Saturated fat alone doesn't predict heart disease risk

[Political Junky]

Very interesting, indeed.< my comment

Saturated fat alone doesn't predict heart disease risk - Health - CBC News

There's no clear evidence supporting decades-old dietary guidelines to cut our saturated fat intake to promote heart health, a new review concludes.

The review of 45 observational studies and 27 randomized trials on coronary heart disease risks based on diet data from more than 600,000 people in Europe, North America and Asia was published in Monday’s issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Polyunsaturated fats tend to be liquid (olive oil, safflower oil and canola oil). Foods high in saturated fats include coconut oil, butter, nuts, poultry and red meat.

Despite a focus on reducing saturated fat in the diet dating back to the 1970s, saturated fat by itself did not help predict heart disease risk, said study author Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian of the department of epidemiology at Harvard University in Boston.

"Current evidence does not clearly support guidelines that encourage high consumption of polyunsaturated fatty acids and low consumption of total saturated fats," the researchers concluded.

In the past five to 10 years, it’s become clear that it’s wrong to take a single nutrient like saturated fat and use that to explain heart disease, Mozaffarian said. "It’s much more complicated."
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[Delta4Embassy]

Would say the number one indicator of heart disease risk is whether or not you're American.

 

[DGS49]

80% genetic.

10% diet.

10% lifestyle (exercise).

Jim Fixx.

The amazing development that people don't talk about much is that we have DRUGS now that keep people alive for decades after theit first heart attack. This didn't used to be the case. I remember an uncle of mine having a heart attack in the 70's and the doctors told us the rule of thumb was 50% last five more days. He didn't. Now, a heart attack is a controllable event. Or so it seems.

 

[Jughead]

Saturated fat alone doesn't predict heart disease risk

Many of us already knew this. In my family, we are a major consumer of fast food, have been for decades, and no one has ever been diagnosed with heart disease. If family history does not include heart disease, chances are you will not get it. May as well enjoy whatever food you like without giving it a second thought. However, if family history does include heart disease, then diet and exercise are extremely important as is routine evaluation by a doctor, preferably a cardiologist.

 

[waltky]

Granny says, "Den why is the divorce rate so high?...

Study: Married folks have fewer heart problems
28 Mar.`14 ~ Love can sometimes break a heart but marriage seems to do it a lot of good. A study of more than 3.5 million Americans finds that married people are less likely than singles, divorced or widowed folks to suffer any type of heart or blood vessel problem.

This was true at any age, for women as well as for men, and regardless of other heart disease risk factors they had such as high cholesterol or diabetes, researchers found. "It might be that if someone is married, they have a spouse who encourages them to take better care of themselves," said Dr. Jeffrey Berger, a preventive cardiologist at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York. But "we can't prove by any means cause and effect," he said.

This is the largest look at marriage and heart health, said Dr. Carlos Alviar, a cardiology fellow who led the study with Berger. Previous studies mostly compared married to single people and lacked information on divorced and widowed ones. Or they just looked at heart attacks, whereas this one included a full range from clogged arteries and abdominal aneurysms to stroke risks and circulation problems in the legs.

Researchers used health questionnaires that people filled out when they sought various types of tests in community settings around the country from an Ohio company, Life Line Screening Inc. Some of these screening tests, for various types of cancer and other diseases or conditions, are not recommended by leading medical groups, but people can still get them and pay for them themselves.

The study authors have no financial ties to the company and are not endorsing this type of screening, Berger said. Life Line gave its data to the Society of Vascular Surgery and New York University to help promote research. The results are from people who sought screening from 2003 through 2008. Their average age was 64, nearly two-thirds were female and 80 percent were white. They gave information on smoking, diabetes, family history, obesity, exercise and other factors, and researchers had blood pressure and other health measures.

The study found:

 

[Politico]

Holy Captain Obvious. Only 20 years late on that revelation.