods taste good. Butter, cream, whole milk and oil have traditionally added flavor to

Personal Health: Fine Print Sends Clear Message: Stay the Course
New York Times - The health news of recent weeks could prompt even a stalwart defender of preventive medicine like me to abandon hope: forget about those hard-to-swallow tablets of calcium and vitamin D3 to stave off osteoporosis, those capsules of glucosamine and

Fletcher Resumes Gubernatorial Powers, 'Resting Comfortably'
Wave 3 - (LEXINGTON, Ky.) -- Doctors removed most of a potentially life-threatening blood clot from Gov. Ernie Fletcher's chest and arm, and put him on blood-thinning medication as he continues recovering from gallbladder surgery, his physician said Friday

Health & Wellness
Kirkland Courier - A new study has been thrown into the fray of the public debate about dieting and healthy eating. This one is certain to stir up the controversy even more, especially since the researchers involved have already declared it to be the "Rolls-Royce of

The bad research debate
Nutra Ingredients USA - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

Web Letters (Low Fat Diets)

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

Guidelines, not gospel
Minneapolis Star Tribune - BY TARA PARKER-POPE Wall Street Journal When Bernadine Healy announced plans for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991, the then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised it would be one of the most definitive studies of

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer
Xagena Medical News - Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s
Center for Science in Public Interest - Media reports on a recent major study on low-fat diets may mislead the public because they suggest that current advice to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer are wrong. In fact, the study tested diet advice that is 10 to 20 years out of date

On Pace: The thick and thin of good and bad fats
Arizona Daily Star - "If you're just looking at one thing (like reducing total fat intake), you miss the synergy of everything else. It's the whole lifestyle that makes the difference: eating healthy fats, fruits vegetables, fiber and whole grains," Feeney said. "All of

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed on three things: estrogen protects women against heart disease, low-fat diets make you healthier, and taking calcium supplements prevents fractures. But

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer
Xagena Medical News - Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet

Eat what you like, but just a little
Brazoria Facts - A Feb. 8 New York Times article by Gina Kolata declares: Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds. In one of the largest and most extensive studies ever, researchers declared there was no appreciable health benefit between a low-fat

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

The Osgood File (Low Fat Diet Plans)

The Osgood File
WBZ-AM - Charles Osgood, dubbed CBS' poet-in-residence, anchors and writes The Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on WBZ NewsRadio 1030AM. He also has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. His commentaries have drawn one of the

Study: Low-fat diet didn't curb disease risk for older women
Arizona Daily Star - Disappointed researchers announced Tuesday that putting older women on a low-fat diet did not reduce their risk of breast cancer, colon cancer or heart disease, as they had hoped. But they added that the study results should not be interpreted as a

Trim the fat, but not the flavor
Chanute Tribune - Americans are finding there is a price to pay for convenience foods and fast food dining that is showing up on their waistlines. The sad truth is that fat makes foods taste good. Butter, cream, whole milk and oil have traditionally added flavor to

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

MY BUM IS TOO FLAT
Daily Mirror - TV presenter Jenny Powell, 37, lives in Manchester with her husband Toby Baxendell, a flooring wholesaler, 40, and five-year-old daughter Connie. HAVE you ever dieted? NO, I use common sense. I do a lot of exercise and I've gone from a size 12 to an

What You Should Really Eat (Low Fat Diet Plans)

What You Should Really Eat
FOX News - We're constantly pummeled with new ways to lose weight. And many of them are right on the money. I'm not talking about popping a pill to get your cortisol levels in check or cutting the latest evil food from your diet. Some things are hogwash. But

New Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Research Further Supports Raising "Good
WebWire - Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Clinical Trial Program is the Largest Ever Conducted by Pfizer: 25,000 Patients Enrolled in Studies Underway Around the World Pfizer Clinician: "First Data to Show that there are Important Differences in Raising HDL

Getting the smarts about fats
AZCentral.com - Fat is a necessary evil. Gram for gram, oils and solid fats carry twice the number of calories as protein and carbohydrates -- not a comforting thought for the legions of Americans who count calories as they try to lose weight. Even more insulting

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim
Heart Info - TUESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Curbing teen obesity could be as easy as restocking the family fridge with low-cal drink alternatives that kids choose themselves, a new study finds. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston had 103 teens pick

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

No More 'Good Girl' (Low Fat Diets)

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

Lipitor Demonstrates Improvement In Kidney Function In Patients With
Medical News Today - Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and elevated cholesterol who took Pfizer Inc's cholesterol- lowering medicine Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) experienced improved kidney function, and those improvements were significantly greater among

What You Should Really Eat
FOX News - We're constantly pummeled with new ways to lose weight. And many of them are right on the money. I'm not talking about popping a pill to get your cortisol levels in check or cutting the latest evil food from your diet. Some things are hogwash. But

