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Powerful heart help — even after an attack Everyone knows a Mediterranean diet can help prevent heart disease and cancer, but most people have figured it can’t do much for you if you’ve already been stricken with a disease. Well, I have some very good news… Rich in olive oil, fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, nuts, and fish, the Mediterranean diet has become a household term over the past few years. Plenty of research has shown that people who follow a Mediterranean diet have lower rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer, and tend to live longer. But until now, everyone’s figured the Mediterranean diet is all about prevention. Once you have heart disease or cancer, people just assumed this diet couldn’t do much for you. Well, researchers in Greece have come up with some very good news. A team looked at 1,000 patients who had suffered heart attacks or severe chest pain and rated their diets based on how closely they matched the Mediterranean ideal. They found that patients with the diets closest to Mediterranean had a 31% lower risk of suffering another heart attack or experiencing chest pain during the first month after discharge from the hospital. They were half as likely as those with diets least in line with the Mediterranean style to have another heart-related event in a year, and were almost 40% less likely to experience repeat problems within two years. In fact, with every additional point on the diet score, a person’s risk fell by 12%. The power rests in the vegetables and nuts that feature so prominently in the Mediterranean diet. People who ate vegetables and nuts daily or weekly had a 20% lower risk of repeat heart problems compared to those who ate veggies and nuts monthly (or even less often). The results of the study appear in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The bottom line is that it’s NEVER too late to reap the benefits of a healthy diet. Subscribers to Nutrition & Healing might remember reading about the Mediterranean diet very recently — just this past May, in fact. In that issue, Dr. Wright wrote about this famous diet’s power in helping to ward off skin cancer. You can also check out a brand new “Mediterranean diet in a bottle,” featured in the July issue of Nutrition & Healing. Subscribers should be getting that issue soon, and can check out the May article in the archive at www.wrightnewsletter.com. Source: “Mediterranean diet helps existing heart disease, too,” Reuters (www.reuters.com)
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Veza mediteranske prehrane i dugog života Istraživanje provedeno na Harvardu sugerira kako je mediteranski način prehrane povezan s dužim i zdravijim životom. Žene koje se pridržavaju mediteranskog načina prehrane imaju prosječno 40 posto veću šansu da će živjeti duže od 70 godina, pokazalo je novo istraživanje provedeno na poznatom Sveučilištu Harvard. Istraživači su pratili preko deset tisuća žena koje su na početku istraživanja, pred gotovo trideset godina imale između 55 i 65 godina. Osim dužeg života, te su žene imale bitno smanjen rizik za razne kronične bolesti, od dijabetesa do bolesti srca. Kako su glavne karakteristike mediteranske prehrane velik udio maslinovog ulja, ribe, povrća, voća, mahunarki i integralnih žitarica, vjerujemo da prelazak na takav način prehrane ne bi trebao biti problem. Kako je berba maslina upravo u tijeku, a ulje je božansko, prisjetite se prijatelja s maslinicima i opskrbite se za zimu.