From the Wellness Committee: Reducing your chance for heart disease

Thanks to Valerie Horne for this contribution. From the Food Revolution Network.

What Long-Running, Double-Blind Clinical Studies Say

Thousands of nutritional studies are published every year, with mounds of evidence on the best diet for heart health.

Harvard researchers tracked diet and health information from 120,000 men and women in two long-running trials. The study found that people who replaced saturated fat with legumes, whole grains, and whole-food carbohydrates substantially lowered their risk of heart disease.

A randomized trial published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that eating more vegetables led to a 42% reduction in heart disease-related death.

Dr. Ornish’s Lifestyle Heart Trial saw an 82% reduction in coronary atherosclerosis after only one year on the Ornish program, which featured a plant-based diet, without the use of statins or cholesterol-lowering drugs.

A study at Cleveland Clinic found that out of 22 patients, all of whom suffered from severe heart disease, 17 stuck to the diet and stopped the progression of disease, and four experienced a complete reversal.

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