| The low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet that has been promoted for over a decade to prevent coronary heart disease may not be the best diet after all. Harvard researchers present new dietary guidelines that question the original diet-heart hypothesis.
The new guidelines are based on a large number of diet studies involving hundreds of thousands of people. The researchers claim that the original diet-heart hypothesis was "overly optimistic."
American Academy Physicians & Surgeons Summer, 2003 (PDF file)
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