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Fast food at a Health Fair?!

We recently attended an employee health fair and were shocked to see that fast food was served for breakfast and the only nutrition handout provided was basically an advertisement for various fast food chains. This handout gave “worst, better, and best” choices at each restaurant based on the number of calories and grams of fat. [...]

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Cholesterol & Heart Disease: An Unlikely Pair

Cholesterol, as most of you know by now, is blamed for causing heart disease.  It seems obvious that this must be the case, after all, isn’t heart disease caused by collecting plaques made of cholesterol?  And don’t people who eat lots of cholesterol-containing foods get heart disease more often?  This is certainly what we have been led to [...]

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