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Article: Low-fat vegetarian diet can lower cholesterol, study hints
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 23, 2003
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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 can't 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 and women with high cholesterol levels. ...