The American Heart Associations dietary guidelines are making things worse....is what new research is saying.... Interesting read...esp for nurses... Heres one quote from the article... Sticking to these guidelines (low saturated fat diets) has meant ignoring growing evidence that women on diets low in saturated fat actually increase their risk of having a heart attack. The good HDL cholesterol drops precipitously for women on this diet (it drops for men too, but less so). The sad irony is that women have been especially rigorous about ramping up on their fruits, vegetables and grains, but they now suffer from higher obesity rates than men, and their death rates from heart disease have reached parity.
Posted on: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 23:21:53 +0000