
News|Slideshows|February 26, 2016
The New Skinny on Fats
Slide Show: Catch up on the shift in research on how best to balance fat intake to prevent cardiovascular disease.
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Diet is crucial in the development and prevention of cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death in the United States and worldwide. Researchers have long known that fat consumption has a strong correlation with disease risk, but the latest research is producing important new findings about the roles various kinds of fats may play in causing-or preventing-this disease.Click through the slides above for a quick reveiw of very recent studies.
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