Current Events > Study: "Southern food damages heart. Eat more plants instead."

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https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/44222917/too-much-southern-food-can-cause-a-sudden-heart-attack-but-mediterranean-diet-reduced-risk

You don't have to be Southern to love fried chicken, buttered biscuits, sausage gravy, sweet tea or any of the other fried and fat- or sugar-laden foods typical of thisAmerican region.

But a new study found eating a steady diet of traditional Southern food can make you 46% more likely to die from a sudden cardiac death -- that's when the heart suddenly stops -- than people who don't often eat those foods.

Sudden cardiac death is a common cause of death and "accounted for 1 in every 7.5 deaths in the United States in 2016, or nearly 367,000 deaths," according to an American Heart Association statement. When this type of heart attack occurs, the AHA says, death typically comes within an hour.

"Improving one's diet -- by eating a diet abundant in fruits, vegetables, whole grains and fish such as the Mediterranean diet -- and low in fried foods, organ meats and processed meats, characteristics of the Southern-style dietary pattern, may decrease one's risk for sudden cardiac death," said lead author James Shikany, in a statement.

Shikany is a professor of medicine and associate director for research in the Division of Preventive Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

In what researchers are calling the first observational study to evaluate the role of dietary patterns in sudden cardiac death, the team analyzed data from a national study called Regards (Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke).

Shikany and his team examined data from some 21,000 people. More than half were from the "stroke belt," an area of 11 states in the Southeast where rates of stroke are traditionally high. For this study, those states included North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana.

According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, people who live in the stroke belt are two to four times more likely to die from stroke than in other regions of the country. Prior studies have shown that people eating a predominately Southern diet had a higher risk of death from any cause and a greater risk of coronary heart disease.

It's not surprising that a plant-based diet was shown to be healthier for the heart. Three plant-based diets, the Mediterranean, the Ornish and the DASH diet tied for the top spot in the 2021 U.S. News and World Report ranking of best heart-healthy diets.

The Ornish diet was created in 1977 by Dr. Dean Ornish, founder of the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute in California. Ornish calls the diet the only scientifically proven program to reverse heart disease in a randomized clinical trial without drugs or surgery. Experts have said the diet is restrictive and hard to follow, however.

The DASH diet is often recommended to lower blood pressure. Studies have shown that following the DASH diet can reduce blood pressure in a matter of weeks.

Its premise is simple: Eat more veggies, fruits and low-fat dairy foods while cutting way back on any food high in saturated fat and limit your intake of salt.

Wow. Things deep fried in flour and oil and cooked in buckets of butter is bad for you? What a revelation!

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TheVipaGTS posted...

Wow. Things deep fried in flour and oil and cooked in buckets of butter is bad for you? What a revelation!

I mean, it's obvious to people like us. But you'd be surprised at how many people out there still think things like orange juice, refined flour, and more are healthy.

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this is racist

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Studying what is already obvious.

The Trent posted...

study: a room used by men to jerk off

What the hell?

You always say the craziest things.

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Is it ok for me to eat steaks and porkchops if im skinny

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Does this account and/or control for the increased obesity rates in the South that would make a heart have to work even harder and more likely to suddenly stop?

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can i add bacon grease to it?

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fuck that
Fry that shit in butter

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Everything is better fried
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