Title: Heart Disease and Poor Diet
Headings: How Poor Diet Raises Your Risk of Dying from Heart Disease
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How Poor Diet Raises Your Risk of Dying from Heart Disease
Effect of 10 dietary factors
Positive dietary changes
Fewer trying to lose weight

Content: In addition, she highlighted promising initiatives like programs in the workplace and schools to promote healthier eating, and improvements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for people in the United States with low or no income. But even without the government’s help, people can take charge of their own health — even if it is one small change at a time. “Eat more of the good and less of the bad,” said Micha. “ Start by making one healthier choice each day and build on it. Read more: Eating too much salt causes 1.6 million deaths per year »
Fewer trying to lose weight
Another risk factor for heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes not addressed by the new study is being overweight or obese. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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, more than two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese. And one-fifth of adolescents are obese. But as overweight and obesity have increased in the United States, fewer people are trying to lose weight, report the authors of a research letter
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published in the same issue of JAMA. Researchers used the responses of more than 27,000 adults from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) to determine shifts in weight loss over the past few decades.