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A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine put 811 overweight adults through four different diets, each one a different proportion of fat, carbohydrates, and protein. The result? On average, participants lost twelve pounds after six months and kept nine pounds off after two years. No matter which diet they followed. Certainly, some di

people who ate the most animal-based foods got the most chronic disease. Even relatively small intakes of animal-based food were associated with adverse effects. People who ate the most plant-based foods were the healthiest and tended to avoid chronic disease.

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whether or not we have eaten recently has a significant impact on the quantity and type of food we purchase.

the key to improving diet is not pushing people to do something they are resistant to doing, but removing the barriers to change. These barriers could be psychological, cultural, or economic, or they may have something to do with the environment in which we live.

norm for our ancestors, those of us who came after seem to have inherited what biochemist C. Nicholas Hales and epidemiologist David J.P. Barker christened “thrifty genes,” good at conserving fat. We are all descended from survivors, and survivors were the chubby ones. “At

Naomi Wolfe, journalist and author of The Beauty Myth, writes, “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in history. A quietly mad population is a tractable one.”