Healthy diet linked to lower death rates among low-income residents in Southeastern USA
Eating a healthy diet was linked with a lower risk of dying from heart disease, stroke, cancer or other diseases among a population of low-income individuals living in the Southeastern U.S., according to investigators. Nearly two-thirds of the participants in the study were African-American.
June 30, 2015 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: diseases, healthy-diet, heart-disease, low-income-individuals, lower-risk, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, other-diseases, participants, southeastern, study, the-participants, the-study
DASH eating plan lowers long-term heart attack risk, especially among African-Americans
The DASH diet reduced the estimated risk of having a heart attack in the next ten years by 18 percent when compared to a typical American eating plan, according to a new study. Both whites and African-Americans benefited from the diet, but African-Americans had the greatest benefit. Researchers provided all the food to the participants in this eight-week study.
September 1, 2010 · by admin · in Nutritional News · Tags: diet, diet-reduced, eating-plan, estimated, food, from-the-diet, greatest, heart-attack, on call diets, participants, the-estimated
