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Written by Allen Lawrence, M.D.
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Heart-Healthy Foods
Over the years you have probably heard lots of input on which foods are good for your heart and which are not. A recent investigation has looked at the information from nearly 200 studies involving millions of people. The results of this investigation produced a recently published article touting a much shorter list of foods you should be including in your diet. The list appears to much shorter than we would have imagined or has been previously suggested.
This new “short” list of heart-healthy foods contains no surprises
highly recommended are vegetables, nuts and foods that would normally
be considered part of the Mediterranean diet. These are the “good"
heart foods. On the "bad" lis, once again are no significant surprises
as we see high on this list starchy carbs like white bread and the
trans fats found in many cookies and fried foods such as fried chicken
and French fries.
There are however still some "questionable" foods such as meat (beef and pork particularly), and well as eggs and milk.
With few changes positive or negative and still many unanswered
questions about a number of specific foods there is still confusion
around what we should and should not eat.
The study did however, clearly demonstrate that smoking is neither good
for the heart nor for your lungs. Within this investigation multiple
studies when certain food or specific diets showed a strong link with
better heart health, they put these food or diet at the top of the list.
In the end this study reaffirmed the benefits of a Mediterranean diet,
a diet which is rich in vegetables, nuts, whole grains, fish and olive
oil when compared to a Western diet, heavy on processed meats, red
meat, refined grains and high-fat dairy.
Their conclusion was that we should look at eating differently if we
are not already using a Mediterranean style diet. It was also suggested
that what you chose to eat is really about the totality of your usual
eating pattern, don’t worry if you eat a hot dog on opening day of
baseball season, just eat healthy and heart-healthy foods the rest of
the time.
The specific study referenced here was supported by the Heart and
Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Canadian Institutes of Health.
For more information on the
Mediterranean Diet and other Heart-Healthy Diets, click here.
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