As we've
seen, increasing scientific evidence
links diet vitamins high in animal fat
not only
with obesity but also with coronary heart disease, stroke, breast cancer in
women,
prostate cancer in men, colon cancer in both, osteoporosis, diabetes, hypertension,
gallbladder
disease--many of the most prevalent diseases. And these are the illnesses for
which
medicine
does not have very effective treatment.
Breast
cancer, for example, afflicts one in nine American women. If you ask American
physician
what women
can do to prevent breast cancer, they usually reply, mammogram every year after
age forty.
Yet mammograms do not prevent cancer, they detect cancer.
In Japan and
other countries where the consumption of animal fat is much lower, breast
cancer is rare. It's not because their genes are different, when Japanese women
move to the Unite Stares and begin to consuming a high -fat diet, they develop
breast cancer at about the same rate as American -- more than 500 percent
higher than in Japan.
In part,
this may be because a diet high in animal fats increase both in production and
the biological activity of estrogens. Nonvegetarian women have about 50 percent
higher blood estrogen levels than vegetarians. high levels of estrogens, in
turn, promote the growth of many breast tumors. On the Diet Vitamins Choice
Living Well, most people will consume fewer calories than before,
even though they are not eating less food. A diet lower n calories has been
shown to retard aging dramatically prolong the life span of many animals. The
same is probably true in humans but
studies in people would be much more difficult to conduct.
In some of these studies, prolonging life depended not
only on reducing the number of the
calories but also the type of calories. In one study, for example, mice that
were given a calorie restricted, high-fat live twice as long as the mice
allowed to eat all they wanted. Yet when mice were placed on a low fat,
calorie-restricted diet, they lived three times longer than mice energy intake
restriction provides significant influence on longevity, very high fat diets do
not give the same protection as do high carbohydrate diets".
In other
studies, restricting calories, typically and strongly lowers the incidence of
most spontaneous and induced tumors, delays their onsets, and extends maximum life span in rodents A recent article
reviewing the research in this area
stated, restriction of dietary energy maintains most physiologic systems in a
youthful state and retards a broad spectrum of disease processes.
Some
scientists believe that the benefits of this diet go beyond just preventing
disease to actually slowing the process of aging. one researcher wrote, In
experimental animals, dietary restriction reduces the body weight increase due
to aging, increase longevity and delays the onsets of age-related physiological
deterioration. A diet low calories and
high fiber MAY reduce age related
deterioration of brain functions, Eating fewer calories helps protect your cell
membranes from aging as quickly. According to one group of researchers.
Restricting the food intake of rodents extends the median length
of life and the maximum life-span. It also retards most age-associated
physiologic change and associated diseases. our research indicates that the
ability to retard disease processes is
not the major reason for the extension of life-span or for the retardation of age change in most physiologic
systems, rather, it appears that most of the actions of food restriction are due
to its ability to slow the primary aging processes.
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