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The American Heart Association (AHA) advocates dietary and lifestyle changes for preventing heart disease, stroke, and other cardiovascular conditions, and agree that these changes may be as effective or even better than medications. They came up with seven simple recommendations for lifestyle changes and have set modest goals for getting more Americans to practice them.

Some dietary modifications the AHA recommends include decreasing salt, trans fat, saturated fat, sugar, and cholesterol consumption and increasing the intake and variety of fruits and vegetables. They also recognize a link between prolonged sitting and increased mortality and advocate for daily exercise.

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How Do We Know that Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease?

What would happen if you randomized babies at birth to a lifetime of low cholesterol levels? Nature did it for us! In this video, I introduce the concept of Mendelian randomization.

Should All Children Have their Cholesterol Checked?

The current generation of American kids may be one of the first generations to be less healthy and have shorter lifespans than their parents.

Does Diet Soda Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Regular Soda?

Sugar is no longer considered just empty calories, but an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. So what happens if you switch to artificial sweeteners?

Salt of the Earth: Sodium and Plant-Based Diets

Salt of the Earth: Sodium & Plant-Based Diets

Is a plant-based diet sufficient to reach sodium goals?

How Not to Die from High Blood Pressure

How to prevent and reverse hypertension, the #1 risk factor for death in the world

Eliminating Conflicts of Interest in Medical Research

The medical profession appears more interested in disclosing and “managing” conflicts of interest than prohibiting them.

HOW NOT TO DIE: The Role of Diet in Preventing, Arresting, & Reversing Our Top 15 Killers

In this “best-of” compilation of his last four year-in-review presentations, Dr. Greger explains what we can do about the #1 cause of death and disability: our diet.

Lose Two Pounds in One Sitting: Taking the Mioscenic Route

Our physiology evolved for millions of years eating a plant-based diet. What would happen if researchers tried to recreate our ancestral diet in the lab?

Shaking the Salt Habit

The three things we can do to lower our sodium intake and two tricks for interpreting nutrition facts labeling on processed foods.

The Protein-Combining Myth

The myth that plant proteins are incomplete, necessitating protein combining, was debunked by the scientific nutrition community decades ago.

The Evidence that Salt Raises Blood Pressure

Rather than reformulate their products with less sodium and save lives, food manufacturers have lobbied governments, refused to cooperate, encouraged misinformation campaigns, and tried to discredit the evidence.

Everything in Moderation? Even Heart Disease?

Health authorities appear to have taken the patronizing view that the public can’t handle the truth and would rather the science be watered down.

Referencing The American Heart Association