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Good dietary habits may also help delay the progression of hardening of the arteries, according to a separate study published in the July issue of the The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers from Tufts University and Wake Forest University evaluated the effect of a good diet on the progression of coronary artery disease in 224 postmenopausal women who had the disease when they enrolled in the Estrogen Replacement and Atherosclerosis Study. The better the diet, the slower the progression of disease, they found.
"Both studies are finding similar things," said Penny Kris-Etherton, a distinguished professor of nutrition at Penn State University, who wrote an editorial to accompany the atherosclerosis study.
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"We're getting more and more evidence that diet [when poor] can play a key role in chronic disease development, progression and all-cause mortality," she said.
Will the findings -- especially the fact that those who got the top benefit didn't eat perfectly -- inspire people?
"As a nutritionist, you try to be optimistic and hope so," Kris-Etherton said. "But society sometimes makes it difficult. We live in an environment where there are so many food choices that aren't consistent with our [dietary] guidelines."
More information
To learn more about the dietary guidelines, visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Last updated 6/23/2009
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SOURCES: Ashima Kant, Ph.D., professor, nutrition, Queens College of the City University of New York, Flushing, N.Y.; Penny Kris-Etherton, R.D., Ph.D., distinguished professor, nutrition, Penn State University, University Park, Pa.; July 2009 The Journal of Nutrition; July 2009 The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
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