This 2009 Harvard study demonstrates the importance of:
• Giving up Smoking
• Controlling High Blood Pressure by exercise, diet and medications
• Getting off of the couch and walking and/or exercising daily
• Reducing Salt in our food
• Increasing Omega-3 Fats in our diet or taking an Omega-3 supplement
• Controlling Blood Glucose via diet, exercise and medication
• Lowering LDL Cholesterol via diet, exercise and medication
• Limiting Alcohol consumption
• Increasing Fruit and Vegetable consumption
• Using more vegetable oils in cooking and reducing intake of animal source and saturated fats
• Taking a one-a-day multivitamin
From the summary:
In 2005,
Tobacco smoking and high blood pressure were responsible for an estimated 467,000 deaths, accounting for about one in five or six deaths in US adults.
Overweight–obesity and physical inactivity were each responsible for nearly 1 in 10 deaths.
High dietary salt, low dietary omega-3 fatty acids, and high dietary trans fatty acids were the dietary risks with the largest mortality effects.
Although 26,000 deaths from ischemic heart disease, ischemic stroke, and diabetes were averted by current alcohol use, they were outweighed by 90,000 deaths from other cardiovascular diseases, cancers, liver cirrhosis, pancreatitis, alcohol use disorders, road traffic and other injuries, and violence.
Smoking and high blood pressure, which both have effective interventions, are responsible for the largest number of deaths in the US. Other dietary, lifestyle, and metabolic risk factors for chronic diseases also cause a substantial number of deaths in the US.
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