{"id":14537,"date":"2018-02-28T17:45:20","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=14537"},"modified":"2018-02-28T17:45:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T17:45:20","slug":"vegetarians-may-keep-heart-diseases-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2018\/02\/28\/vegetarians-may-keep-heart-diseases-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarians may keep heart diseases away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consuming a form of vegetarian diet, which includes eggs and dairy but excludes meat and fish, may be just as effective as a Mediterranean diet in reducing the risk of heart diseases and stroke, researchers have claimed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-quote fb_iframe_widget\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" title=\"fb:quote Facebook Social Plugin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/v2.5\/plugins\/quote.php?app_id=1499138263726489&amp;channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2Fr%2FNh1oH0K63yz.js%3Fversion%3D42%23cb%3Df2d1a5a365b6dbc%26domain%3Den.prothomalo.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fen.prothomalo.com%252Ff7f42aa2afaa3%26relation%3Dparent.parent&amp;container_width=1424&amp;href=http%3A%2F%2Fen.prothomalo.com%2Flifestyle%2Fnews%2F171719%2FVegetarians-may-keep-heart-diseases-away&amp;locale=en_US&amp;sdk=joey\" name=\"f85b0bb61d5528\" width=\"1000px\" height=\"1000px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet is a kind of vegetarian diet that includes animal products such as eggs and dairy products, but excludes the intake of meat and fish.<\/p>\n<p>A Mediterranean diet, meanwhile, includes the consumption of poultry, fish and some red meat as well as fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The take-home message of our study is that a low-calorie lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet can help patients reduce cardiovascular risk about the same as a low-calorie Mediterranean diet,&#8221; said lead author Francesco Sofi, Professor at the University of Florence in Italy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have more than one choice for a heart-healthy diet,&#8221; Sofi added.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in the journal Circulation, found that a vegetarian diet was more effective at reducing LDL (the &#8220;bad&#8221;) cholesterol, while the Mediterranean diet result greater reductions in triglycerides, high levels of which increase the risk for heart attack and stroke.<\/p>\n<p>The research included 107 healthy but overweight participants, between 18 and 75 years of age, who were randomly assigned to follow for three months either a low-calorie vegetarian diet, which included dairy and eggs, or a low-calorie Mediterranean diet for three months.<\/p>\n<p>The results showed that people on the either diets had lost about four pounds of their weight overall, along with a three pound loss of body fat.<\/p>\n<p>They also experienced about the same change in body mass index, a measure of weight in relationship to height.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consuming a form of vegetarian diet, which includes eggs and dairy but excludes meat and fish, may be just as effective as a Mediterranean diet in reducing the risk of heart diseases and stroke, researchers have claimed. A lacto-ovo-vegetarian diet is a kind of vegetarian diet that includes animal products such as eggs and dairy products, but excludes the intake of meat and fish. A Mediterranean diet, meanwhile, includes the consumption of poultry, fish and some red meat as well as fruits, vegetables, beans and whole grains. &ldquo;The take-home message<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14539,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14537\/revisions\/14539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}