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Pediatricians double vitamin D recommendations - Yahoo! News 10/13/2008

"To meet the new recommendation of 400 units daily, millions of children will need to take daily vitamin D supplements, the American Academy of Pediatrics said."

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Early-life Nutrition May Be Associated With Adult Intellectual Functioning

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The Deliberate Agrarian: Garden Salad Flakes From Machado Farms

Fresh salad greens rank near the top of the hierarchy of nutritious foods. Leaf lettuce, chard, kale, beet greens, and spinach are incredibly good foods.

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How to Give Up Coffee and Caffeine Altogether - Dumb Little Man

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Omega-3s May Help Slow Prostate Cancer Growth 6/22/2007

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FuturePundit: Ape Man Diet Lowers Cholesterol And Inflammation Marker 7/24/2003

Tags: diet, drugs, food, health, nutrition, recipes, vegetarianism on 2007-06-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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The special diet
lowered levels of LDL cholesterol - the "bad" cholesterol
known to cause clogging in coronary arteries - in subjects by
almost 29 per cent, compared to a 30.9 per cent decrease in the
lovastatin subjects. The special diet combined nuts (almonds),
soy proteins, viscous fibre (high-fibre) foods such as oats and
barley and a special margarine with plant sterols (found in leafy
green vegetables and vegetable oils).
diet
very high in fibre, nuts, vegetable proteins and plant sterols.
The diet had 4 major categories of components.

The key components of the ape diet are plant sterols, found in plant oils and enriched margarines, viscous fibre, found in oats, barley and aubergine, and soy protein and nuts.
The margarines enriched with plant sterols (which compete with cholesterol for absorption) used in the study may have been the commercial brands Take Control, Benecol, and Benecol Light. To up your plant sterol content using natural foods one possibility is pecans with 95 milligrams of plant sterols per 100 grams. However, the level of plant sterols in the margarines is about two orders of magnitude greater (1.7 grams sterols in 14 grams of Take Control) and clinical trials in plant sterols have used about 2 grams per day. Still, the nuts have other heart-healthy benefits.
The results of this study are sufficiently dramatic that JAMA recommends its use before cholesterol-lowering drugs are tried.

In an accompanying editorial, James Anderson, a professor of medicine at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, said the findings have dramatic public-health implications. He suggested that physicians prescribe the "ape diet" to patients before even considering drugs.