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Dietary modifications to prevent chronic disease

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What actions can you take to reduce your risk for diet related chronic diseases? Do you feel you could do a better job reducing your risk in the future?

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Dietary modifications to prevent chronic disease is attainable based upon clinical trials and evidenced based data.

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In efforts to reduce the risk of diet related chronic disease, there should be active measures to adhere to a diet with a low glycemic index (GI) or glycemic load (GL) food sources which could be a precursor to insulin resistance and diabetes. There is growing evidence suggesting that fruit and vegetable consumption is inversely related to the risk of CHD and stroke as evident in the INTERHEART study which demonstrated that a lack of daily consumption of fruits and vegetables accounted ...

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