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...Waist circumference reduced 2cm more after 18 weeks than in the control group; cholesterol and blood pressure also fell....
...The train of thought that leads from the dairy restaurant to death has nothing to do with cholesterol and everything to do with history....
...The feat of eating her is further complicated by various dietary restrictions: one of her children is vegan, one has high cholesterol, another is kosher after having converted to Judaism....
...Ingredients are organically produced and sourced from nearby farms, put together with an emphasis on low-cholesterol and low-fat cooking....
...Yet I am optimistic about one particular dietary trend from the 1990s that is regaining ground: “Intuitive eating”....
...Eggs, apparently, didn’t contain the “bad” cholesterol and were probably quite good for you. What you should really be doing, we were told, was cutting down on dietary fats and dairy. Butter....
...Saturated fat — the fat found mostly in animal products such as butter, tallow, ghee and lard — is made up of two types of cholesterol....
...Strictures about low-fat dairy consumption were “based on the presumed harms of saturated fats on a single cardiovascular risk marker” — one form of cholesterol....
...It is possible to go vegan shockingly badly, by gorging on chips, crisps and fizzy drinks; the dietary villains of fat, sugar and salt are not found exclusively in flesh....
...The article’s lead author Dr John Sievenpiper, from St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, added the boilerplate caveat, that eating pasta could promote weight loss “when consumed as part of a healthy dietary...
...She adds that systematic reviews suggest those on vegetarian and vegan diets are less likely to be obese, and more likely to have healthy blood pressure and cholesterol levels....
...The emphasis has been on making small dietary changes. “We’re not going to get people to eat salad....
...Each of those studies had one thing in common: they asked participants about their dietary intake and measured health outcomes, such as rates of cancer, stroke or heart disease....
...Their arthritis improved, as did levels of good cholesterol. Many lost substantial amounts of weight. The results have turned the therapists here into evangelical proponents of this way of eating....
...His own edicts include: saturated fats do not cause heart disease; the focus on lowering cholesterol is misplaced; and fats are really not that bad for you, or at least not as bad as some of the ingredients...
...Dietary fibre is known to reduce the incidence of colorectal cancers, so is a wholemeal bacon sarnie OK?...
...This question is particularly relevant when we tend to abandon good dietary habits on holiday and overindulge....
...For that, dietary changes are the most important ingredient....
...Now, Tim Smith, chief executive of the FSA, has other dietary nasties in his sights....
...“Today, it is an excess of foods that are rich in cholesterol and heavy in saturated oils, sugar and salt.”...
...The decline started before widespread prescription of statins, but these cheap, cholesterol-lowering drugs are credited with saving many lives....
...In the US, however, it is experiencing the whiplash that befalls dietary fads, getting synthesised, super-sized and turned simultaneously into a fat vector and a diet food....
...This year, the US government unveiled new dietary guidelines that recommended for the first time regular intake of whole grains in the fight against heart disease....
...First is a revision of the dietary guidelines issued by the US departments of agriculture and health every five years since 1980....
...How much cholesterol you would cut out if you held the “pasteurised processed American cheese”? The answer is here....
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