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Diet in Heart disease

Heart diseases predominantly affect people of working age (30-64 years) in developing countries. Death and disability due to heart disease, in middle age group, has major social and economic consequences. The prevalence of heart diseases has doubled in both rural and urban Indians during the last twenty years. Its prevalence in urban India is now four times than in the U.S. although both these countries had identical prevalence 30 years ago. The decline in heart diseases in US and other countries has been attributed to changes in life styles and related risk factors (e.g., diet and diet-dependent serum cholesterol, cigarette use and exercise habits) plus better control of blood pressure. Diets in developing countries are changing as incomes rise. The share of staples, such as cereals, roots and tubers, is declining; while that of meat, dairy products and oil crops is rising.

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