Diet Redux: Which Food Type Leads to Heart Attacks?

No topic has been more hotly debated over recent decades than the role of various foods in the development of atherosclerosis. The earliest animal experiments demonstrated that diets rich in fat and cholesterol produced arterial lesions that resembled atherosclerosis in humans1. Over subsequent decades, a great deal of animal and human research has been performed exploring the concept that dietary composition is related to the development of atherosclerosis. The earliest theories followed the direction of the early animal experiments mentioned above: These investigations demonstrated that diets containing large amounts of fat, particularly animal fat, were tied to the development of atherosclerosis with subsequent development of myocardial infarction and stroke.
Source: The American Journal of Medicine - Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Commentary Source Type: research