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Mediterranean diet would protect the heart even without sport

The Mediterranean diet is beneficial for our health and more particularly for our cardiovascular system. When you are at high cardiovascular risk, it would be effective even without sport, if you base yourself on the level of polyamine in the blood, which is not yet a marker of high reliability.

Caution … This article is not intended to promote the absence of sport in your daily life. Quite the contrary. Lack of activity physical and furthermore physical inactivity are risk factors major cardiovascular disease. Nevertheless, we will try to fight against the "all or nothing". If you have this bad habit that some of us adopt, we either do it all or nothing at all. Never halfway. If you are at high cardiovascular risk, following a good Mediterranean type diet seems as effective with or without caloric restriction and with or without sport on certain protective markers of our small blood pump, in any case, according to this recent experience, which should be replicated to confirm its findings.

Mediterranean diet and lifestyle: what the study says

In this study (of which only the summary is available, which calls for caution), the researchers compared the effect a Mediterranean diet with promotion of calorie restriction and of physical activity has a Mediterranean diet all that is most classic without these two parameters. Their attention was focused on the influence of these two interventions on the polyamine content and metabolites similar in the serum subjects at high risk of cardiovascular disease.

Polyamines are molecules which is particularly found in the Mediterranean diet. Several journals discuss the protective role it could play in this diet but the hypothesis is not yet consensus, due to the lack of sufficient data. We therefore understand that the markers on which scientists are based are not completely reliable. This leads to take the information that this article delivers with caution.

Participant data comes from the large cohort Predimed. Here, it is the data of 75 people who have been analyzed and who suggest that caloric restriction and physical activity in addition to the Mediterranean diet make no significant difference in the level of polyamine in the blood after 26 weeks of intervention . Similarly, with regard to the concentrations ofhemoglobin glycated, HDL-cholesterol or triglycerides. On the other hand, and this information is far from trivial, the group promoting calorie restriction and physical activity eats slightly less (340 to 567 kcal less), has more sustained physical activity and a significant decrease in body mass index.

Some practical advice

To protect your heart, lifestyle is a key lever. First, avoid the toxic, especially the tobacco, and get help to quit smoking. If you already consume it, drink alcohol with a lot of moderation (and not, a small glass of red every day with the meal it is not moderation, even if it is your doctor who said it). Adopt the Mediterranean diet (cereals complete, legumes, Pisces, vegetables, fruits, dairy products, etc.) and the lifestyle that goes with it (playing sport on a regular basis at a moderate intensity, enriching one's social ties, etc.). Take time to relax, practicing forms of meditation diverse and varied. The robustness of their effectiveness is not yet well demonstrated, but it does not cost much to take five minutes a day to land and blow. If you are at high risk, your doctor may also prescribe you medication adequate to limit the latter.

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