SAD - Human Study Shows: Three Days on "High Fat" Standard American Diet Produce Heart Healthier LDL Particle Profile Than NCEP-Approved Low Fat Diet
Image 1: SAD or just mad? It does in fact look like you better stick to Royal TS , French fries & co instead of following a low fat diet according to the guidelines of the National Cholesterol Education Program if you care about your heart health. In view of the fact that millions of lives depend on it (literally, not just figuratively!) it is actually quite surprising, some would probably say "scandalous" that the experimental evidence (and I am talking about controlled experiments on real , healthy human beings, not about epidemiological and thusly statistical) for the purported beneficial effects of a non-calorically restricted "healthy low fat diet" in the absence of additional exercise interventions is... scarce, to say the least. I was thusly positively surprised, when I hit on a study from a group of researchers from the Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods at the Laval University and the Lipid Research Center at the CHUL Research Cent...