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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Reduce Heart Disease With Low Fat Diet

By Haiyan Lai-Heskin

300 million people worldwide are obese. Studies have shown that obesity and heart disease are inevitably linked. And more than half of all deaths occurring each year in the United States are heart attacks and strokes.

It's not only fashionable to lose your extra pounds - it could save your life. One of the reasons people are encouraged to lose weight, exercise regularly and make wiser food choices is to avoid obesity.

The worst thing about heart disease is that people can go decades without any sign or symptoms and suddenly have a massive heart attack and drop dead.

There is something everyone can do without great inconvenience if you are already overweight. you can follow the low-fat diet with no difficulty, without having to suffer a bland, unexciting series of daily menus.By eliminating certain foods from your diet, by including others in the right amounts, and by the use of nutritional supplements, you can achieve at least a 50 per cent protection against heart attack.

In the United States and Europe butter, eggs, whole milk, cream, meat, fish and poultry fats, and cheese in various combinations is the outstanding fats are being eaten daily.

In these fats, per gram contain 9 calories, which is more than twice the amount of calories than protein or carbohydrate does at four calories each per gram.

By reducing the fat intake will dramatically help you to lose weight. Researchs show that the reduction of fat content in the national diet have many effect on the number of deaths from heart attack.

Pathologists, doctors, and medical researchers, have since produced overwhelming evidence to show that when blood cholesterol and fats are high, the arteries were correspondingly high in the degree of damage or destruction by atherosclerosis. And when the blood levels of fat were low, the damage to heart and brain was also low.

By following a correct nutritional program, and to follow it consistently, one might almost say religiously, you will achieve the correct poundage and to keep it at that figure. But first you have to make up your mind that you want to do it, and then do it. And then stick to it.

Let us "eat to live, not live to eat." The low-fat diet holds great promise for everyone, whether the person has atherosclerosis or not. The low-fat way of life can be followed by anyone, anywhere, and it is simple, safe, effective.

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