Nordic Diet Lowers
Cholesterol, Study Finds
A
healthy Nordic diet lowers cholesterol levels, and therefore the risk of
cardiovascular disease, a pan-Nordic study where Lund University participated
has found. There was also decreased inflammation associated with pre-diabetes.
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The
subjects who ate a Nordic diet had lower levels of harmful LDL cholesterol and
higher levels of "good" HDL cholesterol. The amount of harmful fat
particles in the blood also declined, says Lieselotte Cloetens, a biomedical
nutrition researcher at Lund University.
The 'healthy Nordic diet' used in the study contains local produce such as berries, root vegetables, legumes, and cabbage. Nuts, game, poultry and fish are also included, as well as whole grains, rapeseed oil and low-fat dairy products. The rest of the group ate butter instead of rapeseed oil, less berries and vegetables, and had no rules on red meat or white bread intake.
The
researchers now want to focus on the diet's ability to maintain weight loss in
a new study, according to Lieselotte Cloetens, who points out that the problem
with most diets is maintaining the results.
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