Mediterranean Diet Reduces Risk of First Heart Attack

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 283 views

That first heart attack has to manifest as a shocker. You’re on the bar watching the game, dipping Buffalo wings into blue cheese and – BAM!

You’re on the floor grabbing your chest and yelling for the drunken buddies to call 911. Only if you’d been popping olives besides jalapeño poppers.

Because a new study shows the Mediterranean diet may lower your threat of needing a cardiac event, especially that pesky first heart attack.

Ever wonder why those olive-skinned Mediterranean women – ugh, guys too – look so great? It’s their diet. The Mediterranean diet, rich in olive oil, fruits, vegetables, whole grain products, and fish, is definitely connected with a healthy body.

And now, writing in the Am . j . of epidemiology , scientists say the closer you adhere to the Mediterranean diet, the decrease chance associated with a heart attack; even a 40% reduced risk of a first cardiac event.

With a special scale to position units of compliance on the Mediterranean, data revealed with each “1-unit” increase in score, heart disease threat was decreased by 6%. Scientists explain the corresponding diet change isn’t that “drastic.”

So, utilize this info being a beginning. Eliminate red meat eventually and swap in fish, or cook with this kind of oil instead of canola oil; ease into it. It always seems weird to me to shock the body by having an abrupt diet change.

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