Friday, February 27, 2009

Reduce Heart Disease With Low Fat Diet

By Haiyan Lai-Heskin

400,000 deaths each year may be attributed to obesity. Studies have shown that obesity and heart disease are inevitably linked. You also have a higher chance of getting diabetes Type 2 when you are obese.

It's not only fashionable to lose your extra pounds - it could save your life. One of the reasons people are encouraged to lose weight, exercise regularly and make wiser food choices is to avoid obesity.

The the three most common causes of death and disablement is heart attack, heart failure, and stroke, and the worst thing about these is that people can go decades without any sign or symptoms until suddenly happens or drop dead.

There is something everyone can do without great inconvenience if you are already overweight. you can follow the low-fat diet with no difficulty, without having to suffer a bland, unexciting series of daily menus.By eliminating certain foods from your diet, by including others in the right amounts, and by the use of nutritional supplements, you can achieve at least a 50 per cent protection against heart attack.

Butter, eggs, whole milk, cream, meat, fish and poultry fats, and cheese in various combinations is the outstanding fats are being eaten daily in the United States and Europe.

In these fats, per gram contain 9 calories, which is more than twice the amount of calories than protein or carbohydrate does at four calories each per gram.

Researchs show that the reduction of fat content in the national diet have many effect on the number of deaths from heart attack. The low fat diet proved to be effective in reducing weight and promoting general good health.

Strong evidence has shown by pathologists, doctors, and medical researchers that when the arteries were correspondingly high in the degree of damage or destruction by atherosclerosis, the blood cholesterol and fats are high. And when the blood levels of fat were low, the damage to heart and brain was also low.

To follow a correct nutritional program, and to follow it consistently, one might almost say religiously is the only one safe and effective way to achieve the correct poundage and to keep it at that figure.

Let us "eat to live, not live to eat." The low-fat diet holds great promise for everyone, whether the person has atherosclerosis or not. The low-fat way of life can be followed by anyone, anywhere, and it is simple, safe, effective. - 16004

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