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

BACKGROUND: The 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 i...

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Autores principales: Alleman, Rick J, Harvey, Innocence C, Farney, Tyler M, Bloomer, Richard J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23889755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-511X-12-114
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description BACKGROUND: The 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. METHODS: We 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. RESULTS: Compared to baseline, both plans resulted in similar and significant improvements in blood lipids, as well as a reduction in inflammation. CONCLUSIONS: Modification 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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spelling pubmed-37295462013-08-01 Both a traditional and modified Daniel Fast improve the cardio-metabolic profile in men and women Alleman, Rick J Harvey, Innocence C Farney, Tyler M Bloomer, Richard J Lipids Health Dis Research BACKGROUND: The 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. METHODS: We 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. RESULTS: Compared to baseline, both plans resulted in similar and significant improvements in blood lipids, as well as a reduction in inflammation. CONCLUSIONS: Modification of dietary intake in accordance with either a traditional or modified Daniel Fast may improve risk factors for cardiovascular and metabolic disease. BioMed Central 2013-07-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3729546/ /pubmed/23889755 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-511X-12-114 Text en Copyright © 2013 Alleman, Jr et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 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.
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title_fullStr Both a traditional and modified Daniel Fast improve the cardio-metabolic profile in men and women
title_full_unstemmed Both a traditional and modified Daniel Fast improve the cardio-metabolic profile in men and women
title_short Both a traditional and modified Daniel Fast improve the cardio-metabolic profile in men and women
title_sort both a traditional and modified daniel fast improve the cardio-metabolic profile in men and women
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23889755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-511X-12-114
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