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90Olive Oil vs. Canola Oil: Fat Profiles
I'm the first to admit that I swear by olive oil. It's pretty much the only oil that I cook with and I've tried all different kinds of olive oil to find what I like. But I'm also the first to admit that...
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93Butter or Margarine: Which is Healthier?
The question of whether it is healthier to eat butter or margarine is a confusing one. One day research comes out proving that butter is a healthier choice, the next day another set of research proves that...
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85Foods to Help You Lose the Dangerous Belly Fat
People who carry excess weight around the belly are at increased risk for heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and some types of cancer. Reasearchers at Wake Forest University found that trans fats,* which has...
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80List of Foods Not to Eat With Diabetes: High-Glycemic and Other Foods to Avoid if You're Type 2
For diabetics with Type 2, adult-onset diabetes, the word out is that sugar is outlawed. That's not quite the case. When you're diabetic, it's not a simple matter of you can eat X and you can't eat Y. ...
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7910 Most Popular Breakfast Cereals
What are the top 10 popular breakfast cereals? And more importantly how do they rank for their nutrition. Good, bad or ugly.
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75Fats Facts
Fat is bad for you...the food industry has exploited this belief in order to sell low-fat and fat-free versions of just about every food product under the sun. But the truth is that fat, in small amounts,...
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79How to increase your good cholesterol
Cholesterol is lipid present only in animal tissues such as meat, egg yolk, and dairy products. It can exist in free form or can be esterified with a fatty acid. Cholesterol per se is not good or bad. The so...
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79Hydrogenated oil is gross.
Over a year ago, New York City made headlines when it passed a bill banning trans fats from its restaurants. While the restaurants have until July of 2008 to comply, the passing of this bill was highly...
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77How To Choose The Best Cooking Oil
There are a lot of options in the cooking oil section. How do you know which one to buy? It depends on whether you are looking for a specific health benefit, or just trying to choose the one which is...
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74Trans Fats and the 20th Century
It is clear now, that since trans fats first were introduced into the human diet at the beginning of the 20th century, they may have been singularly involved in the extraordinary rise in a vast number of...
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