Do low-fat diets harm your heart?

Low-Fat May Not Be Best for Heart.

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Hasn't hurt mine.

by James Denison May 4, 2004 4:13AM PDT

Never followed them, ROFL!

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Just goes to show

by Roger NC May 4, 2004 4:23AM PDT

If you don't like what is recommended, wait a bit, someone will say the opposite.

Diet "experts" have reversed course regularly. How can you believe any of them?

Chuckling, not that I've paid enough attention I guess (you only have to look at me to know I've not worshipped any diet plan.)

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20 minutes ago

by Dan McC May 4, 2004 4:42AM PDT

I was listening to a Dr. on the radio. (This was an NIH funded guy being interviewed on WNYC, not one of those AM 'fat buster' docs.) Who has been studying the molecular biology of aging for the last 8+ years. It seems the most effective way to extend the length of life and limit illness is to have a very low calorie diet. There's a gene that gets activated when the cells are operating at very low caloric levels that impedes aging. It works great in yeast and rodents. I can't imagine that he'll ever be able to do a longitudinal study of this diet because of the high noncompliance rates. He also said he expects a drug to perform the same function in the next 10 years.

Tenured MIT biology professor Dr. Lenny Guarente.

Dan

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If is the same level of low calorie

by Roger NC May 4, 2004 5:09AM PDT

that was on a TV special a few years ago, or rather an interview with a few people following the guidelines, it's extremely low, barely above starvation.

And it requires very careful balencing of what you eat and heavy suppliments to help get what you will miss in food.

I wonder how long do you want to live at subsistence calorie level, and never have ice cream and pie again? Ok, extreme, but one guy they interviewed I remember was one of those bean sprouts and such type diet, at bare minimum calories to avoid starvation responses.

Ok, so there are probably some point between overeating and starving that would do all of us some good.

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Re: If is the same level of low calorie

by Dave Konkel [Moderator] May 4, 2004 5:31AM PDT

Hi, Roger.

I happen to work with people researching in this area, and it is indeed the VERY low calorie diet. My question is, who would WANT to live longer under those conditions?!

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Exactly the point the doc raised.

by Dan McC May 4, 2004 6:07AM PDT

That's why he's working on the drug to activate that gene.

Dan

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Re:Re: If is the same level of low calorie

by Roger NC May 4, 2004 7:49AM PDT

My overweight condition would certainly place me in the "not me" category as far as wanting to live under those conditions.

But I have to concede that for some, especially perhaps those that live for extreme physical thrills, eating just enough to maintain their level of activity and living might be enough. So folks seem to have an almost take it or leaving approach to food. Amazing, and unfathomable to me.

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