New study links diet to heart failure risk
NEW YORK - Increasing the number of regular whole grain servings in your diet by just one may lessen heart failure risk by 7 percent among middle-aged African-American and white men and women, according to findings from a long-term study.
Conversely, an increase of one serving of high-fat dairy and egg appear to raise heart failure risk by 8 and 23 percent, respectively, Dr. Jennifer A. Nettleton, of the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston, and colleagues found.
“A refined grain here, a full-fat yogurt there, and the occasional egg aren’t going to result in heart failure, but a continued pattern of such behaviors could,” Nettleton told Reuters Health.
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on Dec 26th, 2008 and is filed under Foods, General Health.
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