Blocked wrote:
>
> Yahoo! News
> Heart Disease, Diabetes Are Preventable
>
> By Kathleen Doheny
> HealthDay ReporterSat Nov 12,11:47 PM ET
>
> SATURDAY, Nov. 12, 2005 (HealthDay News) -- Better lifestyle habits --
> think less junk food, more fish and more exercise -- can help prevent
> 80 percent of coronary heart disease and 90 percent of type 2 diabetes.
>
> That's the thrust of a report scheduled to be presented Saturday by Dr.
> Walter Willett, chairman of the Harvard School of Public Health's
> department of nutrition, at the American Society of Nephrology's annual
> meeting, in Philadelphia.
>
> "There is a huge potential for reducing the major causes of death, from
> cardiovascular disease and diabetes," said Willett, whose report was
> titled "Diet and Optimal Health: A Progress Report."
>
> He based the estimates on his own long-term study, the Nurses' Health
> Study II, begun in 1989, and the original that started 29 years ago,
> and dozens of other studies that have examined lifestyle habits and
> their effects on heart disease and diabetes.
>
> When people hear the figures of 80 percent and 90 percent, they're
> "surprised," Willett said. "But they shouldn't be. If you look back to
> Greece and Japan, they had heart-disease rates that were 90 percent
> lower" than the United States, a finding thought to be due to healthier
> diets.
>
> "We've known for a long time there is a potential for prevention," he
> added. But, he said, his review of dozens of studies revealed that the
> needed changes are not that dramatic.
>
> So how can you reduce your risk? Not smoking cigarettes is key, Willett
> said.
>
> "In the area of diet, we are only asking for fairly modest shifts," he
> said. The best diets, Willett said, focus on the types of carbohydrates
> and fats, rather than the amount of food, consumed daily.

That would depend on the goals.

The importance of weight loss can not be overemphasized in overweight
type 2 diabetics.

For weight loss, reducing the amount of food consumed daily is
absolutely essential.

Would be more than happy to "glow" and chat about this and other things
like cardiology, diabetes and nutrition that interest those following
this thread here next week:

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In Christ's love always,

Andrew
--
Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD
Board-Certified Cardiologist

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