June 5, 2009, Newsletter Issue #170: Low fat diets versus very low fat diets

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Very Low Fat diets are diets with 15% daily Calories from fat or less and often 10% or less. Examples:



1) Pritikin diet: less than 10% fat, non-vegetarian.



2) Ornish diet: Lacto-Ovo vegetarian, 10% fat.



3) McDougall diet: Vegan diet, less than 10% fat.



A low calorie diet with fat % around 20 to 30 percent of daily calories is now considered more effective than a very low fat diets.

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