Tag: Refined Carbohydrates

  • Nation & World

    Butter’s benefits melt away

    Harvard researchers take a 2014 paper to task and find that butter isn’t one of the good guys. Get your fats from nuts and vegetable oils instead.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Unraveling the secrets of the epilepsy diet

    Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a protein that plays a key role in the long-mysterious effectiveness of an extremely low-calorie, high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet in suppressing epileptic seizures.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Replacing those saturated fats

    In a new study, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health find that replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated ones is likely to help reduce the risk of heart disease.

    4 minutes