Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Thursday, June 02, 2005

WELL diet reduces blood pressure

"(Reuters Health) Jun 01 - A diet with specified targets for fruit, vegetable and dairy intake -- the WELL diet -- is more effective than a typical low-fat diet in reducing blood pressure, Australian investigators report.

Dr. Caryl A. Nowson and colleagues at Deakin University in Burwood enrolled 54 male volunteers who completed their study. As reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition for May, the subjects had a body mass index between 25 and 35, with systolic blood pressure of 120 mm Hg or higher and diastolic blood pressure of 80 mm Hg or higher. Approximately one third were on antihypertensive medication."

Am J Clin Nutr 2005;81:983-989.

Seen at Medscape.com.

posted by Rosabelle 4:44 PM  

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