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Article: Lean ground beef fortified with soybean phytosterols lowers cholesterol.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- July 21, 2002
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2002 JUL 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Development of long-term diets for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in young men includes the promotion of cholesterol-lowering foods that are familiar and palatable enough to ensure the long-term adherence that is necessary for successful treatment.
O.A. Matvienko and coauthors publishing in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, conducted a trial among 34 young men with elevated cholesterol in which lean ground beef fortified with soybean phytosterols was consumed at lunch every day for four weeks. The men experienced significant reductions in total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) ...