Re: Low Carb Diet Reduces Blood Pressure and Chloresterol

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This is probably on of the main reason thay I have low choleserol for so long

because I have been on low carb low glycemic diet for years

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> Reported January 27, 2010

> Low-Carb Diet Reduces Blood Pressure

> (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Researchers have found a low-carbohydrate diet

helps people lose weight as effectively as a popular weight loss drug, and

trumps the drug at lowering cholesterol.

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> Researchers of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Duke University

Medical Center have shown low-carb diets are more successful in lowering blood

pressure than the weight-loss drug orlistat.

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> " If people have high blood pressure and a weight problem, a

low-carbohydrate diet might be a better option than a weight loss medication, "

lead study author S. Yancy, Jr., M.D., was quoted as saying.

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> The study included 146 overweight participants who had typically

associated health problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high

cholesterol and arthritis. Over the year-long study, patients improved their

cholesterol and glucose levels and lost an average of almost 10 percent of their

body weight.

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> Most importantly, almost half of the participants who followed the

low-carb diet decreased or discontinued their high blood pressure medication

compared to 21 percent of the orlistat plus low-fat diet group.

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> " I expected the weight loss to be considerable with both therapies, but

we were surprised to see blood pressure improve so much more with the

low-carbohydrate diet than with orlistat, " Dr. Yancy said.

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[Guest guest]

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http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/

http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/

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