Macro partitioning
A healthy diet emphasizing vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, whole grains, and fish, while minimizing processed meats, refined carbohydrates, and sweetened beverages, decreases ASCVD risk factors.
Fill your plate with vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, whole grains, and fish. Try to cut back on processed meats, sugary drinks, and refined carbs like white bread. This pattern helps lower your risk of heart disease without needing to count calories strictly.
A diet emphasizing intake of vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, whole grains, and fish is recommended to decrease ASCVD risk factors... As a part of a healthy diet, it is reasonable to minimize the intake of processed meats, refined carbohydrates, and sweetened beverages to reduce ASCVD risk.
Why this rating
Class I recommendation with Level of Evidence B-R (randomized trials).
Source
2019 ACC/AHA Guideline on the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Clinical Practice Guidelines
Donna K. Arnett et al. · Circulation · 2019
DOI 10.1161/cir.0000000000000677
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