The recommendations come from the Archives of Internal Medicine and are derived from two studies conducted on a total of 150 overweight individuals. Those affected have gone behind for a period of time two diets dissimilar. Later the doctors measured the effects of the two Diets pressure of patients and significant parameters such as point of blood sugar and blood pressure, blood fat and volume of the left ventricle of heart.

First diet, Assisted by an anti-obesity, excluded nearly perfectly carbohydrates (a highest of 20 grams a day) and provided for a system with low fat content. After less than a year, patients had lost about 10% of their weight, but what is most exciting is that the pressure was decreased and blood glucose and insulin levels had stabilized.

The second learn has referred patients to a typical hypertensive the so-called DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), which has proven very efficient in controlling ‘hypertension and helpful in reducing left ventricular mass of the heart, declining the risk of heart failure. The DASH is very close to the principles of Mediterranean diet: Lots of fruits and vegetables, cereals, dairy products, lean and very little fat, particularly of animal origin.

Between the two regimes, Massimo Volpe, president of the Italian Society of Cardiovascular Prevention clearly looks to have a preference the latter, because remove carbohydrates might also have repercussions our negative health But then adds “Some people draw many benefits from a change of food, such as who is obese, suffers from metabolic syndrome or has a powerful family history of the cardiovascular.

In other cases, for example in hypertension, the benefits obtained by re-feeding are significant, but not ever decisive: the same studies on the DASH diet have verified that the pressure drops, but do not get benefits in terms of abridged mortality or’s incidence of cardiovascular events.

This intends that a reduction of risk parameters as observed in these two studies is a fine result, but frequently not sufficient to solve whole thing if there is a precise clinical trouble should be a cautious evaluation for other preventive measures linked with nutrition even pharmacological“.