The research team tested the "portfolio" diet on more than 30 overweight men
and women, comparing it with a low-fat diet and with a normal diet plus a
generic statin drug (lovastatin).
Volunteers followed each diet for one month, with a break in between each
treatment cycle. It was discovered that the low-fat diet lowered LDL, or "bad"
cholesterol, by 8.5 percent, while statins lowered LDL by 33 percent and the
"portfolio" diet lowered LDL by nearly 30 percent. A quarter of the volunteers
experienced their lowest LDL levels from being on the "portfolio" diet.
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, February 2005;
81(2): 380-387.
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