Fun with misleading news: Amish have a genetic resistance to heart disease.

[Guest guest]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081212/hl_nm/us_heart_gene

Mind you, it's probably more that they don't eat much (or any) modern

junk with the trans fats etc. The article just repeats the tired line

about low-fat diets. More justification for pharmaceuticals, I guess.

Someone once asked me why I let myself get worked up about these types

of articles. I think they're a great way to reinforce the trad way of

eating because sometimes we slip, or have to compromise when traveling.

~Joe

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A rare genetic abnormality found in people in

an insular Amish community protects them from heart disease, a

discovery that could lead to new drugs to prevent heart ailments, U.S.

researchers said on Thursday.

About 5 percent of Old Order Amish people in Pennsylvania's Lancaster

County have only one working copy rather than the normal two of a gene

that makes a protein that slows the breakdown of triglycerides, a type

of fat that circulates in the blood, the researchers wrote in the

journal Science.

" People who have the mutation all have low triglycerides, " said Toni

Pollin of the University of land School of Medicine in Baltimore,

who led the study.

" This gives us clues that ultimately could develop future treatments. "

Triglycerides naturally disappear more quickly in these people than in

people without this gene mutation.

High triglyceride levels, often due to a high-fat diet, can contribute

to hardening and narrowing of the arteries, raising the risk of heart

attack, heart disease and stroke.

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[Guest guest]

They don't even have the facts right in the article either! The major cause of

high triglycerides comes from sugar and carbs!!! Not fats! Ugh, they need to get

the facts right!

Kimi

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