I know this is considered the height of prevention but this is just pure laziness because it doesn't require any intellectual work that would be required if they have to find out how to stop the neuronal cascade of death.
http://uinterview.com/news/mediterranean-diet-could-be-key-in-avoiding-heart-disease-and-stroke-6663
The Mediterranean diet, which consists of fresh vegetables, fruits,
fish, legumes, nuts and olive oil, has shown to reduce the health risks
of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
A five-year dietary experiment carried out in Spain, consisted of
three groups — two that followed a variation of a Mediterranean diet and
another that followed (or attempted to follow) a low-fat diet. The two
former groups were encouraged to eat the foods aforementioned frequently
throughout the week, to limit red meat and baked sweets and to have
seven glasses of wine with meals per week. The latter group, while also
encouraged to eat lean fish, were told to eat pasta and bread, and to
stay away from olive oil and nuts.
All of the participants were at higher-than-normal cardiovascular
risk — half had Type 2 diabetes, and roughly 80 suffered from
hypertension. Throughout the five years of the study, 8 in the
Mediterranean diet groups suffered from a heart attack, stroke or
cardiovascular death, according to the findings published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Comparatively, a total of 11 on the control diet suffered such an
event. These results indicate about a 30% reduction in “events” for
those following the Mediterranean diet.
“Really impressive,” Rachel Johnson, a professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont and a spokeswoman for the American Heart Association told The New York Times.
“And the really important thing — the coolest thing — is that they used
very meaningful endpoints. They did not look at risk factors like
cholesterol or hypertension or weight. They looked at heart attacks and
strokes and death. At the end of the day, that is what really matters.”
Despite the low-fat dieters clocking in a daily calorie consumption
of roughly 1,960 to the Mediterranean dieters 2,200, it proved less
beneficial to the participants’ health. However, it is also important to
note that there was no reported weight loss associated with the
Mediterranean diet, and a majority of the participants were taking
statins or blood pressure or diabetes drugs in an ancillary effort to
reduce their heart disease risk. “As a doctor it is easier to say take a
pill,” Dr. Ramon Estruch, who conducted the study, told the Boston Globe. “But diet is a very powerful effect in protecting against cardiovascular disease.”
The study conducted in Spain, if transferred to the United States, is
likely to show even greater results, as a typical Western diet is
generally worse than that of those sampled, according to Dr. Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez. “The differences probably would be huge.”
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