Medical Labs and Health

The Mediterranean diet continues earned credentials with another study showing that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and olive oil can reduce the risk of a heart attack.

Researchers in Canada have studied the impact of regimes custom fitness and a Mediterranean-type diet with volunteers with risk factors for pre-clinical cardiovascular disease.

Almost one third of total deaths (16.7 million) arising from various forms of cardiovascular disease can be prevented through actions linked against the primary risk factors: unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and snuff.

Scientists at the University of Western (Ontario) found that some “structural and functional measures” of the risk of heart disease may improve after only two months of following a Mediterranean diet and exercise program.

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