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Those who ate right, exercised lowered chances of cardiovascular trouble

By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter

TUESDAY, July 21 (HealthDay News) -- All that heart-healthy advice about eating the right foods, exercising and losing weight pay off in real life for both men and women, two new studies show.

The reports, both originating at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and published in the July 22/29 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, focused on different aspects of cardiovascular risk in two large groups: the 83,882 women in the second Nurses' Health Study, and the 20,900 men in the Physicians' Health Study I. Both arrived at the same conclusion: Do the right things, and you get measurable benefits.

Simultaneous appearance of the two reports was more or less a coincidence, said Dr. Luc Djousse, an associate epidemiologist at Brigham and Women's at Harvard Medical School, who led the men's study.

The study in men looked at the relationship between the lifetime risk of heart failure and six lifestyle factors: obesity, exercise, smoking, alcohol intake, consumption of breakfast cereals, and consumption of fruits and vegetables.

"Previous studies have shown benefit from individual lifestyle factors," Djousse said. "We looked at all of these factors together."

That look found a straight-line relationship between adherence to healthy lifestyle factors and the risk of heart failure, the progressive loss of ability to pump blood that is often a prelude to death. The lifetime risk of heart failure in the 22-year study was about one in five in men who ignored the advice about all beneficial lifestyle factors and one in 10 for those who adhered to four or more of the factors.

"The one with a huge difference was adiposity," Djousse said. "The risk of heart failure was 17 percent in men who were overweight or obese, and about 11 percent in those of normal weight."

Exercise was the next most important. Heart failure occurred in 11 percent of the men who exercised five or more times a week and in 14 percent of those who did not exercise, Djousse said.

Smoking played a surprisingly small role, probably because its incidence was not high among the participants. "These were all physicians, so you would expect a smaller amount of smoking," Djousse said.

The women's study looked at the association between high blood pressure -- a significant risk factor for heart disease, stroke and other cardiovascular problems -- and six lifestyle factors: obesity, exercise, alcohol intake, use of non-narcotic painkillers, adherence to a diet designed to prevent high blood pressure and intake of supplemental folic acid. All six were found to be associated with the risk of developing high blood pressure in the 14-year study, and the association was cumulative.

Women who followed advice on all six factors -- just 0.3 percent of those in the group -- had an 80 percent lower incidence of high blood pressure than those who followed none of the rules. The incidence was 72 percent lower for the 0.8 percent of the women who followed five lifestyle rules, 58 percent lower for the 1.6 percent of the women following four rules and 53 percent lower for the 3.1 percent of the women who followed three rules. As in the male group, obesity was the most important risk factor.

While the clear message of both studies is that "a healthy lifestyle prevents a number of illnesses," what is often overlooked is that the choice of a healthy lifestyle is not a purely individual decision, said Dr. Veronique L. Roger, a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Mayo Clinic, who wrote an accompanying editorial.

"There is a shared responsibility between the individual and the community," said Roger, who read off a dictionary definition of lifestyle as "a typical way of life of an individual, group or culture."

"The reality is that society has engineered physical activity out of our lives," Roger said. "And it is difficult for me to tell someone in Nebraska to follow the Mediterranean diet, which is anchored in the culture of that society."

Government interventions, such as the decision of New York and other communities, to bar smoking in restaurants and bars, can help more people achieve the healthy lifestyles described in the two reports, she said.

Source: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/07/21/studies-affirm-value-of-healthy-lifestyle.html

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Source: http://www.content4reprint.com/health/wellness/10-signs-of-the-body-that-you-sue-you-do-not-eat-properly.html

Excess coffee consumption is bad for pregnant women, but it may benefit health in certain other groups

It's believed to improve mood, alertness, and energy. But is coffee bad for you? Despite past concerns about coffee, tea, and other sources of caffeine being detrimental to health, recent research suggests that regular coffee consumption may reduce the risk of health conditions such as type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and liver cancer—and regular coffee drinkers might even live longer. "For most people [who] choose to drink coffee, the benefits probably outweigh the risks," says Donald Hensrud, chair of the division of preventive medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Coffee is "not only a vehicle for caffeine," says van Dam. "It has a lot of other components." It's likely that those other components—such as antioxidants and fiber—account for some of coffee's health benefits, experts say. "We always hear about tea, and especially green tea, being a good source of antioxidants, but it's been reported that coffee may be the largest source of antioxidants among people who drink it," says Hensrud. More research is needed to understand how these other ingredients might benefit health among coffee drinkers.

Pregnancy problems. Experts say that caffeine should be avoided or limited during pregnancy. Drinking coffee during pregnancy has been linked to lower birth weight and an increased risk of miscarriage and stillbirth, though there is no proof at this point that caffeine causes miscarriages, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "We don't really know what the health effects of caffeine are for the fetus," van Dam says.

For those loyal to coffee, even quitting for the sake of their babies can be difficult. Zena Elizalde, 28, of Owings Mills, Md., said she struggled with giving up caffeine when she was pregnant, but she did cut back to one cup per day, half caffeinated, half decaffeinated. Since delivering a healthy baby in January, Elizalde is back up to her usual three-cups-per-day routine. She has her first cup at 8 or 9 a.m., another at 2 p.m., and a third at 5 p.m., when she heads to her second job. Without coffee, "I would feel like my day hasn't started," she says. "It gives me my jump-start for the day."

Aside from pregnancy, experts say that reasonable caffeine consumption doesn't seem to pose a threat to good health. But the caffeine in coffee is addictive, and the signs of withdrawal that coffee drinkers experience if they skip a few days are evidence of that, experts say. "We know that caffeine is the most widely used mood-altering drug in the world," says Roland Griffiths, a professor in the departments of psychiatry and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, who has studied caffeine extensively. "It is estimated that as much as 80 percent of the world's population consumes caffeine in one form or another." (Learn 6 signs of caffeine withdrawal.)

Another caution: Some studies suggest that drinking coffee may act as a trigger for heart attack among certain infrequent coffee drinkers, though more research is needed to confirm this. In any case, that potential risk is one that seems to dissipate in chronic coffee drinkers. Another: caffeine-induced spikes in blood pressure. In people who haven't been coffee-drinkers, if "they start using caffeine, you see a pronounced increase in blood pressure," van Dam says. But after a week or so, this effect is "much less pronounced than it was initially. ... There's still a bit of an elevation in blood pressure, but it's pretty modest," he says. The Nurses' Health Study, a long-running research project involving 238,000 nurse participants that looks at what influences women's health, examined consumption of coffee in relation to the development of high blood pressure and did not find a connection, according to results published in 2005 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Source: http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/diet-fitness/2009/06/25/is-coffee-bad-for-you-actually-drinking-coffee-may-be-good-for-you.html