Eat for Life The Food and Nutrition Board's Guide to Reducing Your Risk of Chronic Disease (1992) / Chapter Skim
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7 Protein, Carbohydrates, and Chronic Diseases
7 Protein, Carbohydrates, and Chronic Diseases
Pages 99-106
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As a result, children in the United States have relatively high serum cholesterol levels. The consequences of having high serum cholesterol as a child are not yet clear, but two pieces of evidence suggest that the outcome may not be good.
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Yet protein from animal sources often comes in foods that contain significant amounts of saturated fatty acids. And the only carbohyclrate-rich foods that are truly fattening are those laden with fats and added sugar, such as pastries, cookies, and baked potatoes heapec!
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PROTEIN Heart Disease Health experts have suspected that protein from animal sources contributes to an increased risk of heart disease since people who eat diets high in animal protein usually suffer more heart attacks than people who get their protein mainly from plant sources. But it may be that animal protein is not to blame at all.
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Therefore you do not need to worry that eating meat increases your chances of developing osteoporosis. CARBOHYDRATES Dental Canes There is little doubt that simple carbohydrates, otherwise known as sugars, are involved in causing dental caries.
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Experiments show, too, that it is not the amount of sugar you consume, but how you eat it sucking on hard candy all day wouIcI promote tooth decay more than eating one large piece of rock candy in 15 minutes. Soft drinks are less apt to promote cavities than hard candies sugar in solid foods promotes cavities more than does sugar in liquid foods.
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Insoluble fiber also causes digested food to pass through the intestines more quickly, thus contributing to "regularity" and reducing the length of time the gut lining is in contact with any potentially harmful substances contained in the digested food. -- r ~-~_ A_ Heart Disease People who eat diets that are high in fiber have significantly lower serum cholesterol and higher HDL-cholestero} levels than people who eat Tow-fiber diets.
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The conflicting results some studies showed a protective effect and others showed no effect-may stem from the problems of comparing fibers from different sources. Other Chronic Diseases Fiber, according to what you might read in magazines and newspapers, seems to be the one dietary component that affords some protection against nearly every chronic disease known.
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