Not exact matches
As you remove certain problem food
groups from your
diet, you want to
replace them with nutrient - dense real food, not the processed products from the shelves of the grocery store that are labeled in such a way to draw you in and entice you.
Co-author Sarah Illingworth said: «It's important to consider which food
groups should be used to
replace carbohydrates when altering
diet.
The modified
diet tested by Reynolds»
group included a coconut oil derivative known as a medium - chain triglyceride, which plays a crucial role because it
replaces some carbohydrates as an energy source.
Participants were randomly assigned either to the
group eating the then - standard
diet, which was high in animal fats and margarines, or to a
group in which vegetable oil and corn oil margarine
replaced about half of those saturated fats.
As the experimental
group were told to go on a semi vegetarian
diet they would have
replaced the animal products with plant based foods or fruits and so have had a significant overall increase in anti oxidants and nutrients.
In a study of forty overweight women between 20 and 35 years of age that were randomly divided into 2
groups who consumed meal replacements containing either white rice or mixture of brown rice and black rice, it was concluded that
replacing meals with mixed rice was superior to white rice for weight control, and improved antioxidant enzyme activity, and as such, should be recommended for
diet therapy in obese women.
In 2001, Hooper's
group concluded a similar analysis of 27 studies and concluded that overall dietary fat should be reduced, and some saturated fat remaining in the
diet should be
replaced by unsaturated fat.
Studies done with nuts are often using a control
group eating a terrible SAD
diet, and if the nuts are
replacing a really bad food, then sure, there will be an improvement.
People who
replaced saturated fat in their
diet with polyunsaturated fat (omega 3/6) reduce their risk of coronary heart disease by 19 percent, compared with control
groups of people who do not.
The Mediterranean
diet group was placed on a moderate fat, restricted calorie program rich in vegetables and low in red meat, with poultry and fish
replacing beef and lamb.
The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a
diet in which some of the carbohydrate was
replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control
groups fed a
diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.