The Mediterranean Diet - It's Nuts!

This is old news, but new to me, and maybe to you.

http://blogs.webmd.com/heart-disease/

Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Mediterranean Diet - It's Nuts!

Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors, including high blood
pressure, high blood sugar, high cholesterol levels, and fat in the
midsection that increase one's risk of heart disease and diabetes. Diet,
exercise, and medications have been shown to improve metabolic syndrome
and lower the risk of these complications.

Currently a study called Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMEDD)
has enrolled 9000 high-risk participants aged 55 to 80 years who are
assigned to one of three interventions: Mediterranean diet with the
provision of 1 L/week of virgin olive oil, Mediterranean diet with 30
g/day of mixed nuts, or a low-fat diet. This is a long-term,
multi-center, randomized controlled clinical trial is designed to assess
the effects of the Mediterranean diet on the primary prevention of
cardiovascular disease. (Primary prevention means the prevention of a
disease that the person has never had before. Compare this to secondary
prevention which means preventing a person who is known to have high
cholesterol and blockages in the arteries from having a heart attack).

Already data from 1224 participants in the study have shown that
adhering to a Mediterranean diet supplemented with mixed nuts appears to
provide benefit to individuals with the metabolic syndrome.
Investigators observed a reduced prevalence of metabolic syndrome at one
year among individuals adhering to the Mediterranean diet plus mixed
nuts compared with those adhering to the traditional Mediterranean diet
alone.

"The novelty of our findings is that a positive effect on metabolic
syndrome was achieved by diet alone, in the absence of weight loss or
increased energy expenditure," wrote lead investigator Dr Jordi
Salas-Salvadó (University of Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain) and
colleagues in the December 8/22, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal
Medicine. At the beginning of this study, nearly 62% of the participants
met the criteria for metabolic syndrome. After one year the rate of
metabolic syndrome dropped by nearly 13.7% in the patients assigned to
the Mediterranean diet plus mixed nuts, 6.7% in those consuming a
Mediterranean diet alone, and only 2% among those on the traditional
low-fat diet. (Is there anyone left out there who still thinks the
ill-advised, poorly researched, low-fat diet benefited anyone but the
companies making carbohydrate-rich junk foods?)

The beneficial effects of the diet happened without an increase in
exercise habits, calories burned, or weight loss and add to the evidence
that diets enriched with nuts do not induce weight gain, noted the
authors. This author does note however that the amount of nuts was
limited to 30 grams a day, which is one ounce or about 2 tablespoons).
The researchers aren't sure yet what caused the improvement, but think
that the diet plus mixed-nuts intervention may have positive effects on
insulin resistance. Another possibility is the diet's effects on other
factors such as oxidative stress and its related inflammation in the
blood vessels. Previous analysis of the data have shown that the
Mediterranean diet coupled with nuts protects against oxidative damage
and reduces cardiovascular risk factors better than a low-fat diet.

Source: Salas-Salvadó J, Fernández-Ballart J, Ros E, et al. Effect of a
Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts on metabolic syndrome status.
Arch Intern Med 2008; 168: 2449-2458.
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Wildbilly wrote:

This is old news, but new to me, and maybe to you.

Let's call it an oldie but a goodie then.

Currently a study called Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMEDD)
has enrolled 9000 high-risk participants aged 55 to 80 years who are
assigned to one of three interventions: Mediterranean diet with the
provision of 1 L/week of virgin olive oil,

When I read the "one liter of olive oil per week" my response had so
many words bleeped out it was like I was watching an episode of Cops. I
get that it would replace all other oils, but an entire liter each week?
No wonder that group isn't the one who had the benefits. I eat a lot
of fat but I think if I drained all of it out and replaced it with
olive oil I'd have some left over each week. I don't even no how I
would go about draining the fat out of my cheese to replace it with
olive oil ...

Mediterranean diet with 30
g/day of mixed nuts, or a low-fat diet. This is a long-term,
multi-center, randomized controlled clinical trial is designed to assess
the effects of the Mediterranean diet on the primary prevention of
cardiovascular disease. (Primary prevention means the prevention of a
disease that the person has never had before. Compare this to secondary
prevention which means preventing a person who is known to have high
cholesterol and blockages in the arteries from having a heart attack).

