Cardiovascular Disease
Obesity-related cardiovascular risk factors may be improved by increased fruit consumption
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 13th, 2006
Investigators in Spain report, "The aim of the present work was to estimate the ability of two hypocaloric diets with different fruit contents to improve antioxidant biomarkers related to lipid peroxidation in obese women."
A.B. Crujeiras and colleagues of the University of Navarra described their study: "Fifteen obese women (age 32±6 y, body mass index 34.9±2.9 kg/m2) were assigned to two different dietary treatments for 8 wk. The subjects received a hypocaloric diet (600 kcal/d restriction from the measured individual energy...
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