The main conclusion was that consumption of polyphenols from different foods at the highest estimated level (469 mg per day) reduced the risk of developing metabolic syndrome by 23% compared with the lowest polyphenol consumption (177 mg per day).
“Regardless of the various cardiometabolic risk factors, such as sex, age, smoking and physical activity, participants who ingested more polyphenols were up to 30 times less likely to develop high blood pressure or insulin resistance, and 17 times less likely to have elevated triglycerides.”
I am going to live forever.
(So far, so good)
three of my favorite things in life...
Just switched over to decaffeinated green tea from gas station coffee. Tasty.
Well, i got the chocolate and wine covered...it’s somethiing :)
So if I eat a Bacchanal diet of grapes, wine, chocolate and coffee I’m going to be... healthy?!
I could eat my weight in dark chocolate. That is a lot of chocolate.
Good to know, I guess.
It would be more useful if we knew what metabolic syndrome is.
I had a poster in my cubicle at work:
Death Before Decaf!
“”consumption of polyphenols””
One of our FAVORITE sources of polyphenols is fresh popcorn!
Yesh!
I never ate or purchased ACAI.
It sounds like some of those fun, tropical fruits, like Kiwi, Mango, Raspberries, many of which Ma Nature ‘will not allow’ me to eat except in minute amounts, or risk an allergic reaction.
I endorse this research. Don’t do wine but otherwise they’ve got all the right plants, grapes, berries, coffee and chocolate.
These are the scientists I want for testing the merits of pizza and bacon.
My mom drank tea in large quantities, drank a glass of red wine every night, ate chocolate every day and cooked with lard, bacon grease and butter. She lived to be 93. Her sister made it 96 on a similar regiment.
bkmk
I suspect that they changed their conclusions once RFK was confirmed as they had to fear RFK wanting to ‘have a look’ at their data.
(in my best Jim from Taxi impression) :
Well, okey dokey.
Don’t forget cinnamon
From ChatGPT:
is it fair to say that cinnamon has a broad effect across the metabolic syndrome?
Yes, it is fair to say that cinnamon has a broad effect across metabolic syndrome. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. These conditions include insulin resistance, hyperglycemia, obesity, high blood pressure, and dyslipidemia.
I like the list except for. the grapes. I’ll buy concord grapes in season but most of the rest of them are just sugar bombs.
I do eat plenty of blue berries, black berries, strawberries plus cranberries when they’re in season.
I wonder why none of those made the list.