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<blockquote data-quote="Nelson Vergel" data-source="post: 2238" data-attributes="member: 3"><p>Good point, Marco. Good article.</p><p></p><p>"Malhotra cites a 2009 <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/university-of-california-los-angeles-OREDU0000192268.topic" target="_blank">UCLA</a> study showing that three-quarters of patients admitted to the hospital with acute myocardial infarction do not have high total cholesterol; what they do have, at a rate of 66%, is metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of worrying signs including <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/physical-conditions/high-blood-pressure-HEPHC0000023.topic" target="_blank">hypertension</a>, high fasting blood sugar, abdominal obesity, high triglycerides and low HDL ("good" cholesterol).Meanwhile, research has shown that when people with high LDL cholesterol (the "bad" kind) purge their diet of saturated fats, they lower one kind of LDL (the large, buoyant particles called "Type A" LDL), but not the small, dense particles ("Type B" LDL) that are linked to high carbohydrate intake and are implicated in heart disease.</p><p>Recent research has also shown that <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/diets-dieting/mediterranean-diet-HEDI00008.topic" target="_blank">Mediterranean diets</a> -- admittedly skimpy on red meat but hardly light on saturated fats -- have outpaced both statins and <a href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/diets-dieting/low-fat-diet-HEDI000010.topic" target="_blank">low-fat diets</a> as a means of preventing repeat heart attacks. Other research suggests that the saturated fat in dairy foods may protect against hypertension, inflammation and a host of other dysfunctions increasingly linked to heart attacks."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nelson Vergel, post: 2238, member: 3"] Good point, Marco. Good article. "Malhotra cites a 2009 [URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/education/colleges-universities/university-of-california-los-angeles-OREDU0000192268.topic"]UCLA[/URL] study showing that three-quarters of patients admitted to the hospital with acute myocardial infarction do not have high total cholesterol; what they do have, at a rate of 66%, is metabolic syndrome -- a cluster of worrying signs including [URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/physical-conditions/high-blood-pressure-HEPHC0000023.topic"]hypertension[/URL], high fasting blood sugar, abdominal obesity, high triglycerides and low HDL ("good" cholesterol).Meanwhile, research has shown that when people with high LDL cholesterol (the "bad" kind) purge their diet of saturated fats, they lower one kind of LDL (the large, buoyant particles called "Type A" LDL), but not the small, dense particles ("Type B" LDL) that are linked to high carbohydrate intake and are implicated in heart disease. Recent research has also shown that [URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/diets-dieting/mediterranean-diet-HEDI00008.topic"]Mediterranean diets[/URL] -- admittedly skimpy on red meat but hardly light on saturated fats -- have outpaced both statins and [URL="http://www.latimes.com/topic/health/diets-dieting/low-fat-diet-HEDI000010.topic"]low-fat diets[/URL] as a means of preventing repeat heart attacks. Other research suggests that the saturated fat in dairy foods may protect against hypertension, inflammation and a host of other dysfunctions increasingly linked to heart attacks." [/QUOTE]
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