Wed, Dec-17-03, 14:44
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Senior Member
Posts: 606
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Plan: PP
Stats: 210/170/170
BF:
Progress: 100%
Location: NJ
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Ornish loses
Get this.
Of the participants who actually completed 12 months on the respective diets, those on the fat-free all-vegetarian Ornish plan had the LEAST improvement in their cardiac risk factors.
QUOTE:
"For 12 month completers percent reductions in weight and risk score were 3.9% and 12.3% for Atkins (n=21, 52% completion), 6.2% and 6.6% for Ornish (n=20, 50% completion), 4.5% and 14.7% for Weight Watchers (n=26, 65% completion), and 4.6% and 10.5% for Zone (n=26, 65% completion)"
It was based on the Framingham score -- which takes into account cholesterol, triglycerides and other factors -- to measure cardiac risk. (At least in the conventional view.)
Now that's BIZARRE. Ornish markets his fatless vegetarian diet as THE diet for preventing heart disease. And virtually every cardiac patient is put on some low-fat diet.
Yet Atkins, the Zone, and even the Weight Watchers diet improved cardiac risk profiles MORE than Ornish did.
But of course, no one will pay a lick of attention to that. Sheesh.
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