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PSMF leads to significant reductions in systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting blood sugar, and serum triglycerides.
Losing weight through this diet significantly improves your blood pressure, blood sugar, and triglyceride levels.
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Systolic blood pressure fell an average of 13 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure fell 8 mm Hg. Mean fasting blood sugar fell by 15 mg/dl and serum triglicerides by 37 mg/dl. All of these changes are highly significant by paired t-test (p < .0001).
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Observational cohort study.
Source
Multidisciplinary treatment of obesity with a protein-sparing modified fast: results in 668 outpatients.
Aviva Palgi et al. · American Journal of Public Health · 1985
DOI 10.2105/ajph.75.10.1190
cohort · n=668Cited 84×
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