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Healthy diet may reverse aging, study finds - today.com, 9/16/13 -
"Ornish and Blackburn’s team examined 10 prostate
cancer patients who had chosen to try Ornish’s program, and compared them to
25 patients who had not. They all had early stage prostate cancer that
wasn’t considered dangerous ... The program includes eating a diet high in
whole foods, fruits, vegetables, unrefined grains and keeping fat to 10
percent of calories. The average American gets more than a third of calories
from fat ... The 10 men who followed the Ornish plan had significantly
longer telomeres five years later -- on average 10 percent longer. The 25
men who had not followed the program had shorter telomeres -- 3 percent
shorter on average" - [Science
Daily]
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Atkins-Like Diet Worse for Cholesterol Compared to South Beach, Ornish
Diets, Study Says - WebMD, 4/1/09 - "While on
the low-carb, high-fat diet, LDL cholesterol levels increased slightly,
compared to decreases of about 12% and 17% respectively, during the South
Beach and Ornish phases of the study ... After a month on the Atkins-like
diet, study participants showed less blood vessel flexibility than they did
after a month on the Ornish diet ... CRP levels remained in the normal range
with all three diets, but levels went down slightly while participants were
on the South Beach and Ornish diets and they went up slightly on the
high-fat, low-carb diet"
- Ornish:
Why Atkins Still Doesn't Beat Low-Fat Diet - Newsweek, 7/16/08 -
"A new study comparing the Atkins diet, a
Mediterranean diet and a low-fat diet published on July 17 in The New
England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), is likely to inspire headlines saying
that the Atkins diet is better for your waistline and your health than a
low-fat diet ... I believe this study is extremely flawed. Here's why: ...
funded in part by the Atkins Foundation ... quality of data in this study
..."
- What’s the Best Diet?
- Dr. Weil, 6/11/04
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Four Popular Diets All Good for Weight Loss But Not Equal for Reducing Heart
Disease Risk - Doctor's Guide, 11/10/03 -
"Patients were evenly assigned to the Atkins diet
(low carbohydrates), Zone (moderate carbohydrates), Ornish (low-fat
vegetarian), or Weight Watchers (moderate fat) ... the heart disease risk
score is based on the HDL/LDL ratio, and the "Ornish diet does not increase
HDL, while the other diets do achieve significant increases in HDL,""
- I put the results in table form:
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At 12 months: |
| |
Weight
decrease |
Framingham
risk score decrease |
Insulin level decrease |
LDL decrease |
HDL increase |
% Completed study |
| Atkins |
3.9% |
12.3% |
7.7% |
8.6% |
15.4% |
52% |
| Zone |
4.6% |
10.5% |
16.5% |
6.7% |
14.6% |
65% |
| Ornish |
6.2% |
6.6% |
19.9% |
16.7% |
2.2% |
50% |
| Weight W. |
4.5% |
14.7% |
8.8% |
7.7% |
18.5% |
65% |
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4 Popular Diets Heart Healthy - WebMD, 11/10/03 -
"the heart disease risk score is based on the ratio
between LDL cholesterol and
HDL
"good" cholesterol ... The
Atkins and
Zone diets
increased HDL by 15%, while Weight Watchers posted an 18.5% gain. But the
Ornish diet increased HDL by just 2.2%"
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