Quality Versus Quantity

There are a growing number of experts that stress the type of food you eat is more important than the amount and results of studies done at Tuffs University seem to support this. Over a 20 year period data was collected from 82,802 women based on carbohydrates, protein and fat consumption as a percentage of total calories. Low carb diets such as South Beach and Zone did not appear to increase the risk of coronary heart disease. Even more important than the type of diet the study showed the connection between disease and the source of your food.

Women who replaced animal protein and fat with vegetable protein and fat reduced their risk of coronary heart disease by 30%. Another important finding here is the connection between a high glycemic load diet and heart disease; this is a diet high in refined sugars. Diabetics have long known high glycemic foods shoots their blood glucose level up in a hurry and evidence is strong that it may do the same for your risk of heart disease. This makes sense since diabetes increases your risk for heart disease.

Quote from the researchers at Tuffs University:

“The quality of fat and carbohydrates is more important than quantity. We found the direct association between the glycemic load and coronary heart disease was much stronger than the association between carbohydrate and coronary heart disease.”

Quality is so important in everything.

Category: Nutrition