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Moylo, you might find this interesting.
Yesterday, while sampling information from the book, The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life (2014) by Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland, I came across a description of this interesting trial, on pages 205-208, published in 2008 in Nutrition and Metabolism, London...
Enhancement of a modified Mediterranean-style, low glycemic load diet with specific phytochemicals improves cardiometabolic risk factors in subjects with metabolic syndrome and hypercholesterolemia in a randomized trial
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2588603/
The Functional Medicine Clinical Research Center conducted a trial that consisted of a "modified Mediterranean" diet - (the amount of carbohydrate was limited) - "along with a program of daily walking". "It is a low-glycemic-load diet, which means that its foods don't spike the level of sugar in the blood after eating. This lessens the demand on the pancreas to secrete insulin, and it lowers the need to immediately transport glucose into the tissues."
"Participants in our clinical trial were given no calorie limits; rather, they were encouraged to eat as much as they wanted of foods on the approved low-glycemic-load list while avoiding everything on a list of such high-glycemic-load contributors as sugary foods, white flour foods, convenience and snack foods, and sweetened beverages."...
"The control group followed this modified Mediterranean eating plan exclusively. But a second study group added to it a medical food containing specific phytonutrients..." ["soy derived phytosterols, lignans, and isoflavones; hops-derived reduced isohumulones; and anthocyanins derived from the bark of the Acacia nilotiaca tree."]
"Both groups also followed a daily walking program", 20 minutes a day at a "pace, not a stroll."...
Participants in both groups in the twelve week trial lost an average of "about a pound of body fat per week"... and "70 percent of the markers for insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome simply disappeared."
"The most remarkable outcome, however, was the effect of the medical food, loaded with the specific phytonutrients, taken by the special study group. Their results trumped even the positive results of the control group."... They "experienced better than a 30 percent improvement in reduced LDL, increased HDL, and reduced triglycerides."
Yesterday, while sampling information from the book, The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life (2014) by Dr. Jeffrey S. Bland, I came across a description of this interesting trial, on pages 205-208, published in 2008 in Nutrition and Metabolism, London...
Enhancement of a modified Mediterranean-style, low glycemic load diet with specific phytochemicals improves cardiometabolic risk factors in subjects with metabolic syndrome and hypercholesterolemia in a randomized trial
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2588603/
The Functional Medicine Clinical Research Center conducted a trial that consisted of a "modified Mediterranean" diet - (the amount of carbohydrate was limited) - "along with a program of daily walking". "It is a low-glycemic-load diet, which means that its foods don't spike the level of sugar in the blood after eating. This lessens the demand on the pancreas to secrete insulin, and it lowers the need to immediately transport glucose into the tissues."
"Participants in our clinical trial were given no calorie limits; rather, they were encouraged to eat as much as they wanted of foods on the approved low-glycemic-load list while avoiding everything on a list of such high-glycemic-load contributors as sugary foods, white flour foods, convenience and snack foods, and sweetened beverages."...
"The control group followed this modified Mediterranean eating plan exclusively. But a second study group added to it a medical food containing specific phytonutrients..." ["soy derived phytosterols, lignans, and isoflavones; hops-derived reduced isohumulones; and anthocyanins derived from the bark of the Acacia nilotiaca tree."]
"Both groups also followed a daily walking program", 20 minutes a day at a "pace, not a stroll."...
Participants in both groups in the twelve week trial lost an average of "about a pound of body fat per week"... and "70 percent of the markers for insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome simply disappeared."
"The most remarkable outcome, however, was the effect of the medical food, loaded with the specific phytonutrients, taken by the special study group. Their results trumped even the positive results of the control group."... They "experienced better than a 30 percent improvement in reduced LDL, increased HDL, and reduced triglycerides."
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As with everything else you have to do what you think is right for you I don't think taking a good multi vitamin supplement can do any harm and could be good. I am a great believer in cold liver oil for the joints and have been taking a high strength capsule every day for years. I am 76 and I don't have any significant arthritis or mobility problems so maybe that is down to the cod liver oil maybe not but I will continue to take it
You don't look 76 - you look as fresh as a daisy - or even an orchid!
