If you reduce total fat, but you don't reduce the bad fat, you defeat the purpose because you end up reducing the good fats that protect your heart health.

So it's kind of a double whammy.

The thing to remember from this study is that the change in their diets wasn't huge. They ate about one-and-a-half more veggies each day and lowered their fat intake by about 9 percent.

If you put cattle on this type of habitat, it's going to completely defeat the purpose of scrub restoration.

You're going to defeat the purpose of communicating with the people. The people do not participate like they need to.

seems to defeat the purpose of a blind trust. Somebody else is supposed to have control over it to avoid potential conflicts of interest. If you can just reach in and sell stock, it seems it defeats the whole purpose.