Already data from 1224 participants in the study have shown that
adhering to a Mediterranean diet supplemented with mixed nuts appears to
provide benefit to individuals with the metabolic syndrome.
Investigators observed a reduced prevalence of metabolic syndrome at one
year among individuals adhering to the Mediterranean diet plus mixed
nuts compared with those adhering to the traditional Mediterranean diet
alone.

That's a small amount of nuts, but it's added to the menu. Has anyone
used nuts as a meat replacement? I do that in maybe 4 meals per year.
I use soy to replace the meat in a meal more often than that.

My advertising blurb for "Think globally, act locally" - Include brazil
nuts in the mix as well as walnuts. Both make managing a forest of slow
growing long lived trees profitable. I'd eat baobob nuts if I ever saw
any in stores.

"The novelty of our findings is that a positive effect on metabolic
syndrome was achieved by diet alone, in the absence of weight loss or
increased energy expenditure," wrote lead investigator Dr Jordi
Salas-Salvadó (University of Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain) and
colleagues in the December 8/22, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal
Medicine. At the beginning of this study, nearly 62% of the participants
met the criteria for metabolic syndrome. After one year the rate of
metabolic syndrome dropped by nearly 13.7% in the patients assigned to
the Mediterranean diet plus mixed nuts, 6.7% in those consuming a
Mediterranean diet alone, and only 2% among those on the traditional
low-fat diet. (Is there anyone left out there who still thinks the
ill-advised, poorly researched, low-fat diet benefited anyone but the
companies making carbohydrate-rich junk foods?)

Speculation on benefits from such a small amount of mixed nuts - Nuts
have essential polyunsaturated fatty acids. Maybe when an assortment of
nuts are added to the menu it resolves a sub-clinical deficiency in some
of the test subjects. A sub-clinical deficiency would be handled by a
small supplement like that. It's not the only possible explanation but
I tihnk it very likely. That and the benefits of eating mostly fresh
foods ...

The beneficial effects of the diet happened without an increase in
exercise habits, calories burned, or weight loss and add to the evidence
that diets enriched with nuts do not induce weight gain, noted the
authors. This author does note however that the amount of nuts was
limited to 30 grams a day, which is one ounce or about 2 tablespoons).
The researchers aren't sure yet what caused the improvement, but think
that the diet plus mixed-nuts intervention may have positive effects on
insulin resistance. Another possibility is the diet's effects on other
factors such as oxidative stress and its related inflammation in the
blood vessels. Previous analysis of the data have shown that the
Mediterranean diet coupled with nuts protects against oxidative damage
and reduces cardiovascular risk factors better than a low-fat diet.

Source: Salas-Salvadó J, Fernández-Ballart J, Ros E, et al. Effect of a
Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts on metabolic syndrome status.
Arch Intern Med 2008; 168: 2449-2458.

In article ,
Doug Freyburger wrote:

Wildbilly wrote:

This is old news, but new to me, and maybe to you.

Let's call it an oldie but a goodie then.

Currently a study called Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMEDD)
has enrolled 9000 high-risk participants aged 55 to 80 years who are
assigned to one of three interventions: Mediterranean diet with the
provision of 1 L/week of virgin olive oil,

When I read the "one liter of olive oil per week" my response had so
many words bleeped out it was like I was watching an episode of Cops. I
get that it would replace all other oils, but an entire liter each week?
No wonder that group isn't the one who had the benefits. I eat a lot
of fat but I think if I drained all of it out and replaced it with
olive oil I'd have some left over each week. I don't even no how I
would go about draining the fat out of my cheese to replace it with
olive oil ...

Fortunately, that was only one of three choices: Mediterranean diet with
the provision of 1 L/week of virgin olive oil, Mediterranean diet with
30 g/day of mixed nuts, or a low-fat diet. Nuts, seeds, and olive oil
can easily fit into most peoples diets, unless of course they have
diverticulitis.

This all seems to tie-in with Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of
Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and his endorsement of the
Paleolithic diet for the cure to modern ills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM


Mediterranean diet with 30
g/day of mixed nuts, or a low-fat diet. This is a long-term,
multi-center, randomized controlled clinical trial is designed to assess
the effects of the Mediterranean diet on the primary prevention of
cardiovascular disease. (Primary prevention means the prevention of a
disease that the person has never had before. Compare this to secondary
prevention which means preventing a person who is known to have high
cholesterol and blockages in the arteries from having a heart attack).

