Diet and exercise has become a mantra for health-conscious consumer According to a latter study.

Diet and exercise has become a mantra for health-conscious consumer According to a latter study, the word and is a particularly important part of the mix. Stanford University researchers construct that people who followed a low-fat eating plan on the other hand did not exercise did not significantly make their cholesterol levels compared to those who the two dieted and exercised.

The investigators followed 197 men (average age 48) and 180 women (average age 57) for a year. The participants were considered at risk for heart disease because they all had elevated on a levels of harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and an had low levels of beneficial high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol The women s average LDL level was 161 mg/dl and HDL was 47 mg/dl The men s LDL levels averaged 156 mg/dl and 36 mg/dl for HDL (LDL below 130 mg/dl and HDL above 45 mg/dl are considered desirable.) The proffers followed one of four regimens: undivided hour of aerobic exercise three times a week plus the National Cholesterol Education Program s (NCEP) Step II diet (les than 30% of daily calories from fat; 7% of total calories may be saturated), exercise alone, the NCEP diet alone, or a continuation of their normal habits (the repress group).

After a year, solely those who followed the diet and exercise program had significant decreases in LDL cholesterol (There were no substantial changes in any of the participants HDL levels) one as well as the other the men s and women s LDL levels in the diet and exercise cluster decreased by an average of 18 mg/dl Those who followed either the NCEP diet or workout regimen alone experienced single slight reductions in LDL cholesterol compared to the have charge of group, whose levels remained unchanged. The bottom line is: diet and exercise. (New England Journal of Medicine July 2, 1998, pp. 12 20)

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