{"id":540,"date":"2008-10-21T09:07:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T09:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=540"},"modified":"2008-10-21T09:07:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T09:07:01","slug":"the-western-diet-kills-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-western-diet-kills-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Western diet kills you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An extensive study reinforces what we have known for decades: the western diet high in salt, fat and sugar increases the death rate by 30%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/\">Circulation<\/a> journal reports that researchers analysed the diet of 16,000 people in 52 countries and identified three global eating patterns.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The typical Western diet, high in fat, salt and meat, accounted for about 30% of heart attack risk in any population.<\/li>\n<li> A &#8220;prudent&#8221; diet high in fruit and veg lowered heart risk by a third.<\/li>\n<li> An Oriental diet, high in tofu, soy and other sauces, made no difference to heart attack risk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, if you swap fried, fatty, salted food for fruit and salad, you&#8217;ll halve the chance of dying from a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/7680283.stm\">BBC report here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extensive study reinforces what we have known for decades: the western diet high in salt, fat and sugar increases the death rate by 30%. Circulation journal reports that researchers analysed the diet of 16,000 people in 52 countries and identified three global eating patterns. The typical Western diet, high in fat, salt and meat, &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/the-western-diet-kills-you\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Western diet kills you.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-8I","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}