Already data from 1224 participants in the study have shown that
adhering to a Mediterranean diet supplemented with mixed nuts appears to
provide benefit to individuals with the metabolic syndrome.
Investigators observed a reduced prevalence of metabolic syndrome at one
year among individuals adhering to the Mediterranean diet plus mixed
nuts compared with those adhering to the traditional Mediterranean diet
alone.

That's a small amount of nuts, but it's added to the menu. Has anyone
used nuts as a meat replacement? I do that in maybe 4 meals per year.
I use soy to replace the meat in a meal more often than that.

My advertising blurb for "Think globally, act locally" - Include brazil
nuts in the mix as well as walnuts. Both make managing a forest of slow
growing long lived trees profitable. I'd eat baobob nuts if I ever saw
any in stores.

"The novelty of our findings is that a positive effect on metabolic
syndrome was achieved by diet alone, in the absence of weight loss or
increased energy expenditure," wrote lead investigator Dr Jordi
Salas-Salvadó (University of Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain) and
colleagues in the December 8/22, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal
Medicine. At the beginning of this study, nearly 62% of the participants
met the criteria for metabolic syndrome. After one year the rate of
metabolic syndrome dropped by nearly 13.7% in the patients assigned to
the Mediterranean diet plus mixed nuts, 6.7% in those consuming a
Mediterranean diet alone, and only 2% among those on the traditional
low-fat diet. (Is there anyone left out there who still thinks the
ill-advised, poorly researched, low-fat diet benefited anyone but the
companies making carbohydrate-rich junk foods?)

Speculation on benefits from such a small amount of mixed nuts - Nuts
have essential polyunsaturated fatty acids. Maybe when an assortment of
nuts are added to the menu it resolves a sub-clinical deficiency in some
of the test subjects. A sub-clinical deficiency would be handled by a
small supplement like that. It's not the only possible explanation but
I tihnk it very likely. That and the benefits of eating mostly fresh
foods ...

The beneficial effects of the diet happened without an increase in
exercise habits, calories burned, or weight loss and add to the evidence
that diets enriched with nuts do not induce weight gain, noted the
authors. This author does note however that the amount of nuts was
limited to 30 grams a day, which is one ounce or about 2 tablespoons).
The researchers aren't sure yet what caused the improvement, but think
that the diet plus mixed-nuts intervention may have positive effects on
insulin resistance. Another possibility is the diet's effects on other
factors such as oxidative stress and its related inflammation in the
blood vessels. Previous analysis of the data have shown that the
Mediterranean diet coupled with nuts protects against oxidative damage
and reduces cardiovascular risk factors better than a low-fat diet.

Source: Salas-Salvadó J, Fernández-Ballart J, Ros E, et al. Effect of a
Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts on metabolic syndrome status.
Arch Intern Med 2008; 168: 2449-2458.
--
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull
http://countercurrents.org/roberts020709.htm

On Jan 18, 5:51*pm, Doug Freyburger wrote:
Wildbilly wrote:

This is old news, but new to me, and maybe to you.

Let's call it an oldie but a goodie then.

Currently a study called Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMEDD)
has enrolled 9000 high-risk participants aged 55 to 80 years who are
assigned to one of three interventions: Mediterranean diet with the
provision of 1 L/week of virgin olive oil,

When I read the "one liter of olive oil per week" my response had so
many words bleeped out it was like I was watching an episode of Cops. *I
get that it would replace all other oils, but an entire liter each week?
No wonder that group isn't the one who had the benefits.

If I understand it, the nuts group ate the 30g of nuts a day in
ADDITION to also consuming the liter of olive oil per week. I do
agree it seems like a hell of a lot of olive oil. One can only
wonder are these people really consuming that much for this long term
study? Like you, I think I'd have a hard time doing that for any
extended period. The other question is why such a small amount of
nuts compared to the oil? The obvious next experiment should be to
increase the nuts and decrease the oil.







*I eat a lot
of fat but I think if I drained all of it out and replaced it with
olive oil I'd have some left over each week. *I don't even no how I
would go about draining the fat out of my cheese to replace it with
olive oil ...





