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Hotels Hinckley, guest house, accommodation Hinckley, Leicestershire. The bustling, thriving burg of Hinckley has long been an essential part to the inner machinations of England and, with a population of almost fifty thousand hard working individuals, it is easy to imagine the well oiled machine of Britain to come stalling to a screeching halt without this indispensable town in the lovely county of Leicestershire.

Hotels Hinckley, guest house, accommodation Hinckley, Leicestershire

Recent evidence uncovered shows that Hinckley has in fact been a busy town for nearly a thousand years. The Domesday Book, that revolutionary census of England's state during the 1000s, reports Hinckley during 1086 as being a large village even in those days and its clout and reputation have only grown since. What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie? If the members of the American medical establishment were to have a collective find-yourself-standing-naked-in-Times-Square-type nightmare, this might be it.

What if It's All Been a Big Fat Lie?

They spend 30 years ridiculing Robert Atkins, author of the phenomenally-best-selling ''Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution'' and ''Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution,'' accusing the Manhattan doctor of quackery and fraud, only to discover that the unrepentant Atkins was right all along. Carbs against Cardio: More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart. Eat less saturated fat: that has been the take-home message from the U.S. government for the past 30 years.

Carbs against Cardio: More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart

But while Americans have dutifully reduced the percentage of daily calories from saturated fat since 1970, the obesity rate during that time has more than doubled, diabetes has tripled, and heart disease is still the country’s biggest killer. Now a spate of new research, including a meta-analysis of nearly two dozen studies, suggests a reason why: investigators may have picked the wrong culprit. Processed carbohydrates, which many Americans eat today in place of fat, may increase the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease more than fat does—a finding that has serious implications for new dietary guidelines expected this year.