Beef and Heart Disease: Beyond Cholesterol Medscape: Both of your recent studies have been viewed as having implications for nutrition, especially as related to newly identified adverse effects associated with the consumption of L-carnitine (in meat) and dietary phosphatidylcholine (in meat, eggs, dairy products). Dr. Hazen: That was just the media hype; we never really pushed that point at all. We have been focusing on the biochemical determinants of atherosclerosis and following where the chemistry and biology lead us, and it happened that some compounds involved are part of the foods we eat on a regular basis. I have been trying to avoid making too many statements about nutritional recommendations, other than saying that I think we should be following what is recommended by the American Heart Association. We also referred to a recent study in which people who consumed a Mediterranean diet, specifically avoiding red meat, showed a 30% reduction in cardiovascular events over almost 5 years. More see medscape/viewarticle/806542_3
Posted on: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 03:44:32 +0000
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