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Partners Executive Director Dr. David
Weed gave a presentation on "How to Lose Weight Without Going Hungry"
as part of Bristol Community College's new
Live Well @ BCC staff wellness program. The project is part of the
"Working on Wellness"
collaboration between the College, the Mass.
Department of Public Health and Health
Resources in Action and Advancing
Wellness. Dr. Weed
spoke about how low
carbohydrate, high fat diets have repeatedly
been demonstrated to lead to significant weight
loss, especially
when compared to low-fat, calorie-restricted approaches. He disputed the
USDA Dietary Guideline recommendations of the past forty years that
have led to a national
crisis of overweight and diabetes and pointed to research
that does not support an association between saturated fats and heart
disease. Click here for
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(Top row)
Dr. Weed begins the presentation by reviewing what the research says
about what works for weight loss as Enrollment Services Director Lucie
Resendes, Testing Director Kristine Resendes, and Partners Outreach
and Media Liaison Michael Coughlin listen. (Row two) Dr. Weed
points out that the USDA Dietary Guidelines have failed to keep up with
current research and have supported a forty year rise in obesity and
diabetes rates. (Row three) Dr. Weed talks about how increasing dietary
fat and decreasing carbohydrates results in weight loss and reduced
hunger so that weight loss can easily be sustained. (Bottom row) Dr.
Weed reviews the evidence that saturated fats are not associated with
heart disease and that it is important to increase omega-3 fats and
decrease omega-6 fats, particularly from highly refined seed oils as
Nicole Parks and Filomena Ponte from the BCC Human Resources Department
listen.
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video of the presentation recorded by Steve Rys of