Scientist Finds New Diet Style for the Developing Countries
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Jakarta – A new study finds that whole fat dairy including cheese, whole yogurt and whole milk may help to prevent heart attacks, stroke, and other cardiovascular diseases.
What’s more, the study found that unprocessed red meat “can be part of a healthy diet". Those are the surprising results from experts who created a dietary ranking named the Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological Healthy Diet Score.
The PURE diet finds six food groups, fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, fish and whole fat dairy can lower the risk of heart disease.
Also, there's room in a healthy diet for whole grains and unprocessed meats (such as pork and beef, instead of bacon or salami).
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“Low-fat foods have taken center stage with the public with nutrition labels focused on reducing fat and saturated fat,” Dr. Andrew Mente, study author and assistant professor at McMaster University in Canada, said in a news release.
However, “our results show that up to two servings a day of dairy, mainly whole-fat, can be included in a healthy diet,” he added.
The PURE diet, published in the European Heart Journal, is based on the following six building blocks:
Fruit: 2 to 3 servings daily
Vegetables: 2 to 3 servings daily
Legumes (beans, lentils, peas): 3 to 4 servings weekly
Nuts: 7 servings weekly
Fish: 2 to 3 servings weekly
Dairy: 2 servings daily
“Moderate amounts of fish and whole-fat dairy are associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease,” Mente said.
“The same health outcomes can be achieved with moderate consumption of grains and meats as long as they are unrefined whole grains and unprocessed meats.”
The PURE diet differs from other healthy diets, like the Mediterranean diet, in that it was developed using information from wealthier Western economies as well as low-income countries.
The data used in the PURE analysis included 147,642 people from the general population of 21 countries across five continents, “This was by far the most diverse study of nutrition and health outcomes in the world and the only one with sufficient representation from high-, middle- and low-income countries,”
