Now, new results from a powerful, large-scale new study*...
*Paid for by the National Beef Association
Posted on 02/21/2022 9:28:05 AM PST by ConservativeMind
A sufficient intake of vegetables is important for maintaining a balanced diet and avoiding a wide range of diseases. But might a diet rich in vegetables also lower the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Unfortunately, researchers found no evidence for this.
Now, new results from a powerful, large-scale new study shows that a higher consumption of cooked or uncooked vegetables is unlikely to affect the risk of CVD. They also explain how confounding factors might have explained previous spurious, positive findings.
The researchers used the responses at enrollment of 399,586 participants (of whom 4.5% went on to develop CVD) to questions about their daily average consumption of uncooked versus cooked vegetables. They analyzed the association with the risk of hospitalization or death from myocardial infarction, stroke, or major CVD. They controlled for a wide range of possible confounding factors, including socio-economic status, physical activity, and other dietary factors.
The mean daily intake of total vegetables, raw vegetables, and cooked vegetables was 5.0, 2.3, and 2.8 heaped tablespoons per person. The risk of dying from CVD was about 15% lower for those with the highest intake compared to the lowest vegetable intake. However, this apparent effect was substantially weakened when possible socio-economic, nutritional, and health- and medicine-related confounding factors were taken into account. Controlling for these factors reduced the predictive statistical power of vegetable intake on CVD by over 80%, suggesting that more precise measures of these confounders would have completed explained any residual effect of vegetable intake.
Feng et al. suggest that future studies should further assess whether particular types of vegetables or their method of preparation might affect the risk of CVD.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
I wish my mom were still alive to read that. It would prove to her that I was right all along and all those extra hours I was forced to sit at the dinner table were all for nothing.....
Who paid for this headline?
I think its important to acknowledge, nutritionists and Doctors have been giving us bad advice for a century. They go to school to learn what to say. And they just repeat what they are told by the FDA or CDC. These people don’t know what good nutrition is. They just repeat the guide lines that have caused the fattest nation the world has ever known.
I ate a bottle of those “good-things-for-you” gummies, in 3 days. No more of that!
This study has deliberate systematic errors.
The max # of vegetables consumed is less than a single serving.
You mean cherry juice?
Seventh Day Adventists and Latter Day Saints have similar dietary restrictions except that Mormons aren’t required to be vegetarian, only suggested. Yet steak-eating Mormons on average have a longer lifespan and lower heart disease rates than Seventh Day Adventists.
It's the studies’ authors, and the incredible follow up studies that glom onto the prior famous findings, that taint what happens.
Doctors, their associations, and government “health” entities apparently cannot consistently read between the lines for the bias, yet, they claim to know which studies are authoritative, with many taking decades to be undone, along with all the damage the doctors foisted on people.
- Cholesterol in food is bad
- Sodium intake must be low
- Stay away from Fat / Saturated fat
- Margarine far better than butter
- High carb diets for diabetics
The list goes on, but each of the above have been debunked, after being crammed down everyone, the world over.
These were incredibly basic things that dozens of fake studies then “confirmed.”
Do not ever believe your doctor knows everything important on an issue.
They humanly can't.
She issues “juice?”
I do. Pure cherry juice.
Oh boy. Autocorrect can be really gross right.
Cherry juice.
Now, new results from a powerful, large-scale new study*...
I love cherries. Why the juice and not the actual fruit?
No, the study asked about “heaped tablespoons” of food a day, so if you ate the equivalent of 3,000 calories of just arugula a day, you were put in the highest category.
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.831470/full
Processed foods, what are they? They are about most everything you see in corporate groceries.
Processed foods contain too much omega-6 waste oil because it’s cheap.
Seed oils and oils pressed from agricultural waste are high in omega-6 fatty acids which should be a small ratio to omega-3 but are not. The ratio should be 2 or 3 to 1. Instead, with cheap processing of foods, the ratio is more like 30 to 1.
Consuming omega oils in diet affects cell mitochondria.
With omega-3 oils, the mitochondria are doused with molecules that boost their performance making the body feel normal with energy.
With omega-6 oils, the mitochondria are roughed up with molecules, like spraying sand into a carburetor. The body feels sluggish and starts to gain weight.
Look up which oils are high in omega-6. Then make a list and start to memorize them. Here are a few:
Soybean oil including lecithin.
Canola oil.
Sunflower oil.
Grapeseed oil.
Many others.
Here are a few that are low in omega-6:
Coconut oil.
Butter oil.
Olive oil.
Fish oil.
It’s easier to memorize which are good oils than those that are unhealthy. But even with good oils, be watchful for misleading labels.
Next, when shopping in grocery store chains, read the labels of everything like breads, sauces, dressings, ice creams, baked goods, all packaged foods.
You will in the first month spend hours reading labels. Overtime you will find the foods that are healthy and you will go to them. You will do well to cook from scratch. Invest in kitchen equipment like an air fryer.
After a year of learning and adjusting your diet, making sure to discipline yourself to stay with healthy oils, you will be transformed. It likely took you a long time to get unhealthy, it’s going to take time to reverse course and get healthy.
And you can still eat pies and ice creams as long as they contain healthy oils.
Eat all the butter you want.
Peanuts and peanut oil aren’t bad either but macadamia nuts and oil are very healthy. Other nuts, not so much.
Most important point of all: Peanut Butter constitutes a vegetable. Oh Yeah.
Lift weights. Avoid simple carbs. Avoid seed oils. Eat natural foods as much as possible. Drink lots of water. Get sufficient sleep. Healthy living isn’t really that hard.
5 tablespoons of vegetables is a pathetically small amount. No wonder there was little effect.
Hard to see too many participants getting 3,000 calories of arugula a day given the mean values above and the low energy density of arugula.
Generally the only vegetables I get are in the little corner section of a TV dinner tray, like a few bits of carrots and peas. Well, ok, I take dried vegetables and fruits in capsules, too.
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