dzl66
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I love it when the medical establishment's gotta eat some crow...
And lately, with the rise of the low-carb diet, it's been happening a lot. But the mainstream press has been sluggish to report a lot of these myth-busting stories, it seems to me. Nevertheless, if you know where to look, you can find proof to validate what I've already told you is true when it comes to nutrition - namely, that a low-fat diet high in vegetables and fruits doesn't help your healthy bottom line.
In a recent article from Reuters online, I read some of the most decisive evidence yet that proves what I've been saying all along: Eating too many vegetables and fruits actually INCREASES LDL (bad) cholesterol while lowering HDL (good) cholesterol - especially among women.
According to the findings of a recent Finnish study, subject women who consumed a low-vegetable, low-fat diet endured a 19% increase in serum LDL. The study also gauged the effects of a low-fat, HIGH-vegetable diet - and found that LDL among this group still went up 27%. Both groups suffered a similar drop in healthy HDL.
That's right: In the presence of lowered fat intake, more vegetables equals dramatically greater LDL - but even a small amount of vegetables translated into increased LDL. If this isn't solid evidence that we're designed to eat fats and meats instead of veggies (for the most part), I don't know what would be!
Now, you're probably thinking the same thing I am: Why didn't they also measure the effects of a HIGH-fat, low- vegetable diet? Probably because they embarked on the research with an anti-fat political agenda in mind - which is why they didn't even measure how an infusion of healthy fat would fit into the mix. How do I know there's an agenda at work here?
Because according to the Reuters piece, the study's authors characterized these findings as "unexpected." If they were truly impartial (or at all knowledgeable) about the role of fats and vegetable matter in proper nutrition, they wouldn't have been the least bit surprised at the research's results...
Or even bothered to study it in the first place...
And lately, with the rise of the low-carb diet, it's been happening a lot. But the mainstream press has been sluggish to report a lot of these myth-busting stories, it seems to me. Nevertheless, if you know where to look, you can find proof to validate what I've already told you is true when it comes to nutrition - namely, that a low-fat diet high in vegetables and fruits doesn't help your healthy bottom line.
In a recent article from Reuters online, I read some of the most decisive evidence yet that proves what I've been saying all along: Eating too many vegetables and fruits actually INCREASES LDL (bad) cholesterol while lowering HDL (good) cholesterol - especially among women.
According to the findings of a recent Finnish study, subject women who consumed a low-vegetable, low-fat diet endured a 19% increase in serum LDL. The study also gauged the effects of a low-fat, HIGH-vegetable diet - and found that LDL among this group still went up 27%. Both groups suffered a similar drop in healthy HDL.
That's right: In the presence of lowered fat intake, more vegetables equals dramatically greater LDL - but even a small amount of vegetables translated into increased LDL. If this isn't solid evidence that we're designed to eat fats and meats instead of veggies (for the most part), I don't know what would be!
Now, you're probably thinking the same thing I am: Why didn't they also measure the effects of a HIGH-fat, low- vegetable diet? Probably because they embarked on the research with an anti-fat political agenda in mind - which is why they didn't even measure how an infusion of healthy fat would fit into the mix. How do I know there's an agenda at work here?
Because according to the Reuters piece, the study's authors characterized these findings as "unexpected." If they were truly impartial (or at all knowledgeable) about the role of fats and vegetable matter in proper nutrition, they wouldn't have been the least bit surprised at the research's results...
Or even bothered to study it in the first place...
