Lyon Diet Heart Study

Source from: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4655 (American Heart Association)

The reason behind this study is to see the effectiveness of Mediterranean diets with people who had a heart attack before. The result of the study was that by following the Mediterranean diet, it can help decrease the chances of having another heart attack. Since there isn’t a specific kind of Mediterranean diet, the diet was only described with certain factors. Which consists of, a lot of fruits, vegetables, bread, cereal, potatoes, beans, nuts, olive oil, and seeds; low amounts of dairy products, fish, poultry, red meat, eggs, and wine. The Mediterranean diet for the Lyon diet heart study was slightly different; it’s higher in alpha-linolenic acid (a type of polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acid). It also includes more bread, root and green vegetables, fish, and fruits (must eat everyday); less beef, lamb, and pork (replaced poultry). Butter and cream was also replaced with margarine with high alpha-linolenic acid. This diet had an average of 30 percent of calories from fat, 8 percent from saturated fat, 13 percent from monounsaturated fat, 5 percent from polyunsaturated fat and 203 mg/day of cholesterol.