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Pastimes : Heart Attacks, Cancer and strokes. Preventative approaches
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (347)7/28/2008 9:01:48 AM
From: jrhana  Read Replies (3) of 39297
 
Well for me bread is indeed the very staff of life so I am not about to give it up. I am more concerned with my diet's effect on my cardiovascular system than I am about weight loss. I believe that avoiding bleached flour and sugar is important and that eating products labeled whole grain is far superior.

Phase 1 of the the South Florida diet is more like an induction phase for your typical overweight office junkie who is addicted to doughnuts, pizza, sodas etc. Phase 2 is a test transition to phase 3 where you spend your life and where some whole grains are indeed acceptable.

I see Atkins is being pushed here and it has its passionate adherents. I don't buy that it is necessarily as good for your cardiovascular system as a Mediterranean type diet would be.
Although I can see that for someone desperate to lose a lot of weight that it could be life saving perhaps when combined with statins.

This is a field where proof is hard to come by. There is a lot of data but which data do you believe? I do know that there are many intelligent observers that are convinced that the Atkins diet is detrimental for one's cardiovascular health.

Some observers are also convinced that a vegetarian type of diet acts to prevent many forms of cancers there are possible trade offs everywhere.

But hey, I do hope saturated fats prove out OK, because I love my marbled steak and all the drippings. I could give up animal fats easier than I could bread however.
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