jmcquown wrote:
> Phil Mitchell wrote:
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/he...gewanted=print
> >
> > February 7, 2006
> > Study Finds Low-Fat Diet Won't Stop Cancer or Heart Disease
> > By GINA KOLATA
> > The largest study ever to ask whether a low-fat diet keeps women from
> > getting cancer or heart disease has found that the diet had no effect.
> >
> Aside from the money spent, hello? We're all gonna die. My 80 year old
> mother gave up on a low-fat low-sodium diet 10 years ago, telling me she was
> sick to death of boiled and broiled chicken breasts and only steamed
> vegetables and she said, "I'm going to die but I'm going to eat what tastes
> good first, dammit!"

Most people who restrict sodium have absolutely no reason to do so.
The diet correlated with long life is not low-fat, it's low-calorie and
high-fiber.
>
> So she eats she-crab soup and fatty bacon and home fried potatoes. She's
> going to enjoy her food while she can. YAY! Go, Mom! We're all dying, in
> case you didn't notice

The only truly bad fat is the artificially hydrogenated kind.
>
> Jill

--Bryan