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| Friday, October 31, 2008 |
| Junk Food Causes One-Third of the World's Heart Attacks |
That junk food causes about one third of worldwide heart attacks is not exactly an all-points health bulletin. It seems logical that fried foods and salty snacks clog arteries and weaken cardiovascular function. What’s noteworthy is this percentage is documented in a new study of 52 countries that generally follow a “Westernized” diet. That’s a lot of heart attacks caused by our fast-food culture.
The Western diet features meat, eggs and junk food (including French fries, anything deep fried, the copious snack chips available in supermarkets, processed sweets such as cookies and cakes). Along with questioning 16,000 patients, researchers at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, collected blood samples and requested that each participant fill out a detailed report on their individual eating habits over four years.
In contrast, the study authors discovered those respondents who ate more fruits and vegetables had a lower risk. The research was published in the latest issue of the medical journal Circulatio.
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