Guilt-free fats
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Procter & Gamble and other snack-food makers are making synthetic-fat products available to health-conscious consumers. But there is evidence many of these products are devoid of nutrients. Also, snack foods constitute only a small portion of the fat calories consumed daily in the US.
Publication Name: Self
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-0699
Year: 1992
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Danger: diet drugs
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The combinative use of appetite suppressant drugs such as fen-phen have been found to possibly cause heart valve disorders. Aside from fatal side-effects such as fatigue and leg swelling, these drugs have also been linked to the development of primary pulmonary hypertension.
Publication Name: Self
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-0699
Year: 1997
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Top 10 breast cancer myths
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It is not true that more young women are dying of breast cancer. Other breast cancer myths involve risk factors, the relationship between breast cancer and high-fat food and birth-control pills, monthly beast self-exams and treatment decisions.
Publication Name: Self
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0149-0699
Year: 1999
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