Lately, it seems low fat diets arent working. Studies have been showing a low fat diet alone doesnt do any good. Yes, maybe for the short term, but it deprives your body of necessary nutrients. Besides, who wants to eat a meat patty and no bread all the time? But dont get a chocolate milkshake and burger yet.

The Journal of the American medical Association started a research project to answer two questions:

1. Can women adopt a diet that derives 20% of its calories from fat?
2. Will this help against cancer?

Fat consumption started at 38%. The women were divided into 2 groups. One group reduced their fat intake down to 24%, but leveled off over the years at 29%. The other group the control group dropped to only 37%. This slight drop was probably due to media hype and all the attention to low fat foods over the years.

So, reducing fat intake to 20% may have been too high of a goal to reach. It may have deprived the group of too much freedom and enjoyment in eating. But thats OK, because still some positive results occurred.

The dieters had 22% fewer breast cancer incidents and 9% fewer intestinal disorders. What about colon cancer? Well, colon cancer takes almost 10 years to develop and this test only ran for 8 years. Fortunately for the 49,000 participants, we all gained a great bit of knowledge.

At the time, there was no way to distinguish between trans fats and saturated fats. So, the group just had to use total fat content.

So is the low fat, no-fat game over? Well, there are good fats and bad fats, so stay away from the bad and keep on being low fat. Its still the same old story - keep exercising, eat fruits, veggies, and high fiber whole grains and youll statistically have a better life.