such as high blood pressure increase levels or excess weight they may therefore respond more quickly or more noticeably to a change in diet than a healthy person would to do the results still apply to healthy people endocrinologist andrus 5 1st says yes and the always the sort of one for more dollars diet is not to become terminally ill overnight but what you eat particularly when you reach middle age affects your health risks when you're $5060.00 or 70 when my 1st world diseases generally developing and diet also affects your weight of course. so in a nutshell nutrition studies are complex and if you provide results that are scientifically useful then said many do appear to indicate that a mediterranean diet has health benefits and eating plenty of vegetables is good for the heart along with vegetable protein nuts and whole grain products unfortunately the results for other foods are often contradictory. so