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Eat Like A Caveman For A Healthy Heart
The Telegraph (UK) ^ | 5-8-2008 | Kate Devlin

Posted on 05/08/2008 3:48:51 PM PDT by blam

Eat like a caveman for a healthy heart

By Kate Devlin, Medical Correspondent
Last Updated: 8:28PM BST 08/05/2008

A “caveman diet” of berries, nuts, lean meat and fish could help reduce the risk of developing heart disease, a new study shows.

Scientists found that volunteers who ate the stone age fare for just three weeks had lowered blood pressure and a reduced risk of clots.

They also lost an average of five pounds in weight.

Meat, as long as it is lean, is beneficial

Our early ancestors lived on a diet lacking in cereals, dairy products and refined sugar for centuries before farming developed and some scientists believe that the human body is still best suited to this kind of food.

Volunteers in the trial, run by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, were allowed to eat only foods from a prescribed list, which included fresh or frozen fruit, berries or vegetables, lean meat, unsalted fish, canned tomatoes, lemon or lime juice, spices and coffee or tea without milk or sugar, for three weeks.

All dairy products were banned as well as beans, salt, peanuts, pasta or rice, sausages, alcohol, sugar and fruit juice.

However, participants were allowed up to two potatoes a day.

They were also given some dried fruit, cured meats and a portion of fatty meat as a weekly treat.

After three weeks, the 14 volunteers who completed the study had lost an average of five pounds, the findings, published in the current issue of the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, show.

Systolic blood pressure, the higher of the two readings taken, had fallen by an average of just under 5 per cent, while levels of a clotting agent in the blood, which can cause heart attacks and strokes, dropped by 72 per cent.

Dr Per Wandell, who led the study, said that the research proved that even short term use of the diet had “favourable effects” on the major risk factors for heart disease.

However, he warned that the lack of certain foodstuffs could have other impacts on overall health.

“One negative effect was the decreased intake of calcium (from dairy goods),” he said, “which could be a risk factor for osteoporosis later in life.”

Heart disease is one of the leading killers in Britain. Every year approximately 117,000 deaths in the UK are caused by heart disease, accounting for approximately one in five of all deaths in men and one in six deaths in women.

Previous studies have suggested that the “caveman” diet could offer protection against diabetes.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: caveman; eat; food; freepun; healthy; paleolithicdiet
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To: blam
Just more justification for the life of paleolithic squalor envisioned for the surviving masses by our dirt-worshipping uber-environmentalist overlord wannabes?

Gaia would be pleased...

(/sarc (8^D) )

41 posted on 05/08/2008 5:04:37 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: blam

On this diet, I would lose 5 pounds in 3 days.

Are they nuts?


42 posted on 05/08/2008 5:21:46 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: mysterio

oh yeah. and if you broke a leg forget about it! you were tiger food.


43 posted on 05/08/2008 5:28:16 PM PDT by thefactor (the innocent shall not suffer nor the guilty go free...)
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To: aruanan; Cindy
News flash. Those who don't die of heart disease will die of something else.

It's worse than you think.....

So far almost every human who has consumed Dihydrogen monoxide has died. The governments won't tell us about it, and the CDC is quiet on the subject, but more and more of us are realizing the risk, and making a plan.

44 posted on 05/08/2008 5:32:07 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: fanfan
On this diet, I would lose 5 pounds in 3 days.

Water! As many diets as I've been own I lost enough water to fill the Hoover Dam reservoir. I keep my water now, I'm gonna give it to the Freemen when I die.

45 posted on 05/08/2008 5:57:28 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold

LOL!

See the link at #44.
It must be controlled, only until it can be banned.

;-)


46 posted on 05/08/2008 6:00:43 PM PDT by fanfan ("We don't start fights my friends, but we finish them, and never leave until our work is done."PMSH)
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To: fanfan
They sound like wackos.

excessive sweating and urination, and possibly a bloated feeling, nausea, vomiting and body electrolyte

I sweat excessively! I urinate! I'm bloated! Oh Noooooo, I have it.

Or else it could be. The change made me sweat excessively. I urinate because I'm hydrated - what goes in must come out. My bloated feeling could be because we just finished eating supper not to long ago and I ate like a pig-as usual.

47 posted on 05/08/2008 6:10:50 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold

That should have been Freman, not freemen.


48 posted on 05/08/2008 6:15:07 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: blam

The lean meat part is wrong. Whenever an aboriginal gets a chance, he goes for the fattiest protein - especially liver!


49 posted on 05/08/2008 7:09:46 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: blam

You must geve me BEEF!
poweredbysatan.com

50 posted on 05/08/2008 7:25:21 PM PDT by uglybiker (I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
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To: Lee N. Field
Thanks for the link.
51 posted on 05/08/2008 7:43:08 PM PDT by kitchen (Any day without a fair tax thread is a good day.)
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To: dalebert
they also had many other diseases and very bad teeth.
AFAIK bad teeth comes from refined sugars. berries, nuts and lean meat isn't going to cause much decay.
52 posted on 05/08/2008 7:46:14 PM PDT by ketsu
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To: blam

Chuck Norris doesn’t worry about heart disease. His heart knows better than to stop without permission.


53 posted on 05/08/2008 7:48:25 PM PDT by ChinaThreat (s)
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To: ChinaThreat

Chuck Norris doesn’t worry about heart disease. Heart disease worries about Chuck Norris.


54 posted on 05/08/2008 8:40:36 PM PDT by ChinaThreat (s)
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To: blam

” First Americans Thrived On Seaweed “

There you go !

God put it here for a reason ( not that all seaweed is edible ) . Good for you !


55 posted on 05/09/2008 12:41:05 AM PDT by sushiman
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To: blam

56 posted on 05/09/2008 3:56:10 AM PDT by fredhead (4-cylinder, air cooled, horizontally opposed......THE REAL VW!!!)
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