{"id":58185,"date":"2011-10-31T13:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=58185"},"modified":"2011-10-31T13:12:40","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T18:12:40","slug":"low-fat-high-fiber-childhood-diet-prevents-adult-health-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/low-fat-high-fiber-childhood-diet-prevents-adult-health-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Low-Fat, High-Fiber Childhood Diet Prevents Adult Health Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-58188\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/low-fat-high-fiber-childhood-diet-prevents-adult-health-problems\/healthy-eating-child1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-58188\" title=\"healthy-eating-child1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/healthy-eating-child1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>While it&#8217;s never too late to turn your health around, it&#8217;s also never too early to make a difference. One of the scariest parts of childhood obesity is that it can have health repercussions later in adulthood.<\/p>\n<p>Take a recent study, for example. It says that if parents were to feed there children a diet lower in total fat and saturated fat and more fiber, it would help ensure lower glucose levels and <strong><a title=\"lower blood pressure\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/dark-chocolate-is-good-for-high-blood-pressure\/\">lower blood pressure<\/a><\/strong> in adulthood. A high fat diet is associated with an increased risk of the metabolic syndrome.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The researchers evaluated 230 women between the ages of 25 and 29 years, who nine years earlier participated in the Dietary Intervention Study in Children. It was a randomized controlled clinical trial of a reduced-fat diet that sought to limit fat intake to 28 percent of daily caloric intake and increase dietary fiber intake.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Few participants in our follow-up study met the criteria for <strong><a title=\"metabolic syndrome diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/metabolic-syndrome-diet\/\">metabolic syndrome<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; a cluster of symptoms including belly fat; low levels of high-density lipoprotein, the &#8220;good&#8221; cholesterol; higher levels of triglycerides and blood glucose and elevated blood pressure &#8212; but the intervention group had statistically significant lower mean systolic blood pressure and fasting plasma glucose levels compared to the control group,&#8221; said lead author Joanne Dorgan of Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>(via: <strong><a title=\"childhood diet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2011\/10\/111027083045.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ScienceDaily<\/a><\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s never too late to turn your health around, it&#8217;s also never too early to make a difference. One of the scariest parts of childhood obesity is that it can have health repercussions later in adulthood. Take a recent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/10\/low-fat-high-fiber-childhood-diet-prevents-adult-health-problems\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3687,1367,3695],"tags":[545,3863,1403,383],"class_list":["post-58185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-health","category-childrens-health","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-fiber","tag-healthy-children","tag-metabolic-syndrome","tag-research-studies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58185"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58195,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58185\/revisions\/58195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}