Largest Study Ever on Effects of Low Fat Diets

They did recommend the following: "Given the lack of benefit found in the study, many medical researchers said that the best dietary advice, for now, was to follow federal guidelines for healthy eating, with less saturated and trans fats, more grains, and more fruits and vegetables." Not everyone was convinced, either, like Dr. Dean Ornish and others.

Thank you Elisha. What did you think about it all? I am still digesting it. It seems like they are saying to take things in moderation at this time. I'm not going off my lower fat diet. I think it's the only way I can lose weight, or at leats in my experience.

Thanks, El! I've had different responses about that article. Some people think it's still hype I guess that it doesn't mean anything, others said they knew that all along that it wasn't fat causing heart dis. and diabetes and others still think to do things in moderation. I think that works best for me too, moderation that is!!

Thanks Whoa!

Hi everybody, lower fat & lower cholesteral will prevent clogging of the arteries & reduce the risk of stroke. if you research it you'll find that is fact too. Take care & if you are on low fat now please check with Dr. or dietician before doing so. God Bless.

jtu91952 said...
Whoa, are you on statins and/or blood pressure meds? those are great numbers. How did you do it?

Hi... No I practise calorie restriction, at first glance it might seem that my low numbers could be caused by some disease, but I have no diseases or anything that caused these low numbers. CR is the only known way to retard bioligical aging in all animal, you restrict calories by 30% it makes the animal live 30% longer and so on...

I got these numbers by eat healthy and restricting my calories to 1800k/cal a day. Calorie Restriction is universal in its benifits as I mentioned earlier on. I got very little response when I shared this with this section of the forum, probably because CR would be difficult to do, especially for life. CR has a rejunvenating effect on the heart and it prevents primary aging not just secondary.

Please take a look at this very recent study, our members at CR Society took part in this study.

http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6447.html

"This decline in diastolic function is a marker of primary aging," Fontana said. "Diastolic function declines in most people as they get older, but in this study we found that diastolic function in calorie-restricted people resembled diastolic function in individuals about 15 years younger."

"People in the study averaged only six years on the diet, but their hearts looked 15 years younger. So Fontana said it's possible that the diet has a rejuvenating effect."

You can read the rest at the link I gave you.

A very high majority of us that do calorie restriction have very good health markers, changes happen farily quickly... If you are interested I can share some links with you to Videos or articles on it.

this is a typical day for me:

Food List : 25, jan, 2006.FLS
DATE : 01/25/06
Num. Foods : 27
Food #1 : Quaker Rolled Oats (w/water) 1.3 servings
Food #2 : Milk, nonfat, fluid, without added vitamin A (fat free or skim) 0.1 servings
Food #3 : Nuts, almonds, dried, unblanched 0.2 servings
Food #4 : Nuts, brazilnuts, dried, unblanched 0.1 servings
Food #5 : Bananas, raw 1.0 servings
Food #6 : Blueberries, raw 0.2 servings
Food #7 : Whey Protein drink (w/water) 1.0 servings
Food #8 : Lindt Chocolate Excellence 85% 0.3 servings (2g)
Food #9 : Muller stawberry yoghurt 1.0 servings
Food #10 : Brussels sprouts, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 1.0 servings
Food #11 : Broccoli, raw 1.9 servings
Food #12 : Oil, olive, salad or cooking 1.0 servings
Food #13 : Chicken, broilers or fryers, breast, meat only, cooked, roasted 2.0 servings
Food #14 : Carrots, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 1.0 servings
Food #15 : Cauliflower, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without salt 1.0 servings
Food #16 : Spinach, raw 10.0 servings
Food #17 : Cabbage, red, raw 2.2 servings
Food #18 : Egg, white, raw, fresh 1.4 servings
Food #19 : Apples, raw, with skin 0.4 servings
Food #20 : Spices, basil, ground 2.0 servings
Food #21 : Salsa 2.3 servings
Food #22 : Spices, turmeric, ground 2.0 servings
Food #23 : Oil, olive, salad or cooking 1.0 servings
Food #24 : Tomatoes, orange, raw 1.9 servings
Food #25 : Pears, raw 0.3 servings

Sometimes I have salmon instead of chicken or lots of eggwhites, no red meat! my diet also usually contains a lot of sweet potatoes!

CR helps prevent the following:

2002 deaths from:

1. 696,447 Heart Disease
2. 557,197 Malignant Neoplasms (i.e. cancer)
3. 162,555 Cerebrovascular disease
4. 124,777 Chronic Low. Respiratory Disease
5. 105,796 Unintentional Injury (Accidents)
6. 73,248 Diabetes Mellitus
7. 65,418 Influenza & Pneumonia
8. 58,866 Alzheimer's disease
9. 40,801 Nephritis
10. 33,569 Septicemia

Except accidents!

We have had people with high cholesterol numbers like that on the cr society and by restricting calories upto 20-30% they got their cholesterol levels lower than even what medication could do, which some people were on for many years.

Here is an interview with david stern, he has been doing CR because of heart disease,

This video requires Real Player! ( if you aint got it you can get it free here; http://www.real.com/ )

http://calorierestriction.org/files/conference/2004/streams/stern-clip-100k.ram

It's worth thinking about just monitoring your calorie intake and try reducing it, I can't promise that you will see the same benifits but i'm sure that there can be some improvement! It is very important to track nutrients though to ensure that you meet RDA of everything. Please post back on your results.

If your interested in learning more check out any of the following:

1) http://www.calorierestriction.org

2) Calorie Restriction With Optimal Nutrition
http://www.cron-web.org/

3)Biosphere two experiment
http://www.cron-web.org/Walford_Biosphere1.pdf

Some video news stories:

1) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/30/eveningnews/main1172297.shtml

2) http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/07/08/eveningnews/main514443.shtml

3) http://www.cbc.ca/clips/ram-lo/reith_caloric0405131.ram
or
http://www.cbc.ca/clips/mov/reith_caloric0405131.mov

Or go here to watch the discovery canada video on calorie restriction:

http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=calorie+restriction

The video is on the left side (with the mouse)