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My Connections Magazine CONNECTIONS May 2016 If you work at a desk, sip water throughout the day. Drink water out of glass containers. Try to avoid the plastic water bottles as they are made from many different chemicals that have the potential to leach into the water – and those chemicals your body doesn’t need whatsoever. Sip warm or hot water during a meal, not ice drinks to help with digestion. Eat fruits and vegetables high in water content. This habit provides not just fluid but vitamins, minerals, and other healthy nutrients. Soups are another good source of fluid plus nutrients. Try to avoid beverages like sodas that are sweetened with sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and other ingredients that your body doesn’t need. They provide little, if anything, in the way of nutrients, and if consumed regularly, can contribute to metabolic syndrome and diabetes, and a host of problems. Med Plus: Mediterranean Plus Primary Offering is Food and Restaurant review. There are many diets-du-jour to choose from. And most likely you’ve heard and read about most of them. But when it comes to promises of better health and a sleek physique — few can stand up to the Mediterranean diet. In fact, the benefits you gain from the foods of the Mediterranean diet are so strong, the most recent study shows the diet can decrease your risk of stroke, heart attack or death more than if you gave up all of the the bad foods, like grains, deep-fried foods and sugary sweet desserts and drinks, typical of the Western diet followed by most Americans. In other words, it looks like you have proof that you can mostly follow the healthy Mediterranean diet, eat more fresh fruits and vegetables, fish and olive oil — and cheat with some of those “guilty-pleasure foods” — yet still hold onto your health. So why is your doctor forcing you to eat only the “healthy foods?” Likely because he’s 16
My Connections Magazine CONNECTIONS May 2016 hung up on outdated advice. Because you’ll soon see that you can have your cake — or fried pie — and eat it too without going into cardiac arrest… The study, which is published in the European Heart Journal, 1 showed that for every 100 people eating the highest proportion of healthy “Mediterranean” foods, there were three fewer heart attacks, strokes or deaths than compared to 100 people eating the least amount of healthy foods during nearly four years of follow-up from the time the participants joined the study. The people who participated in the study — all 15,482 of them — had been previously diagnosed with coronary artery disease. After participating in a food survey, they were given a Mediterranean diet score (MDS) which assigned points — from 0 to 24 —based on their consumption of healthy foods. The amount of unhealthy foods they ate was assigned a Western diet score (WDS). The participants fell into the three major MDS score ranges: 15 or over (those who ate the most amounts of healthy foods); 13-14 (somewhere in the middle); and 12 or lower (ate the least healthy). Almost four years later, researchers followed up. They saw that 10.1 percent (1,588) of the folks in the study had experienced a major adverse cardiovascular event (MACE) — either a heart attack, stroke or death. What did their scores mean in all of this? Not surprisingly, the lowest percentage of people experiencing a MACE event — 7.3 percent — fell within the 17
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