Study Backs Gentle Cut in Fat Intake
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A study found that moderate reductions in the amount of fat in a person’s diet are better than drastic ones when it comes to lowering the risk of heart disease in people with high cholesterol. Men who got 26% of their total calories from fat lowered their LDL, or bad cholesterol, by 13.4%, researchers reported in the Journal of the American Medical Assn. Men who cut their fat intake more--to 22% of total calories--did no better in reducing the bad cholesterol, but they reduced levels of HDL, the good cholesterol, and raised levels of another blood fat called triglycerides, linked to a higher risk of heart disease.
