I blogged about a study by Gu et al on April 30, 2010, that found significantly lower incidence of Alzheimer dementia in people in Manhattan who followed this dietary pattern: relatively high consumption of salad dressing, nuts, fish, tomatoes, fruits, dark green leafy vegetables, and cruciferous vegetables relatively low consumption of poultry, red meat, butter, and high-fat [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Fat in Diet’
July 2, 2010
Basic Science: Mediterranean Diet Boosts Antioxidant Power
Compared to the low-fat American Heart Association diet, the traditional Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil has more capacity to counteract potentially harmful “free radicals” and “reactive oxygen species” in our bodies, according to researchers at the University of Navarra in Spain. Our tissues normally contain free radicals and reactive oxygen species, which are intrinsic [...]
May 17, 2010
Low-Carb Mediterranean Diet Improves Glucose Control and Heart Risk Factors in Overweight Diabetics
In overweight type 2 diabetics, a low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet improved HDL cholesterol levels and glucose control better than either the standard Mediterranean diet or American Diabetes Association diet, according to Israeli researchers reporting earlier this year. Background Prior studies suggest that diets rich in monounsaturated fatty acids (olive oil, for example) elevate HDL cholesterol and reduce [...]
April 28, 2010
Individual Response to Weight-Loss Diet May Depend on Genes
Dieters with particular genetic make-up respond better or worse to specific types of weight-loss diets, suggest researchers who presented data at the 2010 Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention /Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism conference. Findings are preliminary, but may explain the common phenomenon of two people going on the same diet, but only one achieving good results. I’ll bet you [...]
March 7, 2010
Book Review: The New Atkins for a New You
Here’s my review of The New Atkins for a New You, a weight-loss book by Dr. Eric Westman, Dr. Stephen Phinney, and Dr. Jeff Volek released a week ago. The copyright holder is Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. Under Amazon.com’s five-star rating system, I give it four stars (“I like it”). ♦ ♦ ♦ The most exciting nutritional medicine [...]
December 18, 2009
Low-Carb Killing Spree Continues
Low-fat and low-carb diets produce equal weight loss and improvements in insulin resistance but the low-carb diet may be detrimental to vascular health, according to a new study in Diabetes. Methodology Researchers in the the UK studied 24 obese subjects—15 female and 9 male—randomized to eat either a low-fat (20% fat, 60% carbohydrate) or low-carb (20% carb, 60% fat) diet [...]
December 8, 2009
Saturated Fat is Bad – If You’re a Mouse!
I was excited to see an article, “A Look at the Low-Carbohydrate Diet,” in the December 3, 2009, New England Journal of Medicine. I was quickly disappointed. Expecting a scholarly review of low-carb eating in humans, I found an exposition of a diet study in mice. And not just your garden-variety mice. These were a lab strain [...]
