Basic word: eat right, exercise, and you lower your chances of cardiovascular trouble.
All that heart-healthy advice about eating the right foods, exercising and losing weight pay off in real life for both men and women, two new studies show. The reports, both originating at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and published in the July 22/29 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, focused on different aspects of cardiovascular risk in two large groups: the 83,882 women in the second Nurses’ Health Study, and the 20,900 men in the Physicians’ Health Study I. Both arrived at the same conclusion: Do the right things, and you get measurable benefits. – From US News & World Report