In the August 10, 2009 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine there was yet another medical study verifying that living a healthy lifestyle is good for our health. A healthy lifestyle was defined in the paper by the four habits of not smoking, eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables, exercising every day, and maintaining a healthy body weight – what I have called “The Magic Formula.” People in the study who adhered to all four habits had an 80% overall reduction in the risk of developing a major chronic disease during 8 years of follow-up.
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Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian is a cardiologist at Harvard Medical School. In 2008 he published an article in the journal Circulation entitled “Beyond Established and Novel Risk Factors: Lifestyle Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease.”
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We all know that too much sodium in our diet is unhealthy. A new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that the ratio of sodium to potassium in our diet has a significant impact on our risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
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I was interviewed by Mindy Todd on WCAI, my local NPR station here on Cape Cod, about the JUPITER study. You may recall that I talked about the JUPITER study in Fitness Rocks Podcast 121.
You can listen to my NPR interview with Mindy Todd by clicking this link: Fitness Rocks on NPR
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