Roasting the notion of low-fat diets International Herald Tribune | February 16, 2006| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Gina Kolata
International Herald Tribune
02-16-2006
In an early 19th-century best seller, a famous food writer offered a cure for obesity and chronic disease: a low-carbohydrate diet.The notion that what you eat shapes your medical fate has exerted a strong pull through history. And its appeal continues to this day, medical historians and researchers say.''It's one of the great principles no, more than principles, canons of American culture to suggest that what you eat affects your health,'' says James Morone, a professor of political science at Brown University.''It's this idea that you ...

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