Previous Mediterranean diet was allegedly able to lower blood sugar levels in the body and help people with diabetes, but other new study found that the Mediterranean diet can also prevent the risk of stroke. A diet rich in olive oil, nuts, and other Mediterranean diet had a lower risk of heart attack, stroke or death from heart disease by 30 percent.
As we know that the Mediterranean diet emphasizes eating fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, fish and olive oil. In Greece, Spain and Italy this diet is emphasized to help reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer. Researchers have long observed that people from Mediterranean countries tend to have lower heart disease, but it is unclear whether it is hereditary, related to lifestyle, or due to differences in diet.
Researchers found that people who undergo the Mediterranean diet will decrease the risk of heart attack, stroke, and death from heart disease by 30 percent overall. Researchers from Tufts University’s USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Boston, USA randomly assigned more than 7,000 people aged 55-80 years in Spain that a low fat diet, Mediterranean diet nuts are high, and a Mediterranean diet high in olive oil, then the researchers analyzed their health data for 5 years in 2010, some of the participants have a genetic trait that is almost the same gene mutation that increases the risk of diabetes-2 by 50%..
As a result, the researchers found that those who have the gene mutation and implement a low-fat diet turns almost 3 times more likely to have the possibility to have a stroke, but for those who follow the Mediterranean have the same level in people without the gene mutation.
Mediterranean diet is not going to hurt anyone, but it will help people with risk factors or who have a family history of stroke, “according to researchers at Tufts University.
These findings are very useful, but researchers still do not know how genetic variations associated with diabetes and risk of stroke.
The researchers observed that the Mediterranean diet, coupled with olive oil, or nuts, can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease substantially, especially among those at high risk, “said Rachel Johnson, professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont and speakers for the American Heart Association.
