Sentences with phrase «effects than their cholesterol»

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It is likely that molecules other than cholesterol — the lipid and protein molecules on the surface of the HDL particle — are responsible for the protective effects of HDL particles against heart disease.

Far more money has gone into improving efficiencies in the dairy industry or studying the cholesterol - reducing effects of red wine than into understanding human breast milk.

«Both controlled - feeding studies that have examined the effects of trans fat on blood cholesterol and epidemiological studies of trans - fat intake in relation to the risk of heart disease and diabetes indicate they are considerably worse than saturated fats,» he says.

Tests of drug effects often rely on short - term surrogate indicators (say, change in cholesterol level), for instance, rather than eventual meaningful outcomes (say, heart attacks).

The researchers compared measurements of the three key factors to American Diabetes Association guidelines that were in effect at the time — blood pressure under 130/80 mmHg, LDL (or bad) cholesterol less than 100 mg / dL and blood HbA1c (glycated hemoglobin) under 7 percent.

ApoB backers point to recent analyses that found high apoB levels better predicted patients» likelihood of suffering a heart attack or stroke and a genetic study that showed that reducing apoB had a bigger effect on cardiovascular risk than did reducing LDL cholesterol.

For example, dairy products such as cheese have a lesser effect on blood cholesterol than would be predicted on the basis of their content of saturated fat.

No fewer than 28 clinical trials in humans have shown that pantethine produces significant positive changes in triglycerides, LDL cholesterol, and VLDL, along with increases in HDL cholesterol.5 In all of these trials, virtually no adverse effects were noted.

Nothing would please me more than to be able to use butter instead, but should I be worried about its effect on my cholesterol level?

not sure if anyone mentioned this, best phrased by peat himself:» I encourage people to eat sweet fruits, rather than starches, if they want to increase their production of cholesterol, since fructose has that effect.»

Rather than rehash the story you can read on hundreds of other sites, I'd rather tell you about how to be sure red yeast rice works for you for lowering cholesterol without any red yeast rice side effects such as muscle pain and memory loss.

Within 3 weeks of the above changes, and eating smaller, more frequent meals, I no longer had elevated blood sugar and my cholesterol, though not as low as I would like, dropped more than it ever did taking statins, which I stopped because of the side effects.

For this reason, children who drink skim milk have diarrhea at rates three to five times greater than children who drink whole milk.12 Cholesterol in butterfat promotes health of the intestinal wall and protects against cancer of the colon.13 Short and medium chain fatty acids protect against pathogens and have strong anti-fungal effects.14 Butter thus has an important role to play in the treatment of candida overgrowth.

In fact, associations may actually be stronger for soluble fiber than for insoluble fiber, for physiologic reasons, such as a cholesterol - lowering effect (38, 39).

A 26 week - long double - blinded study found that the benefits of resistant starch had a more profound effect on lowering LDL cholesterol than cholesterol - lowering medications (statins).7

Even though grapefruits alone don't do much, the researchers suggest that people might be more likely to stick with them than cholesterol - lowering drugs, noting that most people with heart disease stop taking their statin drugs within a couple years, because of the adverse side effects, whereas grapefruit alone don't have any side effects.

If you take too much zinc (more than 50 mg absorbed) that can have negative effects — weakening of immune system, metabolic rate and HDL (good cholesterol) decrease, compromise muscle recovery and growth, interfere with copper uptake.

As you age, your skin loses its ability to produce necessary nutrients to protect it from the damaging effects of the sun's UV rays, and adding berberine to your daily regimen can help in more ways than one; this plant compound has many beneficial medicinal purposes, such as helping to control blood sugar, cholesterol and even heart disease.

In contrast, large reviews of previous trials suggest that very LC diets may have less favorable effects on LDL cholesterol than conventional high - carb, low - fat diets (13, 14).

Paleolithic nutrition resulted in greater short - term improvements than did the control diets (random - effects model) for waist circumference (mean difference: − 2.38 cm; 95 % CI: − 4.73, − 0.04 cm), triglycerides (− 0.40 mmol / L; 95 % CI: − 0.76, − 0.04 mmol / L), systolic blood pressure (− 3.64 mm Hg; 95 % CI: − 7.36, 0.08 mm Hg), diastolic blood pressure (− 2.48 mm Hg; 95 % CI: − 4.98, 0.02 mm Hg), HDL cholesterol (0.12 mmol / L; 95 % CI: − 0.03, 0.28 mmol / L), and fasting blood sugar (− 0.16 mmol / L; 95 % CI: − 0.44, 0.11 mmol / L).

Acne is so strongly linked to overall diet and health that the increased cholesterol could simply be another side effect, rather than a cause.

Hence a low carb diet often lowers high LDL; but sometimes has the opposite effect (because hyperinsulinaemia can lower LDL; there is more to regulating LDL levels than whether cholesterol production is going up or down).

An effect of walnuts on ex vivo cholesterol efflux was observed with whole serum but not apoB - depleted serum; in addition to HDL, LDL can serve as an acceptor of free cholesterol in the reverse cholesterol transport pathway (39), indicating that walnuts may have a greater effect on global cholesterol efflux than HDL - specific efflux.

This study was designed to analyse the effect of fenugreek seeds themselves, rather than fenugreek extract, on blood sugar and cholesterol levels in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Finally, clinical studies have not yielded consistent evidence for adverse effects of saturated fat on CVD risk factors other than LDL cholesterol, although reduced insulin sensitivity and increased inflammation have been reported in animal and cellular studies.

A meta - analysis conducted last year of more than 100 studies found a strong positive effect of saturated fat on both HDL and LDL cholesterol, such that the total to HDL cholesterol ratio is minimally affected by saturated fat.