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

Do you look your age? (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim
Heart Info - TUESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Curbing teen obesity could be as easy as restocking the family fridge with low-cal drink alternatives that kids choose themselves, a new study finds. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston had 103 teens pick

Science, heck stick with good foods
Contra Costa Times - Warning! A low-fat diet will kill you. Alert! Drinking diet soda leads to obesity. Beware! Counting calories will make you fat and miserable, and probably lead to an early death. These are the sorts of things that drive me certifiably nuts. You go

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

Calcium supplement study leaves mixed feelings
Sentinel & Enterprise - The huge health study that found no obvious benefit for women from taking calcium supplements leaves very mixed feelings. On one hand, it indicates that women may have far less power to prevent broken bones and colorectal cancer than previously

Oats overflowing with benefits
Honolulu Advertiser - Soluble fiber in oats promotes heart health when eaten as part of a daily diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, and insoluble fiber benefits the digestive system. People who eat breakfast regularly are more likely to weigh less than those who

Getting the smarts about fats (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Getting the smarts about fats
AZCentral.com - Fat is a necessary evil. Gram for gram, oils and solid fats carry twice the number of calories as protein and carbohydrates -- not a comforting thought for the legions of Americans who count calories as they try to lose weight. Even more insulting

On Pace: The thick and thin of good and bad fats
Arizona Daily Star - "If you're just looking at one thing (like reducing total fat intake), you miss the synergy of everything else. It's the whole lifestyle that makes the difference: eating healthy fats, fruits vegetables, fiber and whole grains," Feeney said. "All of

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Recent results from a major study have challenged many assumptions about women's health. A look at how the trials got started and what to expect next. Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed

Weigh diet pills carefully
Nashville Tennessean - A new prescription diet drug, rimonabant, is poised to hit the market, and an older one, Orlistat, may soon be going over the counter, but experts say you shouldn't expect too much from the new crop of diet drugs or any diet drugs, for that

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our
Common Denominator - DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES: The war against unhealthy food just got more complicated again. According to the National Institutes of Health, "reducing fat intake may have small effect on risk of breast cancer, no effect on risk of colorectal

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

Weigh diet pills carefully (Low Fat Diets)

Weigh diet pills carefully
Nashville Tennessean - A new prescription diet drug, rimonabant, is poised to hit the market, and an older one, Orlistat, may soon be going over the counter, but experts say you shouldn't expect too much from the new crop of diet drugs or any diet drugs, for that

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

Marc K. Siegel : The Flavor Of Obesity
New York Post - E IGHT years ago, at the height of the low-carb-diet fervor, my secretary would sit in front of my patients breakfasting on bacon and eggs with no toast or potatoes. After decades of pasta, fiber and fruit, it seemed strange to see bacon and eggs

WHI: Startling and controversial
Science Daily - WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Women's Health Initiative took 15 years and cost $725 million to find startlingly results, including the risk of taking hormones during menopause. Billed as one of the most definitive studies of women's health

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Recent results from a major study have challenged many assumptions about women's health. A look at how the trials got started and what to expect next. Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed

Health study rolls on (Low Fat Diets)

Health study rolls on
USA Today - BETHESDA, Md. Yoga instructor Gail La Mar, one of 161,000 women who volunteered for a landmark government-sponsored initiative to study postmenopausal women's health, got right to the point. "This is a legacy, but I like to think of it as maybe a

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Recent results from a major study have challenged many assumptions about women's health. A look at how the trials got started and what to expect next. Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed

Marc K. Siegel : The Flavor Of Obesity
New York Post - E IGHT years ago, at the height of the low-carb-diet fervor, my secretary would sit in front of my patients breakfasting on bacon and eggs with no toast or potatoes. After decades of pasta, fiber and fruit, it seemed strange to see bacon and eggs

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

New Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Research Further Supports Raising "Good (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

New Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Research Further Supports Raising "Good
WebWire - Torcetrapib/Atorvastatin Clinical Trial Program is the Largest Ever Conducted by Pfizer: 25,000 Patients Enrolled in Studies Underway Around the World Pfizer Clinician: "First Data to Show that there are Important Differences in Raising HDL

Low-Cal Drinks Help Teens Stay Trim
Heart Info - TUESDAY, March 7 (HealthDay News) -- Curbing teen obesity could be as easy as restocking the family fridge with low-cal drink alternatives that kids choose themselves, a new study finds. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston had 103 teens pick

Today: Digital house calls? Check your health at home
MSNBC - We all want to be healthy. But if doctors can t give us daily check-ups, how do we know if our lifestyles and eating habits are keeping us healthy or not? Luckily, technology is making it easier for consumers to regularly monitor their own wellness

