It's the eternal battle amongst dieters - low carb/no carb? lowfat/reduced fat? Low cal? There is a strong argument for every one.
According to the early findings of research that has been published in the Annals of Internal Medicine that compared people on lowfat diets versus people who follow a Mediterranean diet -- not "The" Mediterranean Diet, but "A" Mediterranean diet, the general term for a diet that includes large amounts of fat in the form of olive oil and tree nuts like almonds, hazelnuts, and walnuts.
Though the complete study is not yet through its entire four years, participants so far who have been following Mediterranean lifestyles have experienced increases in HDL, decreases in LDL, and decreases in inflammation.
This is, of course, not new information, but encouraging for those of us who don't seem to find that lowfat diets work for our body types. Healthy or not healthy, it sure works for me, since Mediterreanan is in my top five cuisines!
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9-02-2006 @ 1:02PM
ben said...
this is spot on - its all about the KINDS of fats you are eating, NOT that you are just eating FAT. the misconception that eating fat makes one fat is FINALLY going away. getting fat is simply mathematically eating more calories than one uses in a certain amount of time. thats it. that those calories might come from fat, protein, carbohydrate, etc. is totally beside the point. lets all eat lots of tasty fats. coconuts and olives here i come!
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