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Eat plants, cut LDL
Vegetarian Times, Sept, 2005
Plant-based low-fat diets have twice the cholesterol-lowering effect of meat-based low-fat diets. Scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine tested two diets that included the same levels of fat, cholesterol, protein and carbohydrates on 120 adults aged 30-65. After only four weeks, the diet that included meat achieved, on average, a 4.6 percent reduction in LDL, the "bad" cholesterol.
But the rival regimen which was packed with vegetables, fruits and whole grains--reduced LDL by more than twice as much--9.4 percent. The encouraging research appears in the May 3, 2005 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
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