Longer lifeline-now merely by class='tags' onclick="javascript:counttag('Dietary', 1, 485347)"; href="/tags/dietary/">dietary manipulation
Dr. L.K. Shankhdhar, Medical Director & Chief Diabetologist L.K. Diabetes Centre, Lucknow
A common heart disease, the Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), also called Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is the worst foe of mankind since most of the deaths in developed countries and a great proportion of deaths in developing countries are due to this single disease. Besides physical discomfort and incapacitation, the disease takes away a major part of the budget, since drugs, investigations and professional charges of this part of medical care are beyond the pocket of even upper middle class, what to talk of lower middle class and lower class. Disease
free longer lifeline might be anybody’s dream but it has come true now, as per a research paper published in December, 2004 issue of an International Journal of repute-“The British Medical Journal,” and that too by minor dietary manipulation, which is
expected to arouse compliance as well. Approximately 1½ years before another research paper was published in June, 2003 issue of the same journal which declared that if 6
pills were given to a normal; yet not diseased individual, he is expected to gain 11-12 years of fruitful and disease free years. These pills were a beta blocker e.g. Atenolol,€E Inhibitor e.g. Enalapril, Aspirin, a statin e.g. Atorvastatin, folic acid and a thiazide diuretic e.g. hydrochlorthiazide. This was based on inclusion of the medicines, which were required to reduce six
risk factors of the above mentioned heart disease-the Coronary Artery Disease. Consumption of so many pills, even when there was no disease, was neither cost feasible (costing approximately 500 rupees per month) nor expected patients to be compliant, and of course did carry risk of some side effects too, hence emerged the need to manipulate common diet to achieve similar objective. The present research is based on segregation of several reports already available on literature. Quantity of the commonly consumed dietary items and their expected risk reduction (
rr) of CHD are given in the parentheses e.g. Fish (114 G/day, RR: 14%), Dark chocolate (100 G/day, RR: 21%), Fruits and vegetables (400 G/day, RR: 21%), Garlic (2.7G/day, RR: 25%), Almond (68G/day, RR: 12.5%), Wine (150 ml/day, RR: 32%). Regular intake of these edibles is expected to reduce risk of CHD by 76% With the proposed diet, a man who starts this dietary regimen at 50 years is hoped to gain 9 years of disease free life.
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