Guidelines, not gospel
Minneapolis Star Tribune - BY TARA PARKER-POPE Wall Street Journal When Bernadine Healy announced plans for the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) in 1991, the then-director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) promised it would be one of the most definitive studies of

Red Grapefruit May Cut Cholesterol (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Red Grapefruit May Cut Cholesterol
NewsMax.com - The study done by researchers at the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School involved 57 individuals with high cholesterol, all of whom had undergone coronary bypass surgery at least a year earlier. These patients had already unsuccessfully tried a

Science, heck stick with good foods
Contra Costa Times - Warning! A low-fat diet will kill you. Alert! Drinking diet soda leads to obesity. Beware! Counting calories will make you fat and miserable, and probably lead to an early death. These are the sorts of things that drive me certifiably nuts. You go

Personal Health: Fine Print Sends Clear Message: Stay the Course
New York Times - The health news of recent weeks could prompt even a stalwart defender of preventive medicine like me to abandon hope: forget about those hard-to-swallow tablets of calcium and vitamin D3 to stave off osteoporosis, those capsules of glucosamine and

WHI: Startling and controversial
Science Daily - WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Women's Health Initiative took 15 years and cost $725 million to find startlingly results, including the risk of taking hormones during menopause. Billed as one of the most definitive studies of women's health

Do Low-Fat Diets Curb Disease?
ABC News - Feb. 7, 2006 The theory that eating less fat can help prevent disease suffered a setback today with the release of a large-scale study that failed to show such a diet lowered older women's risk of breast and colon cancer, and heart disease. Health

The best is yet to be
US News and World Report - "All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born." These words of William Butler Yeats capture the legacy of the Women's Health Initiative, which has been a transforming force for women's well-being, a humbling experience for medicine, and

The best is yet to be (Low Fat Diets)

The best is yet to be
US News and World Report - "All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born." These words of William Butler Yeats capture the legacy of the Women's Health Initiative, which has been a transforming force for women's well-being, a humbling experience for medicine, and

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Recent results from a major study have challenged many assumptions about women's health. A look at how the trials got started and what to expect next. Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed

The Osgood File
WBZ-AM - Charles Osgood, dubbed CBS' poet-in-residence, anchors and writes The Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on WBZ NewsRadio 1030AM. He also has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. His commentaries have drawn one of the

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

Just when you thought you knew it all . . .
Chicago Tribune - It never fails. Just when you think you've grasped Health 101, the experts pull a 180. We should all now know that low-fat diets don't protect against heart disease, stroke, breast cancer or colon cancer. Two popular arthritis pills, glucosamine and

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our (Low Fat Diets)

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our
Common Denominator - DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES: The war against unhealthy food just got more complicated again. According to the National Institutes of Health, "reducing fat intake may have small effect on risk of breast cancer, no effect on risk of colorectal

Health study rolls on
USA Today - BETHESDA, Md. Yoga instructor Gail La Mar, one of 161,000 women who volunteered for a landmark government-sponsored initiative to study postmenopausal women's health, got right to the point. "This is a legacy, but I like to think of it as maybe a

The Osgood File
WBZ-AM - Charles Osgood, dubbed CBS' poet-in-residence, anchors and writes The Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on WBZ NewsRadio 1030AM. He also has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. His commentaries have drawn one of the

Diet another day
Telegraph - Dr Jana Klauer, one of New York's top nutrition specialists, promises to make you "healthy, vibrant, sexy and slim" based on her experiences of treating the Park Avenue Princesses - with a few models and celebrities thrown in for good measure - who

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

Should we stay with the low-fat diet? (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Should we stay with the low-fat diet?
AZCentral.com - Big news was released recently based on results from a research study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study reported that thousands of women who had changed their diet over an eight-year period (so it was lower in fat and

Study: Low-fat diet didn't curb disease risk for older women
Arizona Daily Star - Disappointed researchers announced Tuesday that putting older women on a low-fat diet did not reduce their risk of breast cancer, colon cancer or heart disease, as they had hoped. But they added that the study results should not be interpreted as a

Prescription for women's health: Comm
Greeley Tribune - AS IF THE advice women get about their health isn't confusing enough, now even the experts are scratching their collective heads. We've been told for years to cut down on fat, take more calcium and avoid hormone therapy if possible. But the Women's

Fletcher Resumes Gubernatorial Powers, 'Resting Comfortably'
Wave 3 - (LEXINGTON, Ky.) -- Doctors removed most of a potentially life-threatening blood clot from Gov. Ernie Fletcher's chest and arm, and put him on blood-thinning medication as he continues recovering from gallbladder surgery, his physician said Friday

