Re: The Great "Mediterranean Diet" Fraud.

From: Juhana Harju (shantigiri_at_despammed.com)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:02:41 +0300

adam_becker_sr@yahoo.com wrote:
::: In the public health care there is a lot of talk about
::: dietary means to lower cholesterol but
::: absolutely no advice about lowering inflammation by
::: diet. Isn't that interesting?
::
:: Remember the quality of the advice the US government historically has
:: given about cholesterol and nutrition in general (eat no eggs, use
:: margarine instead of butter, eat high carbs and low fat, omega-6 fats
:: are PUFA and therefor 'good fat', starch is 'complex carbohydrate'
:: and much better for you than sucrose...)
::
:: It's probably just as well they're keeping their collective mouth
:: shut about inflammation.

Yes and I guess the same applies to other countries as well. My opinion
is that the safest policy would be to adopt a diet which would give you
a good total chol:HDL ratio /and/ keep inflammation minimum at the same
time. The Mediterrean diet and especially the Portfolio diet developed
by the Toronto University are pretty good in this respect. They are both
efffective in lowering cholesterol and CRP. 

-- 
Juhana
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