- Eating a healthy diet is a known way to help keep a person’s heart healthy and lower their risk for cardiovascular disease.
- There is already evidence that certain diets, such as the Mediterranean diet, can help protect heart health.
- Researchers at the University of Southern California have now found that the fasting-mimicking diet provides some unique heart-healthy effects when compared to the Mediterranean diet.
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Previous research has shown that diets like the
Now, a new study from researchers at the University of Southern California has found that the
The study was recently published in the journal
According to Dr. Valter D. Longo, Edna M. Jones Chair in Gerontology and professor of gerontology and biological sciences at the USC Leonard David School of Gerontology at the University of Southern California, lead author of this study, the fasting-mimicking diet is a 5-day vegan diet with a composition such that the human body responds as it does to water-only fasting.
“For the rest of the month, the patients [return] to their normal diet,” Dr. Longo — who developed the fasting-mimicking diet — explained to Medical News Today.
The 5 days of the fasting-mimicking diet focus on low-calorie, low-protein, and high-fat plant-based foods.
Unlike intermittent fasting, a person on the fasting-mimicking diet continues to eat during the “fasting” period.
Over the last few years, researchers have been examining the use of the fasting-mimicking diet in cancer treatment to help potentially slow down the growth of tumors, and make them more susceptible to chemotherapy in certain types of cancer, such as…
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