Mediterranean diet with 30
g/day of mixed nuts, or a low-fat diet. This is a long-term,
multi-center, randomized controlled clinical trial is designed to assess
the effects of the Mediterranean diet on the primary prevention of
cardiovascular disease. (Primary prevention means the prevention of a
disease that the person has never had before. Compare this to secondary
prevention which means preventing a person who is known to have high
cholesterol and blockages in the arteries from having a heart attack).

Already data from 1224 participants in the study have shown that
adhering to a Mediterranean diet supplemented with mixed nuts appears to
provide benefit to individuals with the metabolic syndrome.
Investigators observed a reduced prevalence of metabolic syndrome at one
year among individuals adhering to the Mediterranean diet plus mixed
nuts compared with those adhering to the traditional Mediterranean diet
alone.

That's a small amount of nuts, but it's added to the menu. *Has anyone
used nuts as a meat replacement? *I do that in maybe 4 meals per year.
I use soy to replace the meat in a meal more often than that.

My advertising blurb for "Think globally, act locally" - Include brazil
nuts in the mix as well as walnuts. *Both make managing a forest of slow
growing long lived trees profitable. *I'd eat baobob nuts if I ever saw
any in stores.

"The novelty of our findings is that a positive effect on metabolic
syndrome was achieved by diet alone, in the absence of weight loss or
increased energy expenditure," wrote lead investigator Dr Jordi
Salas-Salvadó (University of Rovira i Virgili, Reus, Spain) and
colleagues in the December 8/22, 2008 issue of the Archives of Internal
Medicine. At the beginning of this study, nearly 62% of the participants
met the criteria for metabolic syndrome. After one year the rate of
metabolic syndrome dropped by nearly 13.7% in the patients assigned to
the Mediterranean diet plus mixed nuts, 6.7% in those consuming a
Mediterranean diet alone, and only 2% among those on the traditional
low-fat diet. (Is there anyone left out there who still thinks the
ill-advised, poorly researched, low-fat diet benefited anyone but the
companies making carbohydrate-rich junk foods?)

Speculation on benefits from such a small amount of mixed nuts - Nuts
have essential polyunsaturated fatty acids. *Maybe when an assortment of
nuts are added to the menu it resolves a sub-clinical deficiency in some
of the test subjects. *A sub-clinical deficiency would be handled by a
small supplement like that. *It's not the only possible explanation but
I tihnk it very likely. *That and the benefits of eating mostly fresh
foods ...



The beneficial effects of the diet happened without an increase in
exercise habits, calories burned, or weight loss and add to the evidence
that diets enriched with nuts do not induce weight gain, noted the
authors. This author does note however that the amount of nuts was
limited to 30 grams a day, which is one ounce or about 2 tablespoons).
The researchers aren't sure yet what caused the improvement, but think
that the diet plus mixed-nuts intervention may have positive effects on
insulin resistance. Another possibility is the diet's effects on other
factors such as oxidative stress and its related inflammation in the
blood vessels. Previous analysis of the data have shown that the
Mediterranean diet coupled with nuts protects against oxidative damage
and reduces cardiovascular risk factors better than a low-fat diet.

Source: Salas-Salvadó J, Fernández-Ballart J, Ros E, et al. Effect of a
Mediterranean diet supplemented with nuts on metabolic syndrome status.
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Wildbilly wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:
Wildbilly wrote:

Currently a study called Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMEDD)
has enrolled 9000 high-risk participants aged 55 to 80 years who are
assigned to one of three interventions: Mediterranean diet with the
provision of 1 L/week of virgin olive oil,

When I read the "one liter of olive oil per week" my response had so
many words bleeped out it was like I was watching an episode of Cops. I
get that it would replace all other oils, but an entire liter each week?

High fat fan Doug swearing like a sailor over the amount of oil in an
experimental group. Time for me to do the arithmatic and see how much
it really is. A liter is 33-mumble floz. A floz is two tablespoons. A
tablespoon is 14 grams of fat. I liter is 925 grams of fat or 8300
calories of fat for the week. That's 132 grams of fat per day or 1200
calories of fat per day. As long as the rest of their food is low fat
it would work. They would need food that's low glycemic load, check on
the whole grains and such. They would need experimental subjects who
are not wheat intolerant, check on me not eating that food.

