title: Diet and heart: a postscript.
abstract: During 1956-66, 337 healthy middle-aged men in London and south-east England participated in a seven-day individual weighed dietary survey. By the end of 1976, 45 of them had developed clinical coronary heart disease (CHD) which showed two main relationships with diet. Men with a high energy intake had a lower rate of disease than the rest, and, independently of this, so did men with a high intake of dietary fibre from cereals. Energy intake reflects physical activity, but the advantage of a diet high in cereal fibre cannot be explained; there was no evidence that the disease was associated with consumption of refined carbohydrates. Fewer cases of CHD developed among men with a relatively high ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fatty acids in their diet, but the difference was not statistically significant.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000453:epidemiology*; D004032:Diet / Q000009:adverse effects; D004034:Diet Surveys; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000009:adverse effects; D004043:Dietary Fiber; D002523:Edible Grain; D002149:Energy Intake; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats; D004043:Dietary Fiber