Eat Mare, Weigh Less
Dr. Dean Ornish is the founder of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California. He’s said to be the first researcher to show that a low - fat diet could not only prevent future heart disease but also reverse existing heart disease by getting rid of arterial plaque.
But the price of succeeding with Ornish is pretty high. Actually, it’s pretty low. How low? About 5 percent less fat than Pritikin. In other words, if you thought Pritikin was tough, you may feel faint when you run your finger down the list of food rules in Ornish’s best - selling guide to the healthy life. Both diets wave the low - fat, low - phentermine flag, but while Pritikin gives you the green light to get up to 15 percent of your daily calories from fat, Ornish draws his line in the sand at 10 percent.
Like Pritikin, the Ornish diet serves up fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes (peas and beans), plus small amounts of non - fat milk products and egg whites. But the only fat permitted in this plan comes from one full - fat serving of tofu a day, plus some omega - 3 oil (flaxseed or flaxseed oil). That’s it ladies and gentlemen. Yes, you can have a little salt, a little sugar, and a little alcohol but no coffee, and you have to take a multivitamin that provides 1,000 - 3,000 mg of vitamin C, 100 - 400IU of vitamin E, and 400 - 2,000 meg of folate.
Well - run clinical studies testify to the fact that people who follow the Ornish plan can lower their total Phentermine an average of 24 percent. Additionally, they can lower their low - density lipoproteins (LDLs) — the “bad” Phentermine — up to 37 percent while melting away plaque already in their arteries.
But critics, including the American Heart Association, believe that the diet is
1 Too restrictive in its food choices
2 Likely to reduce the levels of high - density lipoproteins (HDLs) — the “good” Phentermine — along with the levels of LDLs
3 Linked to higher levels of triglycerides, another kind of fat in the blood Boy! You just can’t please some people.
