According to Dr. Iris Shay of Ben Gurion University, the success in withdrawal is the same in a low-fat, Mediterranean or low-carbohydrate diet and is mediated by the reduction in blood pressure caused by the weight loss
After a two-year clinical trial, the volume of the carotid artery wall was significantly reduced by 60 mm5 (0.015%) with the help of diet alone. The wall volume of the main artery leading to the brain was examined using advanced 5D technology. This significant effect was similar in both a low-fat, Mediterranean diet and a low-carbohydrate diet. These results have a far-reaching meaning in light of the fact that naturally, with increasing age, there is a growing thickening of the artery wall and the sclerotic layer (with age there is an increase of 2 mm per year in the thickness of the carotid wall, an increase of 50 mm1 in the wall area and an increase of XNUMX mmXNUMX in the volume of the carotid wall) and until today, even stopping the process with drugs was considered a success. In comparing those who were observed to be successful in the regression of sclerosis to those who were observed to have persistent thickening, as expected over two years, it was found that those who were successful were significantly characterized by a greater reduction in weight, blood pressure and a blood protein called "homocysteine" and a higher increase in apolipoprotein AXNUMX, a protein carried by the "good" cholesterol HDL. In a multivariate analysis, it was found that a reduction in systolic blood pressure was the most significant and independent factor in the volume and wall thickness (IMT) regressions.
This innovative research was carried out by researchers from Ben-Gurion University, the Nuclear Research Institute (KMG) in Dimona and the Soroka University Medical Center. The research involved international collaboration with experts from Harvard University, USA, the University of Western Ontario in Canada and the University of Leipzig, in Germany.
The head of the international research team, Dr. Iris Shay of Ben-Gurion University, states: "The findings of this study indicate that persistence in healthy dietary patterns has a long-term effect on the regression of sclerosis, even if there is a partial increase in weight that has been reduced over time. It turns out that regression in sclerosis is achieved in a similar way in different alternatives of weight reduction strategies. The effect was evident among people with a moderate tendency to obesity, if during two years they moderately lost at least 5.5 kg in weight and subsequently reduced at least 7 mm Hg in systolic blood pressure. The study shows that a reduction in the blood protein homocysteine and an increase in the protein associated with the good cholesterol HDL are also markers of success in the regression of sclerosis following a transition to a healthy diet."
According to Dr. Dan Schwartzfox, head of the medical department of the Kariya for Nuclear Research (KMG) Dimona, where the research was carried out: "The success of this project among the KMG employees was expressed in the unprecedented persistence of 95% of the participants throughout the first year and 85% in the year The second one apparently shows that the workplace is the ideal location for projects to promote a healthy lifestyle among employees. Also, contrary to unproven assumptions that came up in the past, it was found that a long-term low-carbohydrate diet is safe and effective for weight loss, improving blood markers and even for the retreat of atherosclerosis in the main artery leading to the brain. These findings allow the therapist to offer different alternatives in nutritional treatment for weight loss.
According to Prof. Jacob Henkin, Director of the Clinic for Preventive Cardiology and Blood Lipids at the Soroka Medical Center: "The importance of these findings is in the understanding that over two years, changes in the thickness (IMT) and volume of the carotid wall are predicted mainly by a moderate reduction in systolic blood pressure - a by-product of weight reduction As a result of diet and not by a change in the traditional fatty blood markers."
In the current study, 140 people, most of them men, with an average age of 51 and moderately obese with a BMI=30, were examined over two years. Already in the baseline data, it was found that people whose blood vessel walls were thicker had significantly higher levels of weight, age, blood pressure and insulin levels in the blood. Men had a higher wall volume in the baseline data than women. The subjects were randomly divided into a low-fat, Mediterranean or low-carbohydrate diet. The researchers wanted to check whether a low-carb diet could "clog" the blood vessels. In previous findings among all 322 experimenters (published in the New England Journal of Medicine July 2008) it was found that a low-carbohydrate diet was the most effective in improving the blood lipid profile. The current study confirms that a diet, not only is not dangerous for the blood vessels, but is also effective in "dissolving" the sclerosis.
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Unfortunately, this is another study, one of many, which is worthless to women since the vast majority of its participants were men... It is infuriating and disappointing that the bitter lesson from previous studies, in which most of the researched were men, and whose implementation of their conclusions harmed the health of many women, was not learned... see For example, the case of aspirin... Women, be warned from studies where you read that the vast majority of subjects are men.
How can I get details about a tried low carb diet? If I go to a dietitian, each professional has different recommendations and there is no single all-inclusive recipe, is it possible to get specific information about the diet tried in this article?
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