Scientists from University of Indiana in Bloomington (Minnesota, the USA), having investigated 276 twins of a male, have found out that the Mediterranean diet is capable to reduce risk of development of diseases of heart even in the presence of genetic predisposition.
The Mediterranean style of a food is based on the use of fish, vegetables, fruit, cereals, sour-milk products, low-fat meat, olive oil and an alcohol small amount. Till now was considered that such diet is extremely useful to health as reduces in an organism level of “bad” cholesterol.
Results of work of the American experts have shown that at the men eating on-sredizemnomorski, variability of a warm rhythm (heart rate variability, HRV) above, than at adhering to the western style of a food. Variability of a warm rhythm represents change in time intervals between two consecutive reductions of heart. The it is less HRV, the above risk of occurrence of a coronary (ischemic) heart trouble and sudden death.
It is curious that HRV depends on genes only partially, and it means that the Mediterranean diet can provide protection against warm illnesses having similar diseases in the family anamnesis.
But not all so is unequivocal. Employees of University of Rochester in New York assert that the Mediterranean diet is useful not all. As they said, some patients, suffering heart attacks, are carriers of special genetic mutations; in their blood the considerable quantity high density (“good” cholesterol) which destroys unhealthy transfats in the eaten food contains. Besides, at them it is a lot of fiber CRP causing inflammatory processes in an organism. Because of a unique set of genes high density it is transformed to “bad” cholesterol, therefore at such patients the Mediterranean diet can raise risks of occurrence still bigger heart troubles.
