Diet and heart disease reversal

Subsequent research has revealed that certain types of fat-rich foods may actually play a role in heart disease prevention

What is the best diet to prevent or reverse heart disease?

What diet is really best for heart disease? The topic has been hotly debated

for years. In 2010 researchers at the University of California at San

Francisco used a low-fat vegetarian diet as part of a lifestyle program to

reverse blocked heart arteries. 80% of the participants reversed their

atherosclerosis on such a program.

These researchers apparently thought that one of the advantages of the

vegetarian diet was its low fat content. However, subsequent research has

revealed that certain types of fat-rich foods may actually play a role in

heart disease prevention.

For example, 2011 Israeli study found that a higher fat diet can actually

reduce cholesterol levels---that is if you choose your fats carefully. A 33%

fat diet using high fat plant foods like almonds, olive oil and avocados

lowered cholesterol values more than a low fat diet with only 18% of calories

from fat. That higher fat diet lowered the critical LDL cholesterol a full

14%!

In other words, you don't have to give up all high fat foods to fight heart

disease.