Sterol Protein Complex
Take Good Heath To Your Heart with Vegetable Derived Phytosterols!
| $23.99 | 90 Count Bottle VP960P | Retails for $29.90 |
Nutritive Non-Steroid Supplement Supplies Lipotrophic Nutrients, Soy Protein Isolate, Whey Protein, Amino Acids, Electrolytes, Energizers, Herbals and Vegetable-Derived Nutritive Sterols All-In-One Formula!
Super Sterol Protein Complex is an innovative nutritional formula designed to support your training objectives, including optimization of natural muscle growth, regeneration and improved performance.
A convenient method to add nutritive vegetable- sterols to your daily intake is with Super Sterol Protein Complex Tablets...Vegetable (soy-derived) sterols with fat-metabolizing lipotrophic nutrients, plus soy protein isolate, whey protein, free-form amino acids, electrolytes, energizers and herbals all- in-one formula!
Science now suggests consuming sufficient levels of phytosterols daily may reduce the risk of heart disease when combined with a low-fat, low cholesterol diet. Include Vitamin Power's Super Sterol Protein Complex (Prod. No. 960P) in your daily heart-healthy nutrition regimen.
Recommended Use: As a dietary supplement, take 2 tablets before each meal (up to 6 tablets daily).
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USDA Study Shows Plant Sterols Lower Cholesterol...Take Good Health To Heart With Vegetable-Derived Phytosterols
People who already eat a low-fat diet to reduce cholesterol might lower it more by consuming a soybean extract with high levels of substances called plant sterols, according to preliminary new research, Agricultural Research Service . . . The research is preliminary but offers new evidence that soybean and other plant extracts containing sterols can increase the cholesterol-lowering benefits of a healthy low-fat diet...People who want to reduce their cholesterol through diet may see better results by including low-fat foods having added sterols as part of their low-fat diet.
Researchers said cholesterol reductions nearly doubled in the study's men and women volunteers, when their low-fat diet included two daily servings (4 tablespoons total) of soybean sterols. The volunteers consumed the sterols--2.2 grams or about ½ teaspoon--daily for three weeks of the six-week study.
The study was conducted at (ARS) Agricultural Research Service's Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center/US Department of Agriculture.
Potential dietary benefits of plant sterols, including cholesterol reduction, have been studied for decades. The Beltsville study was unique in examining plant sterols as an ingredient in low-fat foods and as part of a tightly controlled low-fat diet. Most studies have looked at sterol effects in higher fat foods.
The soybean extracts used in the study are compounds known as sterol esters. Their molecular structure is similar to cholesterol. Researchers said sterol esters most likely lowered the volunteers' cholesterol by limiting its intestinal absorption.
The volunteers began the study with their levels of "bad" (LDL) cholesterol in the mildly elevated range. For six weeks, they ate all their meals at the Beltsville center. For three of those weeks, their daily diet included 2.2 grams of soybean sterols as an ingredient in salad dressing. On the low fat diet alone- -without plant sterols--the volunteers' total and "bad" cholesterol levels dropped 7.3 and 8.4 percent, respectively. With the sterols, the reductions were nearly double: 14.1 and 18.2 percent. Not surprisingly, the volunteers' levels of 'good' (HDL) cholesterol stayed the same."
Overall fat intake in the study diet amounted to 32 percent of total calories. A 36-percent fat diet is about the average for American adults. It is important to distinguish between healthful "good" fats and unhealthy saturated fats.
Curiously, 10% of the volunteers lowered their cholesterol only during the part of the study that included sterol esters. "Many people with high cholesterol," the leading researcher noted, "do not respond to a low-fat diet alone and rely on prescription cholesterol-lowering drugs. The key question is, could dietary plant sterols also help these kinds of people?"
Researchers conducted the study with the Diet and Human Performance Laboratory; including the chemist who lead the center's Phytonutrients Laboratory; and other scientists who specialize in plant-derived nutrition.
The sterols used in the study already occur--in low concentrations--in many raw and refined vegetable- based foods including vegetable oils. A typical American diet provides approximately 0.25 g of plant sterol per day. It would be impractical to try to consume 2.2 grams a day of sterols from refined oils or other foods.
Plant Proteins Key To Weight Loss, Cardiovascular Health, Lower Cholesterol, Suggests Study
Specific Plant-Derived Proteins, Peptides, Amino Acids Are Beneficial For Cardiovascular Health As Well As Effective Weight Management.
A diet low in carbohydrates and high in plant-based proteins could improve blood cholesterol levels while promoting weight loss, according to a new study.
In a paper published this week in the JAMA journal Archives of Internal Medicine, scientists suggested that popular low-carb diets with meat protein, which are often promoted for weight loss, may contain high levels or saturated fat and cholesterol, which could lead to the potential for adverse effects.
"This lack of a benefit for LDL-C control is a major disadvantage in using this dietary strategy in those already at increased risk of coronary heart disease," concluded researchers of St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
"A plant-based low-carbohydrate diet high in vegetable proteins and oils may be an effective option in treating those with dyslipidemia for whom both weight loss and lower LDL-C concentrations are treatment goals," wrote the authors, adding that more research was needed to confirm the benefits.
The study found that overweight individuals who ate a low-calorie, low-carbohydrate diet high in plant-based proteins for four weeks lost weight and experienced improvements in blood cholesterol levels and other heart disease risk factors.
The researchers randomly assigned 25 participants to this diet, which they refer to as the 'Eco-Atkins' diet, for a period of four weeks. The vegetable proteins in this diet were derived from gluten, soy, nuts, fruits, vegetables, cereals and vegetable oils.
Another 25 participants were given a high-carbohydrate, lacto-ovo vegetarian control diet, which was based on low-fat dairy and whole grain products. The diets provided 60 per cent of participants' estimated calorie requirements.
After four weeks, both groups recorded similar levels of weight loss - around 4kg ( 8 to 9 lbs.) However, reductions in LDL-C levels and improvements in the ratios between total cholesterol and HDL-C were greater for the low-carbohydrate diet compared with the high-carbohydrate diet, wrote the researchers.
The low-carbohydrate diet also appeared to produce beneficial changes in levels and ratios of apolipoproteins, proteins that bind to fats. In addition, small but significantly greater reductions were seen in both systolic (top number) and diastolic (bottom number) blood pressure for the low-carbohydrate vs. the high-carbohydrate group.
The authors said their study provides insight into "debatably more effective and possibly safer tactics" for designing higher-protein diets for weight loss and cardiovascular risk reduction.
"However, it is premature to recommend the 'Eco-Atkins' diet as a weight loss diet of choice without confirmation of its efficacy in larger studies of more diverse and higher-risk individuals. Long-term studies are also essential to ascertain both sustainability and safety," they concluded.
Source: The Effect of a Plant-Based Low-Carbohydrate ('Eco-Atkins') Diet on Body Weight and Blood Lipid Concentrations in Hyperlipidemic Subjects Archives of Internal Medicine, 2009.
