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Saturday, May 10, 2014

High-fiber diet may be beneficial for heart attack survivors.

TIME (4/30) reports on its website that a “study of heart attack survivors shows that people who ate the most fiber had a 25% lower chance of dying nine years later from any cause compared to people who consumed less.” Researchers found that each “increase of 10g of fiber each day was on average linked to a 15% lower risk of dying over the study period.”
        HealthDay (4/30, Norton) reports that “fiber from grains seemed particularly important, the researchers reported April 29 in the online edition of BMJ.” Those “who ate the most ‘cereal fiber’ – from foods like oatmeal, barley and whole-wheat pasta – were 27 percent less likely to die during the study period, versus those who ate the least.” BBC News (4/30, Roberts) also covers the story.

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