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Profiles in Medicine

Focus on fad dieting - Do fad diets really work?

High-protein diets are "very dangerous" and can have long-term effects especially in people who are at risk for diabetes and heart disease, warned Dr. Pauline Samuda, Caribbean Food and Nutrition Institute's (CFNI's) nutrition educator.

Those weight-loss products
Nutritional studies conducted in the English-speaking Caribbean in 1995 by Professor Knox Hagley show that about one out of every two women, aged 40 and over, is obese and that obese women had 5.2 times the risk of developing diabetes than non-obese...

A crash dieter's experience
THE HIGH-PROTEIN diet is the next crash diet that Sheila (not her real name) has her mind set on. She believes firmly that this time she will be able to lose the weight and keep it off. After all, one of her girlfriends told her that she moved from...


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