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Avoid Both Heart Attacks and Strokes - Saturated Fat and Cholesterol
Myth Busted
For
decades, we’ve been told to steer free of Saturated fat (meat, eggs,
and dairy) as it’s supposed to skyrocket your cholesterol
level.
This
gave rise to the horrendous “low fat” propaganda that’s still going strong to
this day.
A
new study published in the International Journal of Cardiology reveals quite an
interesting twist to this argument.
Looks
like it’s not about saturated fat itself but what kind of saturated fat you are
talking about.
The
researchers collected the health information of 22,050 British people and
53,375 Danes that were previously collected by the EPIC study.
They
also used country-specific food frequency questionnaires to estimate the
approximate amount of saturated fats these people usually consumed.
After
following the participants for a period of 18.8 years (the British) and 13.6
years (the Danes), they found 1,204 heart attacks in the British sample and 2,260 in the Danish one.
When
they compared the number of heart attacks with the food intake data, they discovered that saturated
fats with different carbon chain lengths had different heart health effects.
To
clarify, each fatty acid has a chain of carbon atoms. Fatty acids are normally
divided into short-chain, medium-chain, long-chain, and very long-chain fatty
acids, with their chains ranging from one to mid-20s carbon atoms.
The
authors discovered that people who consumed large amounts of saturated fats
with chains of 16 carbon atoms or more had the highest heart attack risk. These fats are called palmitic acid (16 atoms) and
stearic acid (18 atoms), and they are mostly found in meat.
People
who ate plant proteins like legumes and nuts instead of meat also had a
considerably lower heart attack risk.
Those
who consumed a lot of medium-chain saturated fats had no heart attack risk.
These are found in dairy products, which is why many recent studies have
suggested that full-cream milk and cheese are actually healthy.
Therefore,
it’s not saturated versus non-saturated that is important, as many doctors
still believe. Rather, among the types of saturated fats, their chain lengths
are more important than the fact that they are saturated.
Avoid Both Heart Attacks and Strokes
- To Prevent Cardiovascular Diseases, Drink This In Excess
We’re
usually guided to do things in moderation, and that’s especially true when it
comes to this controversial drink.
But
a new study recently published in JAMA Internal Medicine revealed that drinking it
excessively will reduce your risk of dying from strokes, heart attacks and
pretty much anything else.
Scientists
consulted the UK Biobank, a population-based study that had the demographic,
genetic, lifestyle, and dietary information of 9.2 million British volunteers.
In
their analysis, they only included the data of only those that had a full set
of data available, along with those who were not pregnant at the beginning of
the study, which totaled to 498,134 people.
They
followed these volunteers between 2006 and 2016 and noted the deaths that
occurred, regardless of the attributing factor, especially the common ones like
cardiovascular events and cancer.
The
participants ranged from ages 38 to 73, with an average age of 57. Of the
participants, 54% of them were female and 71% of them were coffee drinkers.
Compared
with non-coffee drinkers, all the groups of coffee drinkers were less likely to
die, regarding of whether they were drinking less than one cup per day or
drinking more than eight cups per day.
This
held for deaths from all causes, including the most common causes such as
cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Ground,
instant, and decaffeinated coffee had the same effects, suggesting that
caffeine was not the important healthy ingredient in this beverage.
Even
people with genetic variations that led to a slowdown of their metabolism of
caffeine experienced the same benefits as those who processed caffeine
properly.
All
this seems to suggest that coffee can protect against cardiovascular diseases,
no matter the amount and the type you drink, and this was true even for those
whose bodies did not process caffeine properly.
This
is no wonder, as coffee is loaded with antioxidants.
Previous
studies have found that, coffee contributed to more than 5.5 times the amount
of antioxidants present in a person’s blood stream when compared to fruit, and
was almost 30 times the amount antioxidants present when compared to those
contributed by vegetables. Ouch!
Avoid Both Heart Attacks and Strokes
- How Neighbors Raise Cholesterol And Can Cause Heart Attack And Stroke
A
new study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology has shown
that a specific type of neighbors can drastically increase your cholesterol
level and the risk of having a heart attack and stroke.
And
no, it’s not the irritating neighbor. It’s actually the one that most people
want to have close by.
The
problem is that we have too many of them, which could lead to these dire
consequences.
Scientists
from Utrecht University and the University Medical Centre Utrecht collected
information of the number of fast-food restaurants within 500 meters, 1,000
meters, and 3,000 meters of the homes of 2,472,004 Dutch study participants.
All
the participants were at least 35 years of age and were required to have lived
at the same residential addresses for at least the last 15 years.
They
were required to have been free of cardiovascular disease at the beginning of
the study, and were then followed up with for 12 months to see who was the most
likely to develop cardiovascular problems, including coronary heart disease,
stroke and heart failure.
Unsurprisingly,
those who lived in rural areas with no fast-food restaurants within the
vicinity were the least likely of all the participants to suffer from these
horrors, as the obvious inconvenience of the long drive to such a restaurant
outweighed the convenience of buying ready-made food.
Cardiovascular
disease and coronary heart disease risks were the highest for those who lived a
mere 500 meters from fast-food restaurants, and the statistics were not much
better for those who lived 1,000 meters away. However, the risk was much
smaller for those within 3,000 meters of one.
The
risk also increased with the increased number of nearby fast-food outlets
within the neighborhood, along with the risk of stroke and heart attack.
But
moving to the country may not be the solution you need for the healing of your
heart arteries.
For
more ideas on how to avoid both heart attacks and strokes, watch this video
- Foods that Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke
This post is from the
Oxidized Cholesterol Strategy Program. It was created by Scott Davis. Because
he once suffered from high cholesterol, so much so that he even had a severe
heart attack. This is what essentially led him to finding healthier
alternatives to conventional medication. Oxidized
Cholesterol Strategy is a unique online program that provides you
with all the information you need to regain control of your cholesterol levels
and health, as a whole.
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