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...researchers studied various subgroups, including those with high-fat diets and low-fat diets, and noticed similar correlations of reduced heart disease to fiber intake, Rimm said...
PERHAPS SOME OBSESSIVE PEOPLE WILL simply eat more potato chips if they are fat-free and will still gain weight. But most people will surely substitute the new olestra chips for the old high-fat kind. In any case, let consumers, not the utopian food police at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, make the decision. Over time olestra will contribute to saving many lives that otherwise might be lost due to heart disease and excess weight. BRUCE CHAPMAN, President Discovery Institute Seattle...
...their scientists' and advisory committees' recommendations, Kessler is weighing this one with special care. Olestra could become a staple in the diets of tens of millions of Americans, so it's crucial that it be safe. Moreover, nearly a third of all Americans are obese, and the combination of high-fat diets and extra weight contributes to heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and several types of cancer. If olestra could help drive down fat consumption, it could literally save lives...
...most experts concur. But that does not mean leptin might not be therapeutically useful for many other overweight people. In last week's Science, for example, a team of researchers from the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-LaRoche described how they plumped up lean mice by giving them unrestricted access to high-fat food. Then they administered leptin. The mice responded by cutting their food intake and shedding the extra ounces, suggesting leptin may have value in reversing more typical cases of weight gain...
Despite the efforts of HDS to help students learn about nutrition, many students still complain about menus filled with high-fat entrees with low nutritive value...