Is one diet better than the others?

Is one diet better than the others?

Study finds 4 popular diets all work to lower weight, heart risk

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) --No matter what diet you are on, if you eat
less and lose weight you also lower your risk of heart disease, doctors
reported at an annual heart meeting.

Weight Watchers, the high-fat Atkins diet, the extremely low-fat Ornish
diet and the high-protein, moderate carbohydrate Zone diet all help people
lose weight and all reduce cholesterol, but in different ways, the
researchers told a meeting of the American Heart Association this week.

"On average, participants in the study reduced their heart disease risk by
5 percent to 15 percent," said Dr. Michael Dansinger of Tufts University in
Boston.

"Instead of saying there is one clear winner here, we are saying they are
all winners."

And, as might be expected, the closer dieters followed the plans, the more
weight they lost.

Those who stuck it out for a full year lost, on average, 5 percent of their
body weight -- or about 10 to 12 pounds.

While the dieters reduced heart disease "risk factors" such as cholesterol
levels, overall blood pressure did not drop much and the study did not last
long enough to see if this translated into a lower long-term risk of heart
disease.

Instead, the researchers used statistics that show lowering cholesterol by
a certain amount, for instance, reduces the risk of heart disease overall.

Dr. Robert Eckel of the University of Colorado, who heads the Heart
Association's nutrition committee, said the message is clear -- lose weight
however you can to reduce your risk of heart disease.

"I think weight reduction trumps a lot of other stuff," Eckel said.

Losing weight
For the study Dansinger and colleagues chose 160 overweight people and
randomly assigned 40 to each of four different diets. They weighed an
average 220 pounds and needed to lose between 30 and 80 pounds.

All agreed to follow the diets to the best of their ability for two months,
although none were enrolled in the full programs that Weight Watchers and
Dr. Dean Ornish advocate.

They include exercise, group meetings and food diaries for Weight Watchers
and stress reduction for the Ornish diet.

After two months, 22 percent of the dieters had given up. After a year, 35
percent dropped out of Weight Watchers and the Zone diets and 50 percent
had quit the Atkins and Ornish plans.

Dansinger and other researchers said the study suggested there is no
one-size-fits-all diet best for everyone.

"The type of person who is going to go for a low-fat, vegetarian diet is
not, in my experience, the kind of person who is going to go for a
high-meat diet," Dansinger said.

Cholesterol levels
But for people with high cholesterol levels, the Ornish diet might be the
most beneficial, Dansinger said.

"The Ornish diet, low-fat vegetarian, was best for lowering the bad LDL
cholesterol, while other diets were better at raising the good HDL
cholesterol," Dansinger said. Low density lipoprotein cholesterol is the
stuff that clogs arteries, while high density lipoprotein carries fat out
of the blood.

"Atkins reduced LDL 8.6 percent, Zone 6.7 percent, Weight Watchers 7.7
percent and Ornish 16.7 percent," Dansinger said in a statement afterwards.
He said the Atkins and Zone diets diet raised HDL by about 15 percent,
Weight Watchers by 18.5 percent, and Ornish by 2.2 percent.

Ornish said doctors often place too high a value on high HDL levels. "If
you reduce fat, there is less garbage, less saturated fat and cholesterol,
so your body needs less garbage trucks," he said.

But Dansinger said his study was one of several that has suggested the
high-fat Atkins diet, in the short-term, does not raise the risk of heart
disease.


-- Steve
º¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤º
Steve Chaney

Remove "kfc." to get my real email address

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Steve Chaney did not write that. It was a forgery from an anonymous
remailer by an anonymous coward. The real Steve Chaney uses

(Steve Chaney, NR's Tormentor ®)

and his sig line reads:

º¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤º
Steve Chaney

Remove "NRismykicktoy" to get my real email address

On 18 Nov 2003 19:19:58 +0100, (Steve Chaney, NR's Tormentee ®) did NOT write:

Is one diet better than the others?


NR

"I retract part of it. Mark Kaufman posted to clear the matter up -
apparently you issued death threats to him in a posting. The e-mail
threatening sodomizing all females in his family was from *another*
brain-dead mental case."
- -- Steve Novak, admitting Steve Chaney never threatened to sodomize
anyone's daughter
Message-ID:

"Outside of this group, I don't remember hearing anyone in RL say
that fat people are worthless."
- Jade, admitting the truth
Message-ID:

"Jade, your whole existence is spent trying to find people you can
justify vetting your rage toward thorugh all forms of harassment. Do
you realize that?"
- Sunny, on Jade's life in a nutshell
Message-ID:

"Hey Rauni. How's Vivian? DEAD?"
- Mike Cranston, gloating over the violent death of a woman's daughter
Message-ID:

"What's the difference between that and her taking a crack at my dead
mother?"
- Mike the statutory rapist Cranston, justifying why he's gloating
over the violent death of a woman's daughter,
Message-ID:

"As I said I hope your child is molested."
- pedophile Jim Dutton, advocating child molestation for a black
woman's preteen daughter
Message-ID:

"Does your daughter swallow?"
- pedophile Jim Dutton, making sexual passes at preteen girls
Message-ID:

"NIce try coward. What are you flying your daughter in for one
of those 500 man ****s?"
- pedophile Jim Dutton and his fantasies about preteen girls
Message-ID:

"Liar. You stated I wouldn't have the balls to talk about your
duaghter getting molested to your face. I said I would. Then you
play the victim. Just like chaney. Just like odious. YOu're freaks
with no integrity. I say i would tell your daughter what a sick
depraved pig you are and I'll tell her how you laughed when chaney
talked about her, strange men on the internet and vaseline."
- pedophile Jim Dutton offering to speak of his fantasies about child
molestation to the mother of that child, face to face
Message-ID:

"Another option would be to run. Presumably you can outrun the
wife and kids, and you can replace them."
- How Dan "Sex Bots" Mocsny would deal with a thug threatening his
family,
Message-ID:

"kimtard when you were barefoot cold and hungry back in asia
before you became a refugee in nocountry refugee filled same
sex marriage canada, did you often hope your father
would have a really good day where he earned enough money to
buy and bring home some dog meat?" - Jim Ledford, racist klansman
redneck dissing an Asian woman,
Message-ID:

"From up on a hill top once I watched as agent orange was
being sprayed. I knew there were U.S. Army Patrols in that valley
and I wondered. You know the rest of the nam vets fight on
that one." - Jim Ledford, fake Vietnam Vet
Message-ID:


==============
Anyone who wishes to ask Mike about his violent threats, his racist
remarks, or his gloats about the violent deaths of young women, can
contact him he

Cranston, Michael James
Address: 6529 21st Ave NW
City, ST Zip: Seattle, WA 98117-5745

Business Phone: (206) 783-2012
E-Mail:
WSBA Attorney Registration Number: 16122
==============


==============
Anyone who wishes to ask Jim Dutton about his child molestation
remarks, can contact him he

Jim Dutton
11S032 West St.
Naperville, IL 60565
==============


==============
Anyone who wishes to talk to Jim Ledford about his racial slurs
and false claims of service in Vietnam, contact him at:

Jim Ledford
1133-B Marshburn Rd.
WENDELL NC 27591
==============


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: N/A

yELuPPvGBg7bMpW/BdGVPhUnXwygEDCe/ok7g441vSez=Gg++E=84VMU1gsSP5+4
/QT4KCKz=zM/UTkBixJndx7e
=9nzP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----