50 years of studying diet, lifestyle related to cardiovascular diseases in new website

So with this your doctor should be able to tell you precisely how to prevent strokes and heart attacks. So ask them and not politely. They should know about this already if they were any good at all.
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At the 50th anniversary of the Seven Countries Study (SCS) a website with all kind of information about this study is launched. The Seven Countries Study explored in detail the associations of diet, lifestyle, other risk factors and cardiovascular diseases between and within populations. The study was conducted among 16 cohorts in the USA, Finland, the Netherlands, Italy, Greece, Former Yugoslavia and Japan, from 1964 to 2014. It provided an abundance of data.
The Seven Countries Study showed that serum cholesterol was strongly related to heart attack. Blood pressure was strongly associated not only to heart attack but also to other cardiovascular diseases such as stroke. The study showed also that cardiovascular diseases could largely be prevented by a healthy diet, sufficient physical activity, non-smoking and moderation of alcohol consumption. For a healthy diet the emphasis will be on whole grains, legumes, vegetables, fruit, fish and high quality fats and oils. 
The new website summarizes the history, design, and main study questions, and describes the investigators, countries and cohorts, and main study findings. These findings derive from the 10 monographs and some 500 original articles published largely in peer-reviewed journals. The first level of description is a brief summary in lay language which is linked to the abstract of the appropriate publication in PubMed, bringing access to the scientific content of the 50-year effort by scientists, students, journalists, and all interested in healthy ageing and the burden, causes, and prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
The SCS website is linked to other sites including that of the University of Minnesota School of Public Health on the history of cardiovascular disease epidemiology (http://www.epi.umn.edu/CVDepi/index.html), the Alpha Omega Trial of secondary prevention of heart attack (www.AlphaOmegaTrial.com), and the professional website of Daan Kromhout  (www.professorDaanKromhout.nl).
Wageningen University, the Netherlands, was one of the partners in the consortium of research organisations involved in the Seven Countries Study.
http://www.SevenCountriesStudy.com