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Assignment:
Low-Fat Lies, High-Fat Frauds-Pgs. 77-107
1. What are triglycerides?
2. Why is it so important to look at triglyceride levels?
3. What is the relationship between LDL's and triglycerides?
4. What raises your triglyceride levels? Why?
5. How does the Mediterranean Diet influence your blood-lipid profile?
6. What is Syndrome X or Metabolic Syndrome and what are its characteristics?
7. 96% of physicians didn't know ____________________.
8. Explain this statement: "This failure of prevention occurs in the face of a decrease in smoking and reduction in dietary fat."
9. Dean Ornish recommends a very low-fat diet along with what other components?
10. How does this make the Ornish diet scientifically invalid?