Increasing fat intake is associated with overweight and obesity in men only according to a new study from researchers at the University of Montreal in Montreal, Canada. This is interesting in light of the fact that the previous article suggested that women were more susceptible to gaining weight from and increase in dietary fat than men. Since this was a survey, it could be that women underestimated their dietary fat intake, perhaps unwilling to admit to eating fatty foods. Read the entire article | Email this article

Believe it or not, higher sugar intake is associated with lower body mass index and lower body fat according to epidemiological data. There is also an inverse relationship between sugar and fat intake. In other words, the more sugar people eat, the less fat they eat. Read the entire article | Email this article