¶ … Diet and Health case study found in this week's curriculum provides data collection, analysis and results that can assist those interested in maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and does so by comparing two similar diets in an effort to determine if one results in a higher quality of life than does the other, specifically tracking cardiovascular events and other medical maladies.
The study compared the Mediterranean diet to the American Heart Association (AHA) diet. The two diets are both relatively low in fat content and hence both were considered to be advantageous to participants in the study; primarily the study was conducted to determine if one diet showed better results over the other diet when comparing incidences of cardiovascular events such as the number of deaths from heart attack and strokes, as well as non-fatal heart-related events. The study also tracked malignant and non-malignant tumors in the participants over the four-year lifespan of the study.
The relationship of the diet(s) to the health of the participants was enlightening. What the study found was that there was a...
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