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...rats in question were fed a low-fat diet until they reached what can best be described as "rodent puberty" - at which point they were all given a very high-fat meal. (Sort of the rat equivalent of freshman year at college). The rats whose blood showed a very high incidence of triglycerides (i.e., fat) after the meal were the same rats who became obese...
...Pounds lost last year by now 180-lb. Jared Fogle, who twice daily ate only a low-fat sub, chips and diet soda at Subway restaurants...
...blood pressure occurred regardless of race or gender and whether or not study participants ate a "typical American diet," which is high in saturated fats and skimps on fruits and vegetables, or the so-called DASH (for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, which emphasizes lots of fresh produce, low-fat dairy, fish and fewer sweets and which was proved in 1997 to reduce hypertension. The biggest decreases in blood pressure in this study were recorded in subjects who ate the DASH diet and reduced their sodium intake...
...recommended upper limit [of sodium intake by the Food and Drug Administration] should be lowered," Sacks says. "[Food manufacturers] should reduce the amount of salt in the foods they make and prepare more low-salt varieties of foods, like they do with low-fat foods...
...adopting a low-fat diet, getting plenty of exercise and losing a little weight, most people can reduce their total cholesterol levels an average of 10% to 20%. Yet that's only about half the effect of the weakest of the currently available statins. Stronger drugs, like Pfizer's Lipitor, can lop off 50%, and AstraZeneca is testing a "superstatin" that reportedly reduces cholesterol levels as much as 70%. (In each case, statins work best when a low-fat diet is adopted...