Both a traditional and modified Daniel Fast improve the cardio-metabolic profile in men and women

Lipids in Health and Disease

Research

Tyler M. Farney¹  Rick J. Alleman¹  Richard J. Bloomer¹  Innocence C. Harvey¹ 

[1]Cardiorespiratory/Metabolic Laboratory, Department of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Memphis, 106 Roane Field House, Memphis, TN, USA

关键词: Dietary modification;    Nutrition;    Reactive oxygen species;    Lipids;    Nitric oxide;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1476-511X-12-114

 received in 2013-05-20, accepted in 2013-07-22,  发布年份 2013

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe Daniel Fast involves dietary modification similar to a purified vegan diet. Although improvements in several health-specific biomarkers have been noted with this plan, the removal of animal products results in a significant reduction in both dietary protein and saturated fatty acid intake, which results in a loss of lean body mass and a reduction in HDL-cholesterol.MethodsWe assigned 29 men and women to either a traditional or modified Daniel Fast for 21 days and measured anthropometric and biochemical markers of health pre and post intervention. The modified Daniel Fast was otherwise identical to the traditional plan but included one serving per day of lean meat and dairy (skim milk), providing approximately 30 grams per day of additional protein.ResultsCompared to baseline, both plans resulted in similar and significant improvements in blood lipids, as well as a reduction in inflammation.ConclusionsModification of dietary intake in accordance with either a traditional or modified Daniel Fast may improve risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

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© Alleman, Jr et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2013. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.