There's a commonly-held belief that swapping chicken for beef works to control high cholesterol levels. A new study has put that to pasture:
Consuming high quantities of white meat like chicken could raise your cholesterol just as much as eating red meat like beef, according to a study published Tuesday in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
During the red-meat month, subjects ate corn-fed beef and pork. The white-meat month centered around chicken and turkey. And the plant-based month featured legumes, nuts, wheat and soy products. The subjects picked up their food from the lab, so that their entrees, side dishes, snacks and drinks were standardized. Participants also abstained from alcohol, vitamins and processed meats for the duration of the study.
“When we planned this study, we expected red meat to have a more adverse effect on blood cholesterol levels than white meat, but we were surprised that this was not the case — their effects on cholesterol are identical when saturated fat levels are equivalent,” wrote the study’s senior author, Dr. Ronald Krauss at the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute.
What’s more, the results were similar whether the red meat or poultry was high or low in saturated fat, although the diets high in saturated fat in particular saw an increase in LDL cholesterol linked to cardiovascular disease.
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