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Article: Vegetarian diet works as well as cholesterol drugs; The study uses a strict diet that includes eggplant, soy and almonds
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- July 23, 2003
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CHICAGO (AP) - 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
might 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 today's Journal of
the American Medical Association.
It involved 46 men and women with high cholesterol ...