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Cut Carbs, Lose Weight: DIRECT Study Results
It’s the perennial diet dilemma: What diet is best for weight loss?
This debate has flared for decades, fueled most recently by anecdotal, though plentiful, claims of outsized successes with low-carbohydrate diets like the Atkins’ program and the South Beach Diet
A new Israeli study, dubbed the Dietary Intervention Randomized Controlled Trial (DIRECT) Trial, performed by Drs. Iris Shai and colleagues, has shown that of three different diet strategies studied, a low-carbohydrate diet was mos...
Expert & Community Posts
Alternative Treatment for Lowering Cholesterol
By Melanie Thomassian , Health ExpertIn this age of DIY self-medication, there are a host of alternative treatments on the market.... Read more »
Lowering Cholesterol with Sterols and Stanols
By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert...called sterols and stanols, touted as being able to lower cholesterol levels. But, what are... Read more »
Ignoring the Evidence?
By Gretchen Becker , Health Expert... For example, Dean Ornish supports an extremely low fat diet. Such diets do lower... Read more »
Tips on How to Raise Your HDL
By Lisa Nelson, RD, LN , Health Expert...the top 5 omega 3 sources and how much you need to lower cholesterol here at Health Central. ... Read more »
Statins for Children: A Follow-Up
By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert...very harmful - previous studies have failed to show low fat diet effective in reducing obesity,... Read more »
Health Guide
Heart Healthy Diet: soy, fish oil, low-carb and low-fat diets
SoyA rigorous review found that soy protein and isoflavone supplements do not help lower cholesterol or heart disease risk. However, soy foods are healthy choices, and the American Heart... Read more »Low Cholesterol Diets and Lifestyle Changes
...effects. At this time, experts do not recommend low-carbohydrate diets for heart disease prevention.Low Fat Diets. Dietary guidelines recommend keeping total fat intake to 20 30% of total daily... Read more »Information on Keeping a Heart healthy Diet: unsaturated fats, low fat diets
...amount of soy and is very high in sodium.For many years, soy was promoted as a food that could help lower cholesterol and improve heart disease risk factors. But an important 2006 American Heart... Read more »Diabetes Diet: Major Food Components in a healthy diabetic diet
...amount of soy and is very high in sodium.For many years, soy was promoted as a food that could help lower cholesterol and improve heart disease risk factors. But an important 2006 American Heart... Read more »Low Cholesterol Diet: How to Cut Out the Fat
Obesity is a well-documented health crisis in America. Recent statistics show that 30 percent of U.S. adults are obese – this translates to more than 60 million Americans! Obesity impacts more than... Read more »Images
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Medications
...inhibitors or "statins"), along with a low cholesterol/low fat diet, to help lower... Read more »
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Cholesterol and Children
August 13, 2008(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Steps to lower cholesterol should begin as early as infancy, according to a new study. Researchers say the goal of Americans... Read summary »
Best diet: Low-carb, low-fat, or Mediterranean?
October 03, 2008A new, long-term diet study has found that low-carbohydrate diets and a Mediterranean-style diet are just as good--if not better--than a traditional... Read summary »
Blueberries may help ward off diabetes, heart disease
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