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Study: Whole grain products reduce risk of cardiovascular disease

Whole Grain Diet Feed

Modern pace of life and unbalanced nutrition increasingly cause cardiovascular diseases. Recent studies have found that to avoid the above diseases can help a diet enriched with whole grain products. Researchers at Nestlé and the Cleveland Clinic have found that for people under 50, the risk of cardiovascular disease is significantly reduced if refined grain products are replaced with whole grain products in their diet.

The study has shown that whole grain products can help regulate blood pressure, thereby reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease and their death.

A group of people with a strong over weight participated in the study by nestlé research center and the Cleveland Clinic. For two periods of eight weeks, these persons consumed a completely identical diet, but for one group the diet was supplemented with whole grain products and the other with refined, i.e. fully purified, grain products.

During the study, it was found that diastolic blood pressure (the lowest pressure when the heart relaxed) decreased three times in people whose diets contained only refined grain products. Such a reduction in blood pressure is similar to a 30% reduced risk of death from heart disease and a 40% reduction in the risk of death from stroke.

Whole grain products are necessary for a daily diet

What are whole grain products? First of all, whole grain products should not be mixed with coarsely ground or unmalted grain products. Flour can be minced from whole grain products, but it is not sifted. Whole grain is distinguished by the fact that the outer part of the grain is not separated from it – the husk. In other words, whole grain is an incompletely purified grain.

One of the best examples of such a grain is buckwheat groats. There are always whole grain groats. Rice is a little different – most often it is treated by separating the outer layer of grain, so all white rice is not whole grain groats. Whole grain groats are exclusively wild (with rind) and brown rice, the outer layer of which has only been partially purified.

The study, which revealed the effects of whole grain products on cardiovascular disease prevention, is one of the largest health effects studies of whole grain products. Following the release of the results of the study, Nestlé is committed to promoting the use of a diet enriched with whole grain products, first enriching its food products with whole grains. For example, 85% of dry breakfasts for children and adolescents produced by the company are basic ingredients of whole grains.