Web Letters (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

What You Should Really Eat
FOX News - We're constantly pummeled with new ways to lose weight. And many of them are right on the money. I'm not talking about popping a pill to get your cortisol levels in check or cutting the latest evil food from your diet. Some things are hogwash. But

AH, LIFE IS A BEACH
New York Post - March 6, 2006 -- With temperatures still near freezing, all we're thinking about is escaping to someplace warm and sunny. Travel & Leisure fuels our fantasies with a special report on beautiful beaches from Antiparos to Zanzibar. Warning: Don't read

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

Trim the fat, but not the flavor (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Trim the fat, but not the flavor
Chanute Tribune - Americans are finding there is a price to pay for convenience foods and fast food dining that is showing up on their waistlines. The sad truth is that fat makes foods taste good. Butter, cream, whole milk and oil have traditionally added flavor to

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s
Center for Science in Public Interest - Media reports on a recent major study on low-fat diets may mislead the public because they suggest that current advice to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer are wrong. In fact, the study tested diet advice that is 10 to 20 years out of date

13 Mar Lipitor Demonstrates Improvement in Kidney Function (Low Fat Diets)

13 Mar Lipitor Demonstrates Improvement in Kidney Function
Playfuls - Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and elevated cholesterol who took Pfizer Inc's cholesterol- lowering medicine Lipitor (atorvastatin calcium) experienced improved kidney function, and those improvements were significantly greater among

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

Prescription for women's health: Comm
Greeley Tribune - AS IF THE advice women get about their health isn't confusing enough, now even the experts are scratching their collective heads. We've been told for years to cut down on fat, take more calcium and avoid hormone therapy if possible. But the Women's

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

Do you look your age? (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

High-fiber, low-fat diet benefits kids heart health
Food Navigator - 3/8/2006 - Overweight children kept on a nutritious diet and encouraged to exercise during a two-week period showed a dramatic reduction in cholesterol and insulin levels, according to a study presented last week at the American Heart

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer
Xagena Medical News - Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet

Today: Digital house calls? Check your health at home
MSNBC - We all want to be healthy. But if doctors can t give us daily check-ups, how do we know if our lifestyles and eating habits are keeping us healthy or not? Luckily, technology is making it easier for consumers to regularly monitor their own wellness

How to know what research to live by
Traverse City Record-Eagle - Forget the low-fat diet and toss out the calcium pills? Rethink estrogen in your 50s? Women might get that impression from a trio of confusing studies published this month. But look more closely: The research doesn't actually change current advice

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our
Common Denominator - DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES: The war against unhealthy food just got more complicated again. According to the National Institutes of Health, "reducing fat intake may have small effect on risk of breast cancer, no effect on risk of colorectal

Should we stay with the low-fat diet?
AZCentral.com - Big news was released recently based on results from a research study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The study reported that thousands of women who had changed their diet over an eight-year period (so it was lower in fat and

What You Should Really Eat
FOX News - We're constantly pummeled with new ways to lose weight. And many of them are right on the money. I'm not talking about popping a pill to get your cortisol levels in check or cutting the latest evil food from your diet. Some things are hogwash. But

The bad research debate
Food Navigator - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does? (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

Low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet not associated with weight gain in
Xagena Medical News - In a clinical trial of over 48,000 post-menopausal women, a low-fat diet that includes increased consumption of fruits, vegetables and whole grains is not associated with weight gain over an average of 7.5 years. The prevalence of obesity in the

Today: Digital house calls? Check your health at home
MSNBC - We all want to be healthy. But if doctors can t give us daily check-ups, how do we know if our lifestyles and eating habits are keeping us healthy or not? Luckily, technology is making it easier for consumers to regularly monitor their own wellness

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

The bad research debate (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

The bad research debate
Food Navigator - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

High-fiber, low-fat diet benefits kids heart health
Food Navigator - 3/8/2006 - Overweight children kept on a nutritious diet and encouraged to exercise during a two-week period showed a dramatic reduction in cholesterol and insulin levels, according to a study presented last week at the American Heart

Diet another day
Telegraph - Dr Jana Klauer, one of New York's top nutrition specialists, promises to make you "healthy, vibrant, sexy and slim" based on her experiences of treating the Park Avenue Princesses - with a few models and celebrities thrown in for good measure - who

Health study rolls on
USA Today - BETHESDA, Md. Yoga instructor Gail La Mar, one of 161,000 women who volunteered for a landmark government-sponsored initiative to study postmenopausal women's health, got right to the point. "This is a legacy, but I like to think of it as maybe a

Do you look your age?
Belfast Telegraph - It's such a dirty word, is ageing. Very few of us embrace the process, many deny it and most - save for Brigitte Bardot - try to cheat it in some way. For years I looked much younger than I was, but up until my early twenties I'd led a fairly

