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Date Posted: 11:26:43 06/02/02 Sun
Author: Shara
Subject: Interesting article....

As I was reading the washingtonpost.com today I found an interesting article that talked about weight loss and a group that was studied recently. Part of the article went like this....

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� Eat healthy fats. Successful losers in the Consumer Reports survey reported eating less overall fat than their counterparts. While the survey didn't ask about specific types of fat eaten, the research supporting the consumption of healthy fats was compelling enough to prompt Consumer Reports to recommend eating more of them -- echoing a recommendation by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and the American Heart Association.

In one recent study, Kathy McManus, director of nutrition at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, placed overweight people on a Mediterranean-style diet, with about 35 percent of calories coming from healthy fats in foods such as fish, avocado, nuts, and olive and canola oil. They ate the same number of calories daily as another group of overweight folks who kept total fat at 20 percent of calories. At first, both groups lost weight at about the same rate. By the end of the 18-month study, however, those who ate the lower-fat diet had gained an average of 6.4 pounds, compared with an average nine-pound loss for the group that ate a moderate amount of healthy fats.

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Now the article went on to talk about eating a lot of fruit and stuff, but I still liked the way this part sounded. It also said that spending money on programs like weight watchers and jenny craig was not the solution either. If you want to read the article here is the link.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18118-2002May27.html

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