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ScienceDaily (2008-10-27) — About 5 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure (HF). While some reports indicate that changes to diet can reduce HF risk, few large, prospective studies have been conducted. In a new study researchers observed over 14,000 participants for more than 13 years and found that whole grain consumption lowered HF risk, while egg and high-fat dairy consumption raised risk. Other food groups did not directly affect HF risk.

Why am I posting this story? The study seems opposite of the low carb approach I have taken. First I do want to stay open minded, being closed to any inputs that are counter to your own views limits the view of the whole problem and reduces the likely hood of you finding the answer you seek. This brings to mind the old story of 2 blind me describing an elephant, one feels the leg and descibes it as like a tree. The other feels the trunk and descibes it as a power snake. Each is right about what they have felt, both are wrong in what the elephant is. In many ways that is where we are in the study on obesity in America.

This is also the type of study to be careful of because it has many varibles that are hard to account for.