Posted on 10/16/2010 5:39:39 AM PDT by decimon
For the first time researchers have found out what effect multiple, rather than just single, foods with anti-inflammatory effects have on healthy individuals.
The results of a diet study show that bad cholesterol was reduced by 33 per cent, blood lipids by 14 per cent, blood pressure by 8 per cent and a risk marker for blood clots by 26 per cent. A marker of inflammation in the body was also greatly reduced, while memory and cognitive function were improved.
"The results have exceeded our expectations! I would like to claim that there has been no previous study with similar effects on healthy subjects", says Inger Björck, professor of food-related nutrition at Lund University and head of the University's Antidiabetic Food Centre.
Forty-four healthy, overweight people between the ages of 50 and 75 took part in the diet study. For four weeks they ate foods which are presumed to reduce low-grade inflammation in the body, a condition which in turn triggers metabolic syndrome and thus obesity, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
The test diet was high in antioxidants, low-GI foods (i.e. slow release carbohydrates), omega fatty acids, wholegrain products, probiotics and viscous dietary fibre. Examples of foods eaten were oily fish, barley, soy protein, blueberries, almonds, cinnamon, vinegar and a certain type of wholegrain bread. Some of the products in the food portfolio are not yet available in the shops, but were developed specifically for the study.
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Read a more detailed press release from the Antidiabetic Food Centre's website http://www.ffsc.lu.se/afc.
For more information
Please contact Inger Björck, professor of food-related nutrition at Lund University, +46 (0)46 222 9738, Inger.Bjorck@appliednutrition.lth.se, or Juscelino Tovar (also speaks Spanish), project manager at the Antidiabetic Food Centre, +46 (0)46 222 8627, Juscelino.Tovar@ffsc.lu.se.
High-resolution photographs of Inger Björck and Juscelino Tovar can be found in the Lund University image bank www.lu.se/bildbank
“The test diet was high in antioxidants, low-GI foods (i.e. slow release carbohydrates), omega fatty acids, wholegrain products, probiotics and viscous dietary fibre. Examples of foods eaten were oily fish, barley, soy protein, blueberries, almonds, cinnamon, vinegar and a certain type of wholegrain bread. “
A ceasar salad with whole wheat croutons, shrimp cocktail, steak, backed potato and a parfait for dessert will do the same.
What is “a certain type of whole wheat bread”?????
Why not just say it?
Caesar salad guy: no it won’t. Tried that already...
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Ping
Whole grain, actually. Maybe there's some less-common grain in there.
Someday, I hope the coroner business wises up and puts down "old age"...instead of making something up to add to the stats.
Backed potato...common knowledge....you back it up with lotsa butter, sour cream and bacon bits.
beer
“Could I get your recipie for “backed” potato?”
Sure.
Get a potato. Assign it to a political group. PETA backs my potato. They back it on the promise I do not put bacon on it. But I do. Then I deny it. And when they show it to me on video I say, who are you going to believe, that video or your lyin eyes?
But please do not tell them that. I also tell them that the 25oz porterhouse, medium rare with a touch of charring is made from soy. Trying to get them to back that also.
I had great grandparents who lived into their late 80s at a time when the average life span was about 50 and their diet certainly wasn’t healthy by today’s standards. In those days lard was the common cooking fat, butter and eggs were eaten daily, white bread was consumed exclusively and during the winter when fresh produce was unavailable they ate home canned food laden with salt.
With a diet like that, you may not live longer.
But it’ll certainly SEEM longer.
Ugh!
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