Dr. Ornish's diet plan limits daily calories from fat to less than ten percent, with little to no saturated fat or cholesterol.

VOA: special.2011.07.05

To lose that fat in a week, you have to burn off at least that amount in calories or eat that much less.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

"They can't just look at a product that says 'low grams of saturated fat' or 'low saturated fat' and assume that it's healthy."

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

"because the fat mass can induce changes that are metabolically bad, like an increase in glucose or insulin, also an increase in fat,blood fats, like triglycerides or cholesterol."

VOA: standard.2010.07.08

And so if that's not going to produce benefit, what sorts of replacements might?" Mozaffarian's study found that people who replaced saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat had about a 20 percent lower risk of heart attack or other heart disease.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25