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It’s hailed as one of the healthiest diets in the world, fighting heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and certain cancers. Here’s how to do it. Towards the end of.
Towards the end of the 1950s, researchers embarked on a mission to find the world’s healthiest diet. The Seven Countries Study, which ran until the early 1980s, looked at the eating habits and lifestyles of over 12,000 middle-aged men living in seven different countries, and their rates of heart disease and mortality.
New research found that higher consumption of ultra-processed foods is associated with higher cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality in people with type 2 diabetes. This was the case even if a person's diet seemed nutritionally balanced and healthy.