Blow to low carb diet as landmark study finds high fibre cuts heart disease risk

The Guardian ^ | Sarah Boseley

[RoosterRedux]

Eating more fibre, found in wholegrain cereals, pasta and bread as well as nuts and pulses, will cut people’s chances of heart disease and early death, according to a landmark review commissioned by the World Health Organization.

The authors of the review, which will inform forthcoming WHO guidelines, say their findings are good news – but incompatible with fashionable low-carb diets.

The research is led by Prof Jim Mann’s team at the University of Otago in New Zealand, who also carried out the major review that informed WHO guidance on curbing sugar in the diet, leading to sugar taxes around the world.

Sugar is a “bad” carbohydrate, but fibre is found in “good” carbohydrates such as wholegrain bread and oat-based muesli. However, the overwhelming backlash against sugar has led to popular diets that reject carbohydrates, including the fibrous sort that can, say the scientists, save lives.

Mann told the Guardian that the research “does contribute to the debate considerably. Here we have got very strong evidence that a high-fibre diet, which for the majority of people is at least high-ish in carbohydrates, has an enormous protective effect – a wide range of diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer benefit from a high-carbohydrate diet.”

[Celtic Conservative]

Next week they’ll say something different. The key to long life: don’t die.

CC

[vannrox]

The secret to long life is wine, smoking cigars, and lot’s of sex. You can also add eating red meat, nice bacon (it must be cooked to a crisp) and plenty of delicious cheese.

Humans are carnivorous. We need meat and the pleasures of life to inspire us to live.

[kingu]

And I’ll suspect that it’ll lead to major taxes on ‘low fiber foods’ such as meats, to go along with the taxes on sugars, as the architect of agenda research pushes forward yet another ‘major discovery’ of a new tax source.

[Celtic Conservative]

If that’s true then I’m functionally immortal.

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[Yosemitest]

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For decades, we have been told that the best possible diet involves cutting back on fat, especially saturated fat, and that if we are not getting healthier or thinner it must be because we are not trying hard enough.
But what if the low-fat diet is itself the problem ?
What if the very foods we’ve been denying ourselves — the creamy cheeses, the sizzling steaks — are themselves the key to reversing the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease ?

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Science shows that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades
and that we can now, guilt-free, welcome these delicious foods back into our lives.

[RoosterRedux]

I’ll check it out. Looks tasty.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The secret to long life is wine, smoking cigars, and lot’s of sex. You can also add eating red meat, nice bacon (it must be cooked to a crisp) and plenty of delicious cheese.

Don't forget nutritious snacks like Candied Ghost Pepper Bacon

[McGruff]

[SauronOfMordor]

Fruits like apples and strawberries are also good sources of fiber. I’ve been cutting down on grains and increasing fruits and vegetables.

[SunkenCiv]

That just shows what a-holes write this dietary **** for leftist global warming shill sheets. Fiber cancels carb, so having fiber is important in Atkins (for example); veggies are important in Atkins (not just ANY veggie, which is the approach of the vegan drones); counting carbs is different than counting calories, that is key to the success of the Atkins diet. Takes discipline and information, just as any other diet does. But it works.

[rarestia]

People are flocking to low carb diets because they facilitate weight loss! What’s more important to heart health: eating grains to lower cholesterol or dropping excess weight to lower resting HR, BP, and the incidence of stroke? I’ve been living a low carb lifestyle for over 10 years and my cholesterol is remarkably low along with the rest of my heart health markers. They’re trying to revive an industry that is limping along due to the widening public understanding that sugar and carbs are the cause for our expanding waistlines and need to be moderated.

[RoosterRedux]

I changed from low carb to low starch and haven't noticed a change in weight or other factors. Weight was already low due to low carb.

I have added a huge amount of fiber and that has produced a positive change (if you know what I mean).;-)

[RoosterRedux]

BTW, I recently added back All Bran (Buds) cereal in the morning. Too early to notice a change except in regularity.

I am also focusing more on net carbs (total minus fiber). Still too early to notice a change.

[right way right]

WHO?
Who believes them?

[9YearLurker]

Artichokes are the perfect food for low carb, high fiber dieters. A medium choke can give you 10 grams of fiber and only 3 grams of non-fiber carbs.

[IamConservative]

’ve been living a low carb lifestyle for over 10 years and my cholesterol is remarkably low

I've never been a big sweets eater and for a year now have limited carbs to under 40 per day. At my most recent check, my cholesterol had dropped to 117. I've not seen a link between cholesterol you eat and cholesterol in the blood, but there is definitely a link between cholesterol in the blood and sugars/carbs.

[TalBlack]

Who, by now, hasn’t figured out ‘all things in moderation’?

[TalBlack]

Science shows that we have been needlessly avoiding meat, cheese, whole milk, and eggs for decades”

Not me. Starting with the sudden jihad against eggs which popped seemingly out of nowhere when I was 11 or 12, I have ignored it all. The margarine is better than butter jihad still makes me laugh.

[thirdgradeteacher]

Moderation and exercise is all we hear but it is not working. Low carb does!