Trans fat ignored in study that bashed the low-fat diet - Doctors
San Francisco Gate - Confused by this week's news that a low-fat diet may not help prevent cancer and heart disease after all? Beth Hobson was. "I've been on a low-fat diet for four years now," said the 44-year-old part-time worker at a fitness center in Pasadena, Md

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

The best is yet to be
US News and World Report - "All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born." These words of William Butler Yeats capture the legacy of the Women's Health Initiative, which has been a transforming force for women's well-being, a humbling experience for medicine, and

The bad research debate
Food Navigator - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

Confusion Over Diet-Cancer Trials
Washington Post - Medical research often becomes news. But sometimes the news is made to appear more definitive and dramatic than the research warrants. This series dissects health news to highlight some common study interpretation problems we see as physician

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

Oats overflowing with benefits
Honolulu Advertiser - Soluble fiber in oats promotes heart health when eaten as part of a daily diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, and insoluble fiber benefits the digestive system. People who eat breakfast regularly are more likely to weigh less than those who

On Pace: The thick and thin of good and bad fats
Arizona Daily Star - "If you're just looking at one thing (like reducing total fat intake), you miss the synergy of everything else. It's the whole lifestyle that makes the difference: eating healthy fats, fruits vegetables, fiber and whole grains," Feeney said. "All of

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

The best is yet to be
US News and World Report - "All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born." These words of William Butler Yeats capture the legacy of the Women's Health Initiative, which has been a transforming force for women's well-being, a humbling experience for medicine, and

Oats overflowing with benefits (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Oats overflowing with benefits
Honolulu Advertiser - Soluble fiber in oats promotes heart health when eaten as part of a daily diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, and insoluble fiber benefits the digestive system. People who eat breakfast regularly are more likely to weigh less than those who

Fletcher Resumes Gubernatorial Powers, 'Resting Comfortably'
Wave 3 - (LEXINGTON, Ky.) -- Doctors removed most of a potentially life-threatening blood clot from Gov. Ernie Fletcher's chest and arm, and put him on blood-thinning medication as he continues recovering from gallbladder surgery, his physician said Friday

Prescription for women's health: Comm
Greeley Tribune - AS IF THE advice women get about their health isn't confusing enough, now even the experts are scratching their collective heads. We've been told for years to cut down on fat, take more calcium and avoid hormone therapy if possible. But the Women's

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

Do Low-Fat Diets Curb Disease? (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Do Low-Fat Diets Curb Disease?
ABC News - Feb. 7, 2006 The theory that eating less fat can help prevent disease suffered a setback today with the release of a large-scale study that failed to show such a diet lowered older women's risk of breast and colon cancer, and heart disease. Health

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

Grading women's health
US News and World Report - Marilyn Swope, 75, of Zanesville, Ohio, has worn many hats in her life: first-grade teacher, union president, city mayor, quilt shop owner, and great-grandmother. But one of her most cherished roles was guinea pig. A decade ago, Swope saw an article

What You Should Really Eat
FOX News - We're constantly pummeled with new ways to lose weight. And many of them are right on the money. I'm not talking about popping a pill to get your cortisol levels in check or cutting the latest evil food from your diet. Some things are hogwash. But

Grading women's health (Low Fat Diets)

Grading women's health
US News and World Report - Marilyn Swope, 75, of Zanesville, Ohio, has worn many hats in her life: first-grade teacher, union president, city mayor, quilt shop owner, and great-grandmother. But one of her most cherished roles was guinea pig. A decade ago, Swope saw an article

Eat what you like, but just a little
Brazoria Facts - A Feb. 8 New York Times article by Gina Kolata declares: Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds. In one of the largest and most extensive studies ever, researchers declared there was no appreciable health benefit between a low-fat

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

WHI: Startling and controversial
Science Daily - WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- The U.S. Women's Health Initiative took 15 years and cost $725 million to find startlingly results, including the risk of taking hormones during menopause. Billed as one of the most definitive studies of women's health

How to know what research to live by
Traverse City Record-Eagle - Forget the low-fat diet and toss out the calcium pills? Rethink estrogen in your 50s? Women might get that impression from a trio of confusing studies published this month. But look more closely: The research doesn't actually change current advice

Do Low-Fat Diets Curb Disease? (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Do Low-Fat Diets Curb Disease?
ABC News - Feb. 7, 2006 The theory that eating less fat can help prevent disease suffered a setback today with the release of a large-scale study that failed to show such a diet lowered older women's risk of breast and colon cancer, and heart disease. Health

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

Health study rolls on
USA Today - BETHESDA, Md. Yoga instructor Gail La Mar, one of 161,000 women who volunteered for a landmark government-sponsored initiative to study postmenopausal women's health, got right to the point. "This is a legacy, but I like to think of it as maybe a

