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Healthy Heart Reports
Reduce Risk of Heart Attacks in as Little as 3 Weeks
A study from UCLA shows that three weeks of a diet and exercise
program can markedly reduce risk factors for heart attacks. Eleven
men started a low-fat, high-fiber diet and daily exercise for 45
to 60 minutes. Three weeks later, their systolic and diastolic blood
pressures, their total blood cholesterol and bad LDL cholesterol,
and their fasting insulin levels dropped significantly, and they
had lost weight. If you have high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol
levels, a high C-reactive protein, are overweight or store fat primarily
in your belly, you are at high risk for a heart attack, and can
save your life by checking with your doctor and going on a diet
the restricts meat, chicken, bakery products, pastas, and sugar-added
foods, and eating lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, beans,
seeds and nuts, and starting a supervised exercise program. You
may not get a second chance after you have had a heart attack. Effect
of diet and exercise intervention on blood pressure, insulin, oxidative
stress, and nitric oxide availability.
Circulation, 2002, Vol 106, Iss 20, pp 2530-2532. CK Roberts, ND
Vaziri, RJ Barnard. Barnard RJ, Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Physiol
Sci, PO 951527, Los Angeles,CA 90095 USA
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