Re: Data on negative outcomes of High Protein Low Carb diets (was diabetes treatments of yesterday)

Bah!
This study is garbage...it cites only adult greeks..what age?
What does healthy mean?...a 90 year can be healthy for a 90 year old..yet
expectation of mortality is nowhere near that of a 20 year old..lol.

I see no good science show here just a specific group of people whome they
gave questionaires to.

For all i know "adult greek" mortality rate was decreased by the low carb
diet..because theres no way to know from this study.

It is sort of like telling croations to eat a packet of jello everyday and
then saying there was 400 death during the study so thus proving jello is
bad.

But whatever..believe as you will.

KROM


<randy@xxxxxxx> wrote > Design: Cohort investigation.

Setting: Adult Greek population.

Subjects methods: Follow-up was performed from 1993 to 2003 in the
context of the Greek component of the European Prospective
Investigation into Cancer and nutrition. Participants were 22 944
healthy adults, whose diet was assessed through a validated
questionnaire. Participants were distributed by increasing deciles
according to protein intake or carbohydrate intake, as well as by an
additive score generated by increasing decile intake of protein and
decreasing decile intake of carbohydrates. Proportional hazards
regression was used to assess the relation between high protein, high
carbohydrate and the low carbohydrate-high protein score on the one
hand and mortality on the other.

Results: During 113 230 persons years of follow-up, there were 455
deaths. In models with energy adjustment, higher intake of
carbohydrates was associated with significant reduction of total
mortality, whereas higher intake of protein was associated with
nonsignificant increase of total mortality (per decile, mortality
ratios 0.94 with 95% CI 0.89 -0.99, and 1.02 with 95% CI 0.98 -1.07
respectively). Even more predictive of higher mortality were high
values of the additive low carbohydrate-high protein score (per 5
units, mortality ratio 1.22 with 95% CI 1.09 -to 1.36). Positive
associations of this score were noted with respect to both
cardiovascular and cancer mortality.

Conclusion: Prolonged consumption of diets low in carbohydrates and
high in protein is associated with an increase in total mortality.

Keywords: diet, survival, protein intake, carbohydrate intake, cohort
study

Regards
Randy




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