Cutting just 300 calories from your daily diet could significantly benefit your cardiovascular health, even if you're already at a healthy weight, according to a new study
Cutting just 300 calories from your daily diet could significantly benefit your cardiovascular health, even if you're already at a healthy weight, according to a new study.
Such caloric restriction can be achieved through techniques such as intermittent fasting, or by skipping that slice of cheesecake for dessert.Ultraprocessed foods are easy, cheap and could be killing you During the course of two years, participants in the study who were on a calorie restriction diet lowered their blood pressure and levels of bad cholesterol, and saw a 24% drop in concentrations of triglycerides, a type of fat in the blood.
"Because individual food choices are shaped by the food environment, the long-term sustainability of calorie restriction and its benefits on bodyweight can be easily undermined," Hu wrote in the editorial."Therefore, improving the food environment by making healthy food choices more accessible, affordable, and the norm while reducing the accessibility of ultra-processed and highly palatable foods is essential to supporting healthy food choices," he wrote.
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