NOW WILL U LISTEN To YOUR MOTHER SCIENTISTS SAY FRUIT VEGETABLE DIET GOOD FOR HEART BUT FRIED SALTY FOODS EGGS MEAT INCREASE CHANCE OF HEART ATTACK

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Oh No! You better drive right out of that drive thru window if you know what's good for you. If you read healty medical Blog you know I have written over and over about the relationship between eating certain "bad" foods and heart attack and certain "good diets" that seem to protect from heart attack like the Mediterranean Diet. Like vegetables, olive oil and so forth. In the latest salvo in the food and diet wars,a report in the heart medical journal Circulation, scientists presented evidence that the food that many people in the United States and Europe eat, you know the good stuff like salty foods, fried foods, salty snacks, eggs, and meat can make you sick, literally and increase your chance of a heart attack.



People who ate a Western diet had a 35 percent greater risk of having a heart attack compared to those who ate little or no fried foods and meat. Those who followed a Prudent diet, high in fruits and vegetables had a 30 percent lower risk of heart attack compared to those who went light on fruits and vegetables.



"Diet is a major modifiable risk factor for (heart) cardiovascular disease, but it varies markedly in different regions of the world". The scientists looked at what they classified as three of the major diet patterns practiced in the world. They classified them as the Prudent Diet, the Western Diet and the Oriental Diet. The objectives of the present study were to assess the association between dietary patterns and acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) globally.The Prudent Diet, which with a name like that obviously was good for you, lowered your chance of heart attack, the Western Diet increased heart attack risk and they didn't find any association with the oriental diet.



"INTERHEART is a standardized case-control study involving participants from 52 countries. The present analysis included 5761 cases and 10 646 control subjects. We identified 3 major dietary patterns using factor analysis: Oriental (high intake of tofu and soy and other sauces), Western (high in fried foods, salty snacks, eggs, and meat), and prudent (high in fruit and vegetables). We observed an inverse association between the prudent pattern and heart attack AMI, with higher levels being protective... The Western pattern showed a U-shaped association with heart association AMI.. but the Oriental pattern demonstrated no relationship with AMI. Compared with the first quartile, the OR of a dietary risk score derived from meat, salty snacks, fried foods, fruits, green leafy vegetables, cooked vegetables, and other raw vegetables (higher score indicating a poorer diet) increased with each quartile: second quartile 1.29 (95% CI 1.17 to 1.42), third quartile 1.67 (95% CI 1.51 to 1.83), and fourth quartile 1.92 (95% CI 1.74 to 2.11; P for trend <0.001). The adjusted population-attributable risk of heart attack ..AMI for the top 3 quartiles compared with the bottom quartile of the dietary risk score was 30%".



"Conclusions: An unhealthy dietary intake, assessed by a simple dietary risk score, increases the risk of heart attack AMI globally and accounts for 30% of the population-attributable risk".

Dietary Patterns and the Risk of Acute Myocardial Infarction in 52 Countries. Results of the INTERHEART Study








"This study indicates that the same relationships that are observed in Western countries exist in different regions of the world," study senior author Salim Yusuf, a professor of medicine at McMaster University and director of the Population Health Research Institute at Hamilton Health Sciences in Ontario, said in an American Heart Association news release".

Gastronomic and Atomic Israel Research on Diets and Health