Tag Archive for: high-fat diet

What We Don’t Know

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This past weekend, Paula and I along with our good friend Sharon went to the 100th Homecoming game of Michigan State University as they played Purdue; Sharon and I went to grad school together at MSU and Paula graduated from Purdue. Those pesky Boilermakers showed up in the second half and almost beat the Spartans. As you may suspect, that’s not the reason for this message.

When you sit in a single seat in a stadium as large as Spartan Stadium which holds just over 75,000 people, you can feel insignificant. In Dr. Chet World, it has a . . .

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The Battle of Fat vs. Carb

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Sometimes I just can’t let go. Such is the case with this diet debate of fat versus carbohydrate. I’m going to address both of these questions this week. It won’t end the debate, but at least you’ll have the facts.

The debate comes down to two separate but related questions:

  • Does a diet high in saturated fat contribute to heart disease?
  • Is the high-carbohydrate and low-fat diet recommended by the USDA the cause of the obesity epidemic?

Let’s begin with scientific evidence that a high-fat diet . . .

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