Is the Portfolio Diet a Good Cardiometabolic Diet?

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Right now there are no studies that are looking at plant sterols and lower cardiovascular disease risk. Our group in Toronto is hoping that one day we'll be able to do this so my PhD supervisor Dr. John Seavenpiper he recently received a grant to conduct a study of 1,000 high-risk patients. The primary outcomes are reductions in LDL and non-HDL cholesterol but the plan is that we see if we get those reductions over the years that we would extend this trial for five more yearsSo possibly we might be able to look at some harder outcomes of the portfolio diet that includes plant sterols.

Episode #240. There’s a lot of noise about cardiometabolic health: claims that certain diets will work miracles, and hype that specific foods must be avoided at all costs. Research dietitian Dr Andrea Glenn joins me today to get to the core of which dietary patterns will actually improve your cardiometabolic health outcomes.

We discuss:

Intro (00:00)
Andrea Glenn on dietary patterns (07:31)
Which country has the best dietary guidelines today? (11:35)
What is cardiometabolic health? (13:15)
Similarities and differences between the DASH, Nordic, Mediterranean, and Portfolio Diets (16:31)
Can the Portfolio diet lower your risk of having a heart attack or stroke? (21:29)
The compositions of plant predominant diets and the demonization of carbohydrates (37:05)
Are DASH, Nordic, Mediterranean, and Portfolio diets good for preventing and managing diabetes? (44:32)
The worst and the best sources of fat (50:27)
Is the pro-metabolic diet legitimate? (54:19)
Is canola oil healthy? And is it better than olive oil? (01:03:39)
The effects of protein according to studies (1:11:05)
What are plant sterols? (1:17:20)
Plant predominant versus plant exclusive (1:22:36)

To stay in the loop with Dr Andrea Glenn, you can connect with her on Twitter. Learn more about Dr Glenn and read her research papers here.

Discover more insights and dozens of supporting studies in the full show notes.

Enjoy, friends.

Simon

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