The folks on this plan sure aren't going to be hungry *ever* during the
run of the experiment. Whether they lose any weight is a matter of
hormone impact by type of calorie and the total calories they eat other
than the olive oil.

Fortunately, that was only one of three choices: Mediterranean diet with
the provision of 1 L/week of virgin olive oil, Mediterranean diet with
30 g/day of mixed nuts, or a low-fat diet. Nuts, seeds, and olive oil
can easily fit into most peoples diets, unless of course they have
diverticulitis.

This all seems to tie-in with Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of
Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and his endorsement of the
Paleolithic diet for the cure to modern ills.

Paleolithic plans tend to have a rule in common - If you can eat
something raw with no ill effects you can feel free to eat it either raw
or cooked. Olives straight off the tree can *not* be eaten and it takes
techonlogy far in advance of a sharp stick to get the oil out of an
olive.

So I find it strange that a paleolithic supporter would advocate olive
products.

In article ,
Doug Freyburger wrote:

Wildbilly wrote:
Doug Freyburger wrote:
Wildbilly wrote:

Currently a study called Prevención con Dieta Mediterránea (PREDIMEDD)
has enrolled 9000 high-risk participants aged 55 to 80 years who are
assigned to one of three interventions: Mediterranean diet with the
provision of 1 L/week of virgin olive oil,

When I read the "one liter of olive oil per week" my response had so
many words bleeped out it was like I was watching an episode of Cops. I
get that it would replace all other oils, but an entire liter each week?

High fat fan Doug swearing like a sailor over the amount of oil in an
experimental group. Time for me to do the arithmatic and see how much
it really is. A liter is 33-mumble floz. A floz is two tablespoons. A
tablespoon is 14 grams of fat. I liter is 925 grams of fat or 8300
calories of fat for the week. That's 132 grams of fat per day or 1200
calories of fat per day. As long as the rest of their food is low fat
it would work. They would need food that's low glycemic load, check on
the whole grains and such. They would need experimental subjects who
are not wheat intolerant, check on me not eating that food.

The folks on this plan sure aren't going to be hungry *ever* during the
run of the experiment. Whether they lose any weight is a matter of
hormone impact by type of calorie and the total calories they eat other
than the olive oil.

Fortunately, that was only one of three choices: Mediterranean diet with
the provision of 1 L/week of virgin olive oil, Mediterranean diet with
30 g/day of mixed nuts, or a low-fat diet. Nuts, seeds, and olive oil
can easily fit into most peoples diets, unless of course they have
diverticulitis.

This all seems to tie-in with Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of
Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and his endorsement of the
Paleolithic diet for the cure to modern ills.

Paleolithic plans tend to have a rule in common - If you can eat
something raw with no ill effects you can feel free to eat it either raw
or cooked. Olives straight off the tree can *not* be eaten and it takes
techonlogy far in advance of a sharp stick to get the oil out of an
olive.

So I find it strange that a paleolithic supporter would advocate olive
products.

You been drinkin' again, haven't you, Doug. The Mediterranean diet
testing has nothing to do with Robert H. Lustig, MD, except to be in the
paragraph preceding the paragraph in which I mention the good doctors
name. Got another beer?
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"Wildbilly" wrote in message
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This all seems to tie-in with Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of
Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and his endorsement of the
Paleolithic diet for the cure to modern ills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Thank you for posting this URL. Do you know if there is one on transfats
please?

Ophelia - long time lurker.


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In article ,
"Ophelia" wrote:

"Wildbilly" wrote in message
...
This all seems to tie-in with Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of
Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and his endorsement of the
Paleolithic diet for the cure to modern ills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Thank you for posting this URL. Do you know if there is one on transfats
please?

Ophelia - long time lurker.


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Sorry, I don't.
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merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/...ting_activists
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/1/19/headlines

"Wildbilly" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Ophelia" wrote:

"Wildbilly" wrote in message
...
This all seems to tie-in with Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of
Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology and his endorsement of the
Paleolithic diet for the cure to modern ills.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

Thank you for posting this URL. Do you know if there is one on transfats
please?

Ophelia - long time lurker.


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Sorry, I don't.

Ok, thanks anyway. I was very pleased with the URL you did post though
Thanks again!

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