Diet another day
Telegraph - Dr Jana Klauer, one of New York's top nutrition specialists, promises to make you "healthy, vibrant, sexy and slim" based on her experiences of treating the Park Avenue Princesses - with a few models and celebrities thrown in for good measure - who

The best is yet to be (Low Fat Diet Plans)

The best is yet to be
US News and World Report - "All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born." These words of William Butler Yeats capture the legacy of the Women's Health Initiative, which has been a transforming force for women's well-being, a humbling experience for medicine, and

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

MY BUM IS TOO FLAT
Daily Mirror - TV presenter Jenny Powell, 37, lives in Manchester with her husband Toby Baxendell, a flooring wholesaler, 40, and five-year-old daughter Connie. HAVE you ever dieted? NO, I use common sense. I do a lot of exercise and I've gone from a size 12 to an

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

How to know what research to live by
Traverse City Record-Eagle - Forget the low-fat diet and toss out the calcium pills? Rethink estrogen in your 50s? Women might get that impression from a trio of confusing studies published this month. But look more closely: The research doesn't actually change current advice

Health study rolls on
USA Today - BETHESDA, Md. Yoga instructor Gail La Mar, one of 161,000 women who volunteered for a landmark government-sponsored initiative to study postmenopausal women's health, got right to the point. "This is a legacy, but I like to think of it as maybe a

No More 'Good Girl' (Low Fat Diets)

No More 'Good Girl'
Washington Post - That's it. I'm not going to be a Good Girl any more. The latest headlines from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have put me over the edge. A low-fat diet -- overrated for cancer protection! Calcium supplements -- in doubt for maintaining bones

The Osgood File
WBZ-AM - Charles Osgood, dubbed CBS' poet-in-residence, anchors and writes The Osgood File, his daily news commentary broadcast on WBZ NewsRadio 1030AM. He also has been anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning since 1994. His commentaries have drawn one of the

Prison psychologist Frederick Gelbman
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Suzanne Huff, who had the first successful heart transplant in Minnesota, dies The one-time acquaintance hesitated when Fred Gelbmann asked whether the two had met before. The man had been a prisoner undergoing therapy for chemical dependency when

Do Low-Fat Diets Curb Disease?
ABC News - Feb. 7, 2006 The theory that eating less fat can help prevent disease suffered a setback today with the release of a large-scale study that failed to show such a diet lowered older women's risk of breast and colon cancer, and heart disease. Health

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

Her Body: Inside the Giant Women's Health Study
MSNBC - Recent results from a major study have challenged many assumptions about women's health. A look at how the trials got started and what to expect next. Feb. 28, 2006 - Until recently, many doctors who specialize in women s health would have agreed

Gubernatorial Powers Transferred Back To Fletcher As He Recovers From (Low Fat Diets)

Gubernatorial Powers Transferred Back To Fletcher As He Recovers From
LEX 18 - (AP) -- Gubernatorial powers have been transferred back to Gov. Ernie Fletcher after doctors removed most of a potentially life-threatening blood clot from his chest and arm, and put him on blood-thinning medication as he continues recovering from

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

MY BUM IS TOO FLAT
Daily Mirror - TV presenter Jenny Powell, 37, lives in Manchester with her husband Toby Baxendell, a flooring wholesaler, 40, and five-year-old daughter Connie. HAVE you ever dieted? NO, I use common sense. I do a lot of exercise and I've gone from a size 12 to an

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Statement of CSPI Nutrition Director Bonnie Liebman on the Women s
Center for Science in Public Interest - Media reports on a recent major study on low-fat diets may mislead the public because they suggest that current advice to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer are wrong. In fact, the study tested diet advice that is 10 to 20 years out of date

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer
Xagena Medical News - Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

Prison psychologist Frederick Gelbman
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Suzanne Huff, who had the first successful heart transplant in Minnesota, dies The one-time acquaintance hesitated when Fred Gelbmann asked whether the two had met before. The man had been a prisoner undergoing therapy for chemical dependency when

Oats overflowing with benefits
Honolulu Advertiser - Soluble fiber in oats promotes heart health when eaten as part of a daily diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, and insoluble fiber benefits the digestive system. People who eat breakfast regularly are more likely to weigh less than those who

Diet another day (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Diet another day
Telegraph - Dr Jana Klauer, one of New York's top nutrition specialists, promises to make you "healthy, vibrant, sexy and slim" based on her experiences of treating the Park Avenue Princesses - with a few models and celebrities thrown in for good measure - who

The best is yet to be
US News and World Report - "All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born." These words of William Butler Yeats capture the legacy of the Women's Health Initiative, which has been a transforming force for women's well-being, a humbling experience for medicine, and

