September 14, 2001
What You Eat and What You Are
Research shows that diet can affect genes
A patient is frustrated. He has high cholesterol and a family history of heart disease. His doctor has placed him on a low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. But his cholesterol levels haven't budged.
The doctor is frustrated, too. Though the patient insists he's been following doctor's orders, the physician suspects the man is cheating on his diet. After all, reams of studies on thousands of subjects have shown that a very-low-fat diet
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