We will together help reinforce the necessity to have a happy mind in a healthy body by various health tips, exercise regimes trending, doctors’ opinions, healthy food diet and food on the go, disorders and ways to combat them.
So today to start with we’ll have look at the food a lay’s diet must contain.
‘Ladies..!! Have Fruits for Super Heart’
Reinforcing the importance of developing healthy eating habits early in life, researchers have found that women who eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables are less likely to develop heart diseases. These women are less likely to have plaque building up in their arteries 20 years later compared to those who consumed lower amounts of these foods in their adulthood, the study noted.
Building up of plaque can lead to heart disease, heart attack & stroke. Surprisingly the findings of the research showered that the same benefit did not hold true for men.
“These findings confirm the concept that plaque development is a life-long process, & that process can be slowed down with a healthy diet at a young age,” said Michael D. Miedema, a cardiologist at Minepolis Heart Institute in the U.S.
For the study that included 2,508 participants, researchers evaluated the association between dietary intake of fruits & vegetables in young adults & the presence of coronary artery calcification (CAC) 20 years later.
The CAC scores, which were obtained using a CT scan, provided a direct estimate of the amount of plaque in the coronary arteries. Women who consumed eight to nine servings of fruits & vegetables a day for a 2,000-calorie diet in their 20s were 40% less likely to have calcified plaque in their arteries in their 40s, the study said.
– By Navmeen Khot
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