CONNECTIONS THE MAY FLOWERS IISSUE MAY 2016

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My Connections Magazine CONNECTIONS May 2016 value. to recommend it. It also notched a poor mark for value. 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. 3. Ruby Tuesday Who could hang a name on you? Customers, apparently. Ruby Tuesday had the worst reputation among the 26 “varied menu” chains in the survey. It also got awful marks for value and craveability. 2. Logan’s Roadhouse Logan’s received the lowest ranking of any steakhouse in nine of the 10 categories surveyed, making it the worst of the six overall. 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 hung up on 1. Buffalo Wild Wings Grill & Bar The worst of the worst, this wing joint has the lowest ratings for cleanliness, menu variety and customers being likely outdated advice.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… 22
My Connections Magazine CONNECTIONS May 2016 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 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 group with the highest MDS score range of 15. Among those who had scored MDS of 13-14 — 10.5 percent had a MACE, while 10.8 percent of those with an MDS score of 12 or lower did. Professor Ralph Stewart, from Auckland City Hospital, University of Auckland, New Zealand, who led the study, said: “After adjusting for other factors that might affect the results, we found that every one unit increase in the Mediterranean diet score was associated with a seven percent reduction in the risk of heart attacks, strokes or death from cardiovascular or other causes in patients with existing heart disease.” But this part Dr. Stewart adds is where it gets real interesting… “In contrast, greater consumption of foods thought be less healthy and more typical of Western diets, was not associated with an increase in these adverse events, which we had not expected.” cardiovascular event (MACE) — either a heart attack, stroke or death. 23
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