Friday, November 24, 2006

[rosacea] Study: Low-Carb, CHD Unrelated

I have been criticized since 1999 that the Rosacea Diet is not a healthy diet
but more studies have shown that eating low carb is not as bad as everyone
thinks. Here is a quote from a recent study done at Harvard:

"A new Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) study —the first to examine the
long-term effects of low carbohydrate diets—has found there is no association
between such diets and an increased risk of developing coronary heart disease
(CHD).

The study, which appeared in the Nov. 9 issue of The New England Journal of
Medicine, relied on data collected from HSPH's Nurses' Health Study, a sweeping
project which collected data from over 120,000 women starting in 1976.

HSPH researchers also found that there was an association between a lowered risk
of heart disease and low-carb diets that were high in vegetable sources of fat and
protein.

"We are not recommending a low-carb diet over a low-fat diet," said
Thomas L. Halton, one of the authors of the study.

"The truth of the matter is that neither [is] ideal. Both have good points and
bad points."

According to Halton, carbohydrate and fat sources have a greater impact on the
risk of CHD than the quantity of carbohydrates and fat consumed.

"You can take the best of both diets and eliminate the negatives by focusing on
vegetable sources of fat and protein and choosing lower glycemic sources of
carbohydrates," said Halton, a former HSPH doctoral student.

Non-dietary factors such as levels of cholesterol and blood pressure, as well as
diabetes and exercise, did not appear to impact the relationship between low carb
diets and CHD risk.

"We controlled for [those factors] in our analyses so we can say the association
between low carb diet and risk of CHD was independent of other risk factors
for CHD," Halton said."

source >

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=515865

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