Vegetarian Diet May Lower Cholesterol as much as Drugs..

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Vegetarian Diet May Cut Cholesterol As Much As Drugs Do

 

Results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association

(July 23, 2003) indicate that a strict low-fat vegetarian diet high

in specific plant products can lower levels of bad cholesterol as

much as widely-prescribed statin drugs can.

 

The diet that produced these study results was a strict vegetarian

diet that included certain foods (eggplant, soy, almonds, barley,

okra, etc.) that have already proven to control cholesterol levels.

David J. A. Jenkins of the University of Toronto and his colleagues

tested a specific vegetarian diet that combined many of these food

groups into one menu that contained high amounts of plant sterols,

fiber, nuts and soy protein. Of the 46 patients with high

cholesterol levels that the team studied, 16 ate this diet for a

month. A second group of 16 ate a regular low-fat vegetarian diet

and 14 participants consumed the low-fat diet and took 20 milligrams

of lovastatin, a standard cholesterol-reducing drug. At the end of

the study period, those patients who ate the special diet lowered

their levels of LDL cholesterol (the " bad " type associated with

clogging coronary arteries) by 29 percent whereas the patients

taking lovastatin reduced their LDL levels by 31 percent. The low-

fat dieters, in contrast, showed just an 8 percent decrease in the

amount of LDL present. " As we age, we tend to get raised

cholesterol, which in turn increases our risk of heart disease, "

Jenkins explains. " This study shows that people now have a dietary

alternative to drugs to control their cholesterol, at least

initially. "

 

Although more studies will need to be done to backup the link

between a veggie diet and healthy cholesterol researchers are

optimistic that they may be on a roadway toward a drugless therapy

for lowering cholesterol that will benefit many individuals.

 

 

dr. DLN

 

This information is taken from a book " A NEW LOOK AT

VEGETARIANISM: It's positive Effects on Health and Disease

Control. "

http://napublishing.com/learn_earn.html#guidelist

http://napublishing.com/new_look_veg.html

 

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[Guest guest]

dr. DLN,

 

The Raw diet rather than the vegetarian diet has halved my total

cholesterol

from 290 to 145 without drugs.

 

If such is of interest I could try to locate the LDL readings at the

outset. etc.

 

Peter

 

Dr. S.S. Dhillon [drdln]

26 July 2003 16:28

rawfood

[Raw Food] Vegetarian Diet May Lower Cholesterol as much as

Drugs..

 

 

 

Vegetarian Diet May Cut Cholesterol As Much As Drugs Do

 

Results published in the Journal of the American Medical Association

(July 23, 2003) indicate that a strict low-fat vegetarian diet high

in specific plant products can lower levels of bad cholesterol as

much as widely-prescribed statin drugs can.

 

The diet that produced these study results was a strict vegetarian

diet that included certain foods (eggplant, soy, almonds, barley,

okra, etc.) that have already proven to control cholesterol levels.

David J. A. Jenkins of the University of Toronto and his colleagues

tested a specific vegetarian diet that combined many of these food

groups into one menu that contained high amounts of plant sterols,

fiber, nuts and soy protein. Of the 46 patients with high

cholesterol levels that the team studied, 16 ate this diet for a

month. A second group of 16 ate a regular low-fat vegetarian diet

and 14 participants consumed the low-fat diet and took 20 milligrams

of lovastatin, a standard cholesterol-reducing drug. At the end of

the study period, those patients who ate the special diet lowered

their levels of LDL cholesterol (the " bad " type associated with

clogging coronary arteries) by 29 percent whereas the patients

taking lovastatin reduced their LDL levels by 31 percent. The low- fat

dieters, in contrast, showed just an 8 percent decrease in the

amount of LDL present. " As we age, we tend to get raised

cholesterol, which in turn increases our risk of heart disease, "

Jenkins explains. " This study shows that people now have a dietary

alternative to drugs to control their cholesterol, at least

initially. "

 

Although more studies will need to be done to backup the link

between a veggie diet and healthy cholesterol researchers are

optimistic that they may be on a roadway toward a drugless therapy

for lowering cholesterol that will benefit many individuals.

 

 

dr. DLN

 

This information is taken from a book " A NEW LOOK AT

VEGETARIANISM: It's positive Effects on Health and Disease

Control. "

http://napublishing.com/learn_earn.html#guidelist

http://napublishing.com/new_look_veg.html

 

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