although the conclusion issued by the study of the Journal of the American dietetics Association might not appear out of this world for those who once followed diets as popular as the Atkins, South Beach, or plan Ornish could be useful especially If you suffer from heart or you have high cholesterol.
Diet ‘ Atkins ‘ for example prohibits carbohydrates, while allowing food rich in saturated fat, like butter and meat red.
To turn the diet ‘ South Beach ’ emphasizes moderate doses of unsaturated fats like olive oil and turn on carbohydrate ‘ good ’ of vegetable origin or legumes. Ornish plan instead is a diet very low vegetarian fat effectively to avoid heart infarction.
researchers initially not sought to study the lost of weight that these diets have, but the biological effects of these: cholesterol, function of blood vessels and inflammation. 26 Participants were not obese that followed each of the three diets for a month and diets were structured in such a way that they would maintain their weight.
After a month the Atkins Diet led to a rise in so-called cholesterol ‘ bad ’ (LDL), on the other hand the South Beach and the Ornish managed to reduce in a 12% and 17% respectively cholesterol. Also the latter gave better results based arterial and venous, because by increasing the number of saturated fat function of these declined. That is, according to this study the diets low in saturated fat extreme last once its acute phase (that which gives loss of fat), they would be an excellent prescription for a healthy heart.
Source: Journal of the American Dietetic Association, March 2009.
Tags: Atkins, Ornish, heart, South Beach
