Whole wheat bread and heart disease - a surprising finding
A study of over 10,000 people showed that those who ate fresh fruit daily had a much lower rate of heart disease and stroke.
Salads also contributed to the reductions.
Here's more info quoted from the abstract:
The study began in the 1970s with the hypothesis that a daily intake of whole wheat bread
with its high fibre content and a vegetarian diet would be associated with a reduction in
ischemic heart disease. The present results are weakly supportive of that hypothesis.
Whole wheat bread was found to slightly reduce the risk of death from
heart disease, and slightly increase the risk of death from cancer.
LONDON -- Daily consumption of fresh fruit has an apparent protective effect against
ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease, according to a U.K. study.
It's a simple message that supports the old saying 'an apple a day' and if you eat fresh
fruit daily the chances of dying from a heart attack or stroke are significantly
reduced," said Dr. Tim Key, a principal author of the report by the Imperial Cancer
Research Fund Epidemiology Unit at Oxford University.
Of the 4,336 men and 6,435 women in the cohort there were 32% fewer deaths from stroke
and 24% fewer deaths from heart attacks among the daily fruit eaters.
The study began in the 1970s with the hypothesis that a daily intake of whole wheat bread
with its high fibre content and a vegetarian diet would be associated with a reduction in
ischemic heart disease. The present results are weakly supportive of that hypothesis.
The most striking finding, however, was that daily consumption of fresh fruit was
associated with a reduction in mortality for each cause of death examined," Dr. Key and
colleagues said in their report in The British Medical Journal.
These reductions ranged from 19% for all malignant neoplasms combined to 41% for lung
cancer and were statistically significant for ischemic heart disease (24%),
cerebrovascular disease (32%) and all causes of death combined (21%).
The full text of the study is available here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/utils...
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/313/7060/775 |