Do Low-Fat Diets Curb Disease?
ABC News - Feb. 7, 2006 The theory that eating less fat can help prevent disease suffered a setback today with the release of a large-scale study that failed to show such a diet lowered older women's risk of breast and colon cancer, and heart disease. Health

Health study rolls on
USA Today - BETHESDA, Md. Yoga instructor Gail La Mar, one of 161,000 women who volunteered for a landmark government-sponsored initiative to study postmenopausal women's health, got right to the point. "This is a legacy, but I like to think of it as maybe a

Calcium supplement study leaves mixed feelings (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Calcium supplement study leaves mixed feelings
Sentinel & Enterprise - The huge health study that found no obvious benefit for women from taking calcium supplements leaves very mixed feelings. On one hand, it indicates that women may have far less power to prevent broken bones and colorectal cancer than previously

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

On Pace: The thick and thin of good and bad fats
Arizona Daily Star - "If you're just looking at one thing (like reducing total fat intake), you miss the synergy of everything else. It's the whole lifestyle that makes the difference: eating healthy fats, fruits vegetables, fiber and whole grains," Feeney said. "All of

Study: Low-fat diet didn't curb disease risk for older women
Arizona Daily Star - Disappointed researchers announced Tuesday that putting older women on a low-fat diet did not reduce their risk of breast cancer, colon cancer or heart disease, as they had hoped. But they added that the study results should not be interpreted as a

Oats overflowing with benefits (Low Fat Weight Loss Diets)

Oats overflowing with benefits
Honolulu Advertiser - Soluble fiber in oats promotes heart health when eaten as part of a daily diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, and insoluble fiber benefits the digestive system. People who eat breakfast regularly are more likely to weigh less than those who

Web Letters
Ashland Daily Tidings - (While web letters do not appear in the print version of the Tidings they are placed here as a courtesy to our readers in order to provide an opportunity for greater and more frequent dialogue amongst members of our community. Web letters follow the

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer
Xagena Medical News - Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet

Medical News Story
News-Medical.Net - It is widely believed by the public that replacing sugars with artificial sweeteners will help reduce calorie (energy) intake and aid weight loss. As a result sales of foods and drinks sweetened with artificially sweeteners are at an all time high

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

Just when you thought you knew it all . . .
Chicago Tribune - It never fails. Just when you think you've grasped Health 101, the experts pull a 180. We should all now know that low-fat diets don't protect against heart disease, stroke, breast cancer or colon cancer. Two popular arthritis pills, glucosamine and

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does? (Low Fat Diet Plans)

If calcium and low-fat diets don t help women s health, what does?
Tacoma News Tribune - What do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast

Do Low-Fat Diets Curb Disease?
ABC News - Feb. 7, 2006 The theory that eating less fat can help prevent disease suffered a setback today with the release of a large-scale study that failed to show such a diet lowered older women's risk of breast and colon cancer, and heart disease. Health

Fletcher Resumes Gubernatorial Powers, 'Resting Comfortably'
Wave 3 - (LEXINGTON, Ky.) -- Doctors removed most of a potentially life-threatening blood clot from Gov. Ernie Fletcher's chest and arm, and put him on blood-thinning medication as he continues recovering from gallbladder surgery, his physician said Friday

Getting the smarts about fats
AZCentral.com - Fat is a necessary evil. Gram for gram, oils and solid fats carry twice the number of calories as protein and carbohydrates -- not a comforting thought for the legions of Americans who count calories as they try to lose weight. Even more insulting

Prison psychologist Frederick Gelbman
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Suzanne Huff, who had the first successful heart transplant in Minnesota, dies The one-time acquaintance hesitated when Fred Gelbmann asked whether the two had met before. The man had been a prisoner undergoing therapy for chemical dependency when

Grading women's health (Low Fat Diet Plans)

Grading women's health
US News and World Report - Marilyn Swope, 75, of Zanesville, Ohio, has worn many hats in her life: first-grade teacher, union president, city mayor, quilt shop owner, and great-grandmother. But one of her most cherished roles was guinea pig. A decade ago, Swope saw an article

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer
Xagena Medical News - Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

Low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet not associated with weight gain in
Xagena Medical News - In a clinical trial of over 48,000 post-menopausal women, a low-fat diet that includes increased consumption of fruits, vegetables and whole grains is not associated with weight gain over an average of 7.5 years. The prevalence of obesity in the

Ped Med: Sweets no treat for kids' health
Science Daily - SAN FRANCISCO, March 9 (UPI) -- Recipe for good health: choose foods heavy on nutrients, light on saturated fats and sugars, add variety, sprinkle with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables, mix with a dash of daily exercise. Eating well -- including

