Diet swap experiment reveals junk food's harm to gut
nas061
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"A two-week diet swap experiment hints at just how damaging a Western diet might be to our guts."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32494846
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-32494846
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As someone who "cleaned up" his diet I can attest to having far fewer incidents of heart burn and indigestion. I used to buy the huge bottle of Tums at Costco and popped them like candy...I rarely need a Tums these days.0
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"The diet swap was also fairly drastic whereas we know that making small changes you can stick with long-term is far more effective to maintain a healthier lifestyle."
The article itself is biased and a little ridiculous (of course if you feed rural African volunteers nothing but french fries and burgers they will get sick) but this sentence right here ALMOST makes up for it.0 -
"It is not possible to make any firm conclusions based on such a small study, say experts."0
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"The Americans benefited from less bowel inflammation" - Just inserting my favorite quote from the article0
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I must be adapted then. I have no gut problems.0
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Did I miss it, or did they give the actual diets they switched each group to?0
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Duh, a Western diet:
Drink up!0 -
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Interesting. I wonder why they chose low-fat, and how low is low. Anyone have a link to the actual study?0
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My god - breaking news, eating all your meals from a fast food restaurant when you've never had that food before is going to cause issues.
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Diet swap: What the volunteers ate on day one
A high fibre, low fat rural South African diet for the Americans including: corn fritters, spinach and red pepper for breakfast; corn dogs, fried potatoes and mango for lunch; and okra, tomatoes, corn muffins and black-eyed peas for dinner.
A high fat, high protein American diet for the South Africans including: beef sausage and pancakes for breakfast; burger and chips for lunch; and meatloaf and rice for dinner.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/adopting-high-fibre-diet-could-dramatically-cut-risk-of-bowel-cancer-says-study-10210523.html
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According to Dr. O’Keefe, increasing the amount of fiber in the diet – from approximately 10 grams to more than 50 for African-Americans in the diet swap – likely led to biomarker changes reflecting reduced cancer risk, but eating less animal fat and proteins also could be helpful.
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Iron_Feline wrote: »Diet swap: What the volunteers ate on day one
A high fibre, low fat rural South African diet for the Americans including: corn fritters, spinach and red pepper for breakfast; corn dogs, fried potatoes and mango for lunch; and okra, tomatoes, corn muffins and black-eyed peas for dinner.
A high fat, high protein American diet for the South Africans including: beef sausage and pancakes for breakfast; burger and chips for lunch; and meatloaf and rice for dinner.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/adopting-high-fibre-diet-could-dramatically-cut-risk-of-bowel-cancer-says-study-10210523.html
bit more info on it
corn dogs and fried potatoes on the low-fat diet? I must say the breakfast and dinner on that one sound delicious though. Interesting that every mean contains cornmeal. I hope it varied at bit from day to day.0 -
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Someone turned a BBC reality show into a study. That's a new one.0
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Because fast food is magically different than slow food, right?0 -
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I eat Chipotle nearly every day for lunch. I had Taco Bell for the first time in a very long time last night with disastrous yet entirely expected results.
I'm apparently Chipotle-adapted but not Taco Bell-adapted.
Nonetheless, to draw any conclusions based on this particular incident would be ridiculous. I can recreate the same results with the first fresh cantaloupes of the season.0 -
techgal128 wrote: »"The diet swap was also fairly drastic whereas we know that making small changes you can stick with long-term is far more effective to maintain a healthier lifestyle."
The article itself is biased and a little ridiculous (of course if you feed rural African volunteers nothing but french fries and burgers they will get sick) but this sentence right here ALMOST makes up for it.
Not really seeing why yoou object so much.
Why is the article biased?
Why is it ridiculous? looks like they are just reporting on an American experiment. The experiment was set up by the scientists and not the journo who was writing the story.
What's so significant about that sentence? It's just a quote from someone who has nothing to do with the BBC or the people who ran the experiment. All he said was making small changes has more chance at sticking than drastic changes.0 -
And research shows a high intake of dietary fibre, particularly cereal and whole grains, reduces bowel cancer risk, while eating red and processed meat increases the risk.
Always pushing the cereal and whole grains aren't they. Looks to me like the African diet's fiber came from legumes.0 -
Iron_Feline wrote: »My god - breaking news, eating all your meals from a fast food restaurant when you've never had that food before is going to cause issues.
*headdesk*
Maybe read the abstract and actually see what they were looking at rather than leaping to conclusions. The way to learn about things is to study them and any study even small can add to overall knowledge. I always find it funny that people so often discount research just because it may challenge their preconceived ideas. MFP is rife with that
They were interested in certain Cancer markers and any possible changes in such and possible cancer risk.
It sounds like an interesting study though I would like to read the full textthe food changes resulted in remarkable reciprocal changes in mucosal biomarkers of cancer risk and in aspects of the microbiota and metabolome known to affect cancer risk, best illustrated by increased saccharolytic fermentation and butyrogenesis, and suppressed secondary bile acid synthesis in the African Americans.
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As someone with an inflammatory bowel disease, I am curious about the statement that Americans benefited from less bowel inflammation and Africans bowel health deteriorated. How exactly was this inflammation measured?0
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lporter229 wrote: »As someone with an inflammatory bowel disease, I am curious about the statement that Americans benefited from less bowel inflammation and Africans bowel health deteriorated. How exactly was this inflammation measured?
Does this help? It is from the study abstract:
In comparison with their usual diets, the food changes resulted in remarkable reciprocal changes in mucosal biomarkers of cancer risk and in aspects of the microbiota and metabolome known to affect cancer risk, best illustrated by increased saccharolytic fermentation and butyrogenesis, and suppressed secondary bile acid synthesis in the African Americans.0 -
And research shows a high intake of dietary fibre, particularly cereal and whole grains, reduces bowel cancer risk, while eating red and processed meat increases the risk.
Always pushing the cereal and whole grains aren't they. Looks to me like the African diet's fiber came from legumes.
I too wonder why whole grains are touted for fiber more often than legumes. Legumes have much higher fiber.0 -
Am I reading right that they gave the Africans basically 2 weeks of nothing but fast food?0
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Need2Exerc1se wrote: »And research shows a high intake of dietary fibre, particularly cereal and whole grains, reduces bowel cancer risk, while eating red and processed meat increases the risk.
Always pushing the cereal and whole grains aren't they. Looks to me like the African diet's fiber came from legumes.
I too wonder why whole grains are touted for fiber more often than legumes. Legumes have much higher fiber.
This always bugs me too.0 -
I wonder what the Africans fry all of their food in to make it low-fat?0
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