A study of 16,000 people in 52 countries in the current issue of Circulation found that eating meat, fried foods, and salty snacks raised the risk of a heart attack by 35 percent. Conversely, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables reduced the risk of a heart attack by 30 percent.
Again, a 24-year study of 88,517 female nurses in the April 14th issue of Archives of Internal Medicine found that those who ate lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and plant-based protein were 24 percent less likely to have a heart attack and 18 percent less likely to have a stroke than those addicted to a more typical American diet.
With the cost of medical care becoming a national crisis, it's high time for each of us to assume more responsibility for our family's and our own health by becoming more selective with our food dollars.
Ari Holten
Auburn
With the cost of medical care becoming a national crisis, it's high time for each of us to assume more responsibility for our family's and our own health by becoming more selective with our food dollars.
Ari Holten
Auburn
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karl again... wrote on Oct 29, 2008 10:53 AM:
This is as predictable as the sunrise,
I think they should do a study on it, and find out why people think that it contributes ANYTHING whatsoever to either their health, or the perception of their intelligence? "
Farmer's Gal wrote on Oct 29, 2008 10:15 AM:
Farmer's Gal wrote on Oct 29, 2008 8:42 AM:
Humans were made to eat meat. Period. If you work really, really hard at it, it is possible to get adequate nutrition without meat, but it's not easy and it's not natural for our species.
We do have a problem with meat in this country, but it is NOT something inherently wrong with meat. The problem is in the production, from the cruel and inhumane treatment of animals raised for me, to the continuous use of antibiotics as cheaper than keeping the animals living quarters clean and healthy, to the use of steroids to "beef up" our beef -- these are problems with the meat INDUSTRY, not with meat per se.
There is no excuse except greed for raising meat inhumanely and under conditions contrary to human as well as animal health. That's where change is needed, not in our natural human diet including meat. "
teacher1 wrote on Oct 28, 2008 5:30 AM: