Influence of dairy product and milk fat
consumption on cardiovascular disease risk: a review of the evidence.
Last year's press release (Dutch) described a meta - analysis of 17 studies about the effects of milk and dairy
consumption on cardiovascular disease and mortality by researchers at WUR, Harvard, and the University of California, San Diego.
Not exact matches
New York City's Board of Health recently voted to require restaurants to put salt warnings
on menus even though the science
on salt
consumption and
cardiovascular disease is not yet settled.
Comparing different policy scenarios to reduce the
consumption of ultra-processed foods in UK: impact
on cardiovascular disease mortality using a modelling approach
This observation has precipitated numerous observational studies and randomized controlled trials of the effect of added sugars or SSB
consumption on body weight and
cardiovascular disease risk factors (6, 8, 9).
Higher dairy
consumption has been associated with beneficial effects
on cardiovascular disease - related comorbidities such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and insulin resistance.
It said the press release was based
on four European studies with a limited number of cases, but that the broader analysis showed that heart attacks and strokes, the two most important forms of
cardiovascular disease, «were not significantly associated with milk
consumption.»
To assess the impact of mono - unsaturated fatty acids
consumption on death from
cardiovascular disease and other causes, researchers used data from 63,412 women from the Nurses» Health Study and 29,966 men from the Health Professionals Follow - Up Study.
Even further, studies
on high - fat diets show that increased
consumption of saturated fat has beneficial impacts
on cardiovascular disease risk markers, including decreasing the level of triglycerides, fasting glucose, blood pressure, as well as increasing HDL cholesterol blood levels.
The researchers concluded their study by noting that estimated fitness level — in consideration with other risk factors such as smoking status, alcohol
consumption, and other health conditions — could have a major impact
on identifying people at risk for future
cardiovascular disease.
We've previously warned of the danger of chocolate deficiency, based
on a systematic review that found: «The highest levels of chocolate
consumption were associated with a 37 % reduction in
cardiovascular disease and a 29 % reduction in stroke.»
But for the last word
on smoking and cholesterol, we turn to a 2009 study in Risk Analysis that examined five changeable risk factors for
cardiovascular disease: smoking, egg yolk
consumption, exercise, BMI, and diet.
Effects of habitual coffee
consumption on cardiometabolic
disease,
cardiovascular health, and all - cause mortality.
The problem is getting a handle
on what exactly this means, particularly when these same changes seem to have no effect
on lipid levels, and the risk of dying from
cardiovascular disease is at best weakly associated with high salt
consumption (15 % increase in risk).
«'' Although dietary recommendations have focused
on restricting saturated fat (SF)
consumption to reduce
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, evidence from prospective studies has not supported a strong link between total SF intake and CVD events... A higher intake of dairy SF was associated with LOWER CVD risk.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396447/ — «Although dietary recommendations have focused
on restricting saturated fat (SF)
consumption to reduce
cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, evidence from prospective studies has not supported a strong link between total SF intake and CVD events... A higher intake of dairy SF was associated with LOWER CVD risk.
Greater
consumption of fruits and vegetables (5 - 13 servings or 2 1/2 - 6 1/2 cups per day depending
on calorie needs) is associated with a reduced risk of stroke and perhaps other
cardiovascular diseases, with a reduced risk of cancers in certain sites (oral cavity and pharynx, larynx, lung, esophagus, stomach, and colon - rectum), and with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes (vegetables more than fruit).