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Article: Study: Vegetarian diet may work as well as cholesterol drugs
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- AP Worldstream
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- July 22, 2003
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Dateline: CHICAGO
A low-fat vegetarian diet including soy, eggplant and almonds can
reduce cholesterol levels about as much as widely used statin drugs,
a small, one-month study suggests.
If the findings hold up in a larger, longer study, they could have
broad implications for the millions of people with high cholesterol.
Statin drugs are effective but costlier than adopting a strict vegetarian
diet. Some patients cannot tolerate them, while others may prefer
a non-drug approach.
The study was funded in part by the Canadian government and the Almond
Board of California and was published in Wednesday's Journal of the
American Medical Association.
It involved 46 men ...