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Eating less fat and more fruits and veggies for a while can slightly lower bad cholesterol, blood pressure, and a blood clotting factor in women after menopause.

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Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

Randomized Controlled Trial
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2006 Feb 8

The study gave women a diet with less fat and more fruits and veggies, and it found small but real improvements in three key health markers—bad cholesterol, blood pressure, and a blood clotting factor—exactly as the claim says.

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Low-Fat Dietary Pattern and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease

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DOI: 10.1001/jama.295.6.655

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When postmenopausal women ate less fat and more veggies and fruit, their bad cholesterol, blood pressure, and a blood clotting factor all went down a little — and those changes were real, not just by chance.

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Eating less fat and more fruits and veggies for a while can slightly lower bad cholesterol, blood pressure, and a blood clotting factor in women after menopause.

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Eating less fat and more veggies, fruits, and grains didn’t help postmenopausal women avoid heart attacks, strokes, or other heart problems over more than 8 years.

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For women after menopause, eating a bit more veggies, fruits, and whole grains didn’t lower their risk of heart attacks or strokes, even though their bad cholesterol and blood pressure got a little better.

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When women after menopause ate a bit more vegetables, fruits, and whole grains, their good cholesterol, fat levels, blood sugar, and insulin didn’t get better or worse — it made no real difference.

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