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"New Findings On Diet And Fat Spark Rejoicing Among The Hefty"

By Jowlie Bigaman
Dietary Journal Staff Writer
February 8, 2006

"This confirms what I've been saying for years - fat is good for
you," said Lena Lumford, a chef in Reading, Pa. "I weigh 422 pounds,"
said Lumford, 37, "and I never believed all that baloney. Now I'm
getting reacquainted with my comfort foods."

Lumford was among a number of overweight Americans interviewed in
the wake of a new study by the National Heart, Lung and Blood
Institute that indicates that low-fat diets do not protect women from
heart attacks, strokes or breast and colon cancer. The 8-year
study's findings are believed to apply to men as well as women,
according to Ivan Hubitcukakov of the Institute. The study results
seem to contradict accepted dietary precepts that have guided American
for decades.

In an assisted living facility in Frenulum, Ariz., Aggie Moundess,
58, said she's preparing to kiss her low-fat diet goodbye.

"I'm going back to my favorite foods," she told a reporter. "That
means bacon, eggs, ham, and hash browns - with gravy!"

The 5' 2" Moundess, a retired cab dispatcher who admits to 270
pounds, added that she never succeeded in keeping off pounds shed
through numerous diets.

"Some of us are naturally heavy," she insisted, adjusting her
walker, "and it's very stressful to be constantly dieting while our
friends eat what they please. After all, you only live once."

Theo Broadbeam, 41, who works at a Dunkin Donuts shop in Mesa,
Ariz., said he ignores stares from customers when he serves up honey
dips and cream-filled pastry.

"I figure I'm a good adverti*****t for my company's products. I
weigh about 300 pounds, but on my 5-foot, ten-inch body, I don't
think I come across as obese," he chuckled. "Just a healthy-lookin'
good ol' boy."

Jenni Waite, who works in the cafeteria at First Regional Hospital
in Springfield, Ill., said she never put much trust in low-fat diets.

My grandmother, who lived to be 94, was always overweight," said the
33-year-old, 230-pound Waite, "and she never was sick a day in her
life until she died in her sleep. And her blood pressure was like 200
over 170, her cholesterol was through the roof, and she weighed about
250 [pounds]!"

Doctor Thoran Scales, a food specialist, is introducing a
"Healthy-Fat Diet" he's developed at the University of South
Delaware Hospital. It allows liberal consumption of fat, but requires
followers to carefully keep track of total calories from fat on a daily
basis.

The diet allows not more than 80 calories from fat a day, no matter
an individual's physical size," he said. "This way, we feel that a
person can still enjoy what we call fatty foods while staying within
our guidelines for lipid ingestion."

He added that he expects to publish guidelines for the diet in late
March.

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Holy crap. I had trouble believing that wasn't from the onion.

joe bruno

A low-fat diet, by itself, won't keep weight off. If you reduce your food
intake, your body eventually begins to think you're starving. To avoid
starvation, the body slows down it's metabolism. To compensate for this, you
need to exercise to increase your metabolic rate.

This is a double-edged sword, however. When you exercise, you increase
muscle tissue, which weighs more than fat tissue. That's why most physicians
know that the scale numbers are not the proper measure of good health. It's
how you look that is important.
If you look trim, you're OK.

I weigh more now than I did before I started jogging,but, my belly is gone
and I look trim.
I have a heavy bone structure and large frame and that can't be burned off.

Only when you do weight bearing exercise *and* consume excessive
(hypercaloric) calories in your diet will you increase muscle tissue
to any significant degree. If you are consuming a hypocaloric diet you
will likely not gain much if any muscle tissue even if you exercise
quite a bit. The exercise may make you stronger but it won't enlarge
your muscles without consuming adequate protein/calories.

Aloha,

Rich

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Best defense to logic is ignorance

joe bruno

When you walk, your legs are bearing weight.

When you do calisthenics, your legs are bearing weight.

ben cramer

So you're a bonehead as well as mentally dysfunctional.

joe bruno

Wow! That was really clever! ROTFL!

joe bruno

I'm shaking in my boots.

deepbluesky

errrr.........doesn't this quote........

"The diet allows not more than 80 calories from fat a day, no matter
an individual's physical size," he said. "This way, we feel that a
person can still enjoy what we call fatty foods while staying within
our guidelines for lipid ingestion."

.......basically mean a fat restricted diet??? Or am i being seriously dumb
here? 80 cals of fat = not a lot of grams of fat per day, as far as i can
see.......certainly less than your average overeating person would eat per
day. Yup, sure, more than a 'dieting' or 'fat restricting' person would eat
per day, but again, a lot less than the people cited in this article.
Maybe just about what a 'normal' junk-eating person would eat a day (who is
not overweight, but possibly unhealthy because of the amount of saturated
fat they may or may not be eating, depending on the type of fat they're
eating).

me

The 8-year

mary malmros

A gram of fat = 9 calories, while a gram of protein or carb = 4
calories; hence, 80 calories from fat = just under 9 grams of fat daily.
That's what you'd get in one ounce of cheddar cheese or 2-3 ounces of
a lot of different kinds of meats. IOW, yeah, I'd say it is pretty
restricted.

The other thing that I think is being overlooked, is that in the "low
fat doesn't help" study, the two groups were consuming the same number
of calories.