Posted on 08/15/2019 12:15:14 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
People who follow the Paleo diet often do so for health reasons, eschewing many carbs, especially grains, in favor of lean meats and vegetables. Now, research indicates that this “caveman” style of eating may have hidden dangers to your heart health.
The Paleo diet, which draws nutritional guidelines from the diets of our human ancestors, advocates eating like a hunter and gatherer—consuming lots of meat, vegetables, nuts, and some fruits—while excluding agriculturally-based foods such as grains, legumes, and dairy, along with refined sugar and processed oils.
Though no one would argue the nutritional merits of vegetables and lean protein, pulling whole grains out of the diet may have some harmful hidden consequences with regard to the gut microbiome and how it affects cardiovascular health, according to a new study published in the European Journal of Nutrition.
Researchers from Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, compared the gut microbiomes and levels of trimethylamine-n-oxide (TMAO)—a key blood biomarker strongly associated with heart disease—of 44 people who followed the Paleo diet for at least one year with a similar group of 47 people who followed the recommended Australian diet that includes whole grains.
They discovered that those who ate Paleo had levels of TMAO twice as high as their non-Paleo eating peers.
The reason? A lack of whole grains in the Paleo diet, lead researcher Angela Genoni, Ph.D., said in a press release.
“We found the lack of whole grains were associated with TMAO levels, which may provide a link between the reduced risks of cardiovascular disease we see in populations with high intakes of whole grains,” she said in the release.
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Who paid for the study?
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Umm, being hugely fat will have a negative effect on your heart health. Eating >20g carbs a day and no starches or sugar will dump the weight off of you and get you down so your joints and heart are better off.
You could have easily lost 30 pounds...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2i7_2yfI2s
No matter what you do, you’re gonna die.
Sorry, wrong operator LESS than 20g carbs in a day
Good question.
Monsanto, the wheat farming lobby, and Pepperidge Farm breads.
Remember that everyone who ate only health food during the nineteenth century is dead now.
The people who sell grains. Did you need to ask?
I’ve cut a lot, especially bread and lost maybe 10 pounds in the past few weeks.
Slow go but still going.
I make Keto Ice Cream. It’s not bad, enough to the point where I don’t miss the real thing.
My heart is normal. I’m the only person in my family who is on a permanent low-carb diet and only one of 7 siblings without heart disease.
It is kind of funny. People are looking for esoteric “markers of risk” that they can hope to manage. Current wisdom holds that decreasing your LDL cholesterol is the biggest risk and the HDL, Triglycerides are lessor risks that can also be managed. Once you get down to markers of inflammation and theoretical, esoteric risks trying to manage that while failing to manage “the big ones” is just stupid.
Oh how I have tried to achieve that...
Congrats. I started Tuesday on my diet and plan to lose 10 pounds in a week. A little ambitious but I can do it.
a key blood biomarker strongly associated with heart disease...
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Possibly bad, but by itself it’s almost completely meaningless. I’m not sure about a loose paleo diet, but a low carb diet significantly alters metabolism, how lipids and glycierides are used, and alters a significant portion of the krebs (citric acid) cycle, among other things. In other words, having a higher bio-marker that means one thing in the S.A.D. (standard American diet) could mean something completely different to someone with decrease insulin levels on a fat-generating glycogenic metabolism, and less ability to metabolize fats.
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