Hold the steak; go with the salmon, and lower the risk of heart disease by 24 percent. Not enough? Then take a pass on the salmon and go with a serving of nuts, which will drop your risk of heart disease 30 percent (from the read meat level of risk). So says a study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health, which looked at data on 84,136 women, aged 30 to 55, who took part in the Nurses’ Health
Study over 26 years, from 1980 to 2006. HealthDay reports that the researchers found that women who ate the highest amount of red meat were at the highest
risk for heart disease, and that, compared to one serving a day of red meat, women who ate one
serving a day of other protein-rich foods had a:
- 30 percent lower risk of heart disease if they ate one serving of
nuts. - 24 percent lower risk of heart disease if they ate one serving of
fish. - 19 percent lower risk of heart disease if they ate one serving of
poultry. - 13 percent lower risk of heart disease if they ate one serving of
low-fat dairy.