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fromwww.independent.co.uk
6 days ago

Scientists reveal best ways to protect yourself from heart disease

Adopting eight healthy habits from a young age can greatly reduce future heart disease risk, while neglect can increase heart attack or stroke risk up to tenfold.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Potassium-rich diet may cut risk of heart failure by 24%, study suggests

The senior study author, Prof Henning Bundgaard, a professor at Copenhagen University hospital, said: The human body evolved on a potassium-rich, sodium-poor diet when we were born and raised on the savannah and eating [fruit and vegetables]. We [now] tend to go to [a] modern diet that is processed foods and, the more processed, we see more and more sodium in the food and less potassium, meaning that the ratio between the two has changed from 10:1 to 1:2 a dramatic change.
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