Healthy lifestyle advice provides long-term benefits

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/w-hla030716.php

Public Release: 7-Mar-2016
Healthy lifestyle advice provides long-term benefits
Wiley

In a recently published study, providing advice over a 5-year period about leading a healthy lifestyle reduced the risk of heart-related deaths over the next 40 years.

Participants were advised to decrease the intake of saturated fats and increase fish and vegetable products. In addition, overweight individuals were advised to reduce their weight and smokers were advised to stop smoking.

Those who received the advice showed a sustained 29% reduced risk of death at first heart attack compared with individuals who did not receive the advice, for up to 40 years. Death from any cause decreased in the period 8 to 20 years after randomization, but not thereafter.

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