27.Experts Want More Studies of Diet’s Role for the Heart

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/health/experts-want-more-studies-of-mediterranean-diets-role-for-the-heart.html?ref=health&_r=0

Due to the high rates of hearts attack not only in America but worldwide the field of nutrition have been investigating and testing many way in altering people's diet that causes less heart diseases, strokes and attacks. As a result, researchers have shown that a diet can have an effect as powerful as drugs in preventing what really matters to patients  heart attacks, and strokes and deaths from cardiovascular diseases. the tests were for subjects who already had a high risk of a heart disease and the diet that was tested on them was the meditteranean which is a diet high in olive oil and nuts.The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute is supporting a large clinical trial to see if fish oil and vitamin D  can prevent heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths. although that is important  heart experts say it is time to also look at diets as a whole. and these cardiovascular issues take us back to the year of 1950 where the concerns of doctors of finding a way to treat heart attacks started. up until discovering the effects of the mediterranean diet, many cardiocasvular disease treatments advised the patiets to stay in bad for four to five week and intake lidocaine to make their heart beats in a normal rate which turned out to fastened the death of these patients. which was when in Spain more than 7.000 people were randomly assigned to try the meditteranean diet and follow  the sort of standard low-fat diet that cardiologists often prescribe , after 5 years the results were promising those on the mediterranean diet had 30% less heart attacks,strokes and cardiovascular disease. which is now leading to other studies that makes the patient practice exercising while doing the mediterranean diet . Dr. Daniel J. Rader, a heart disease specialist at the University of Pennsylvania said "“Given the importance of diets and given the decades of dietary recommendations we have given to people, you would think we would have had more dietary studies with hard endpoints to get at these questions" highlighting why such decisions has to be made.

The authors pupose for this article is in fact a subject that has been concerning people of various nations. It gave the response to prolongate life with the introduction to a new diet that descreases to rates of having heart strokes, attacks and diseases which many individuals are fighting their lives for. It shows how these high rates of heart diseases has been concerning highly well known doctors in order to fix this problem , it may have taken them several years but nothing more excites them in knowing that they found a chemical-free way to help the patients' health get better. the author used many examples to show this he put in facts of the test of the amount of people who were on the diet and the surprising results and the thought of highly respected doctors from their own specialized fields to speak about their thoughts on such diets which were very successful in letting the reader know that