Trim the fat, but not the flavor
Chanute Tribune - Americans are finding there is a price to pay for convenience foods and fast food dining that is showing up on their waistlines. The sad truth is that fat makes foods taste good. Butter, cream, whole milk and oil have traditionally added flavor to

Prescription for women's health: Comm (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

Prescription for women's health: Comm
Greeley Tribune - AS IF THE advice women get about their health isn't confusing enough, now even the experts are scratching their collective heads. We've been told for years to cut down on fat, take more calcium and avoid hormone therapy if possible. But the Women's

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

BIG TEST: Will Heels continue late surge?
Winston-Salem Journal - GREENSBORO - History usually is acted out at one time and written about in another time, after the distinct trees grow into an unmistakable forest. This seems true in war, in peace and even in college basketball. As the ACC Tournament opens this

Today: Digital house calls? Check your health at home
MSNBC - We all want to be healthy. But if doctors can t give us daily check-ups, how do we know if our lifestyles and eating habits are keeping us healthy or not? Luckily, technology is making it easier for consumers to regularly monitor their own wellness

It's enough to make your head spin (Low Fat Diets)

It's enough to make your head spin
Los Angeles Times - "Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds" (New York Times, Feb. 8). "Study Reverses Long-Held Ideas on Calcium's Use" (Los Angeles Daily News, Feb. 16). "Study Revises View of Hormones, Heart Woes" (Chicago Sun-Times, Feb. 20). Just when

Noni Juice Might Lower Smokers' Cholesterol
ABC News - Select a Health Topic ADD & ADHD Allergy Alternative Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Arthritis Asthma Body Aches and Pains Breast Cancer Cancer Awareness Cardio Health Children's Health Colon Cancer Contraception COPD/Emphysema Dental Health Diabetes

Sonoma Plan Adds Flavor to Dull Diets
Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles - Dr. Connie Guttersen is on a mission to make America smaller. Well, perhaps not geographically, but at least to shrink the size of the average American. Scientific studies have proven that weight-loss diets that are based on moderate amounts of the

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

The bad research debate
Food Navigator - 2/27/2006 - The dust is settling on the WHI trial. First came the news that low-fat diets didn t reduce the risk of breast or colorectal cancer or cardiovascular disease, then came news that vitamin D and calcium supplements don t protect against

High-fiber, low-fat diet benefits kids heart health
Food Navigator - 3/8/2006 - Overweight children kept on a nutritious diet and encouraged to exercise during a two-week period showed a dramatic reduction in cholesterol and insulin levels, according to a study presented last week at the American Heart

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our (Low Fat Diets)

The Common Denominator's restaurant, food & travel editor asks our
Common Denominator - DISPATCHES FROM THE FRONT LINES: The war against unhealthy food just got more complicated again. According to the National Institutes of Health, "reducing fat intake may have small effect on risk of breast cancer, no effect on risk of colorectal

Diet study confusion will not change habits
Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - New studies indicating a low-fat diet does not reduce the risk of cancer and calcium supplements do little to prevent broken bones are unlikely to change consumers' habits and may only add to confusion about the link between

Prescription for women's health: Comm
Greeley Tribune - AS IF THE advice women get about their health isn't confusing enough, now even the experts are scratching their collective heads. We've been told for years to cut down on fat, take more calcium and avoid hormone therapy if possible. But the Women's

Community heart health program successful
Science Daily - LIMBURG, Netherlands, March 2 (UPI) -- A 5-year community health plan in the Netherlands has been deemed successful, with improvement found in three major risk factors for heart disease. The cardiovascular disease prevention plan targeting residents

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer (Low Fat Weight Loss Diet)

No effect from reducing total dietary fat on the risk of breast cancer
Xagena Medical News - Despite that a low-fat diet introduced in the middle-age years doesn't reduce the risk of breast cancer, heart disease, stroke or colon cancer, one of the researchers says people still need to focus on the types of fat they eat. The national diet

New Survey Shows Cardiologists Aware of Life-Saving Diet, Yet Failing
AnimalConcerns.org - WASHINGTON A pilot survey of cardiologists reveals that most know about the life-saving potential of a truly low-fat vegetarian diet for heart patients, but fail to recommend the diet in the mistaken belief that patients will not comply. Published

On the Side | The big, fat Krimpet debuts amid new dietary questions
Philadelphia Inquirer - Let us consider the nick-of-time introduction of a new Philadelphia delicacy - the twice-iced Doublicious Butterscotch Krimpet. Well, it is not entirely new. It is at heart (if Krimpets have hearts) an ol', original Butterscotch Krimpet. It is just

Study: Switching to Low-Fat Diet Shows No Clear Benefit
Daily News Central - Disappointed researchers announced Tuesday that putting older women on a low-fat diet did not reduce their risk of breast cancer, colon cancer or heart disease, as they had hoped. But they quickly added that the study results should not be