Summary
This is old news to all the nutritionists and natural health practitioners in the world, but it's grabbing headlines in the popular press: there are actually foods that, when eaten, protect against cardiovascular disease. Wow! What an astonishing breakthrough! If you eat garlic, raw nuts, oily fish and other healthy oils, you will reduce your risk of death and avoid heart disease.
Why is this even news? I thought it was common sense. But apparently the medical community is just now learning about nutrition and the disease preventing potential of healing foods. Better late than never, I suppose. Maybe in a few more years, someone will teach them about the anti-cancer effects of broccoli and the ability of astaxanthin to prevent cataracts. Who knows, maybe they'll even start teaching nutrition in medical school one of these days…
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=7123048
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If you enjoy good food and don't like the idea of taking pills to reduce the risks of heart attack or stroke, it could be time to try the Polymeal.
Foods ranging from wine to fish and fruits and vegetables have been shown to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, so Dr Oscar Franco, a public health expert at the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, decided to combine them in one meal.
If people over 50 years old consumed roughly the daily equivalent of the Polymeal, the researchers calculated, they could slash the odds of suffering from heart disease, one of the world's biggest killers, by 76 percent.
"The message of our paper is that a healthy lifestyle and a good balanced diet is a good alternative to prevent cardiovascular disease," Franco said in an interview.
He and his team searched scientific literature to find foods that have a proven protective effect against cardiovascular disease and then used a mathematical model to determine how much the combined effects of the individual ingredients would reduce the risk of the illness.
The Polymeal consists of wine, fish, dark chocolate, fruit and vegetables, garlic and almonds.
The scientists said the results of eating the Polymeal would be most dramatic for men, whom they estimated would live 6.6 years longer in total than their counterparts not eating the meal.
Polymeals, combined with exercise and non-smoking, are the ingredients for a healthy lifestyle to prevent heart disease, Franco added.
In a separate report in the journal, renowned chef Raymond Blanc created a three-course dinner of watercress soup, grilled fillet of mackerel with winter root vegetables, chickpeas, toasted almonds and garlic and chocolate mousse, based on the
Polymeal ingredients.
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