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Cardiovascular Health Benefits of Specific Vegetable Types: A Narrative Review

Adequate vegetable consumption is one of the cornerstones of a healthy diet. The recommendation to increase vegetable intake is part of most dietary guidelines. Despite widespread and long-running public health messages to increase vegetable intake, similar to other countries worldwide, less than 1...

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Autores principales: Blekkenhorst, Lauren C., Sim, Marc, Bondonno, Catherine P., Bondonno, Nicola P., Ward, Natalie C., Prince, Richard L., Devine, Amanda, Lewis, Joshua R., Hodgson, Jonathan M.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5986475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29751617
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10050595
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author Blekkenhorst, Lauren C.
Sim, Marc
Bondonno, Catherine P.
Bondonno, Nicola P.
Ward, Natalie C.
Prince, Richard L.
Devine, Amanda
Lewis, Joshua R.
Hodgson, Jonathan M.
author_facet Blekkenhorst, Lauren C.
Sim, Marc
Bondonno, Catherine P.
Bondonno, Nicola P.
Ward, Natalie C.
Prince, Richard L.
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description Adequate vegetable consumption is one of the cornerstones of a healthy diet. The recommendation to increase vegetable intake is part of most dietary guidelines. Despite widespread and long-running public health messages to increase vegetable intake, similar to other countries worldwide, less than 1 in 10 adult Australians manage to meet target advice. Dietary guidelines are predominantly based on studies linking diets high in vegetables with lower risk of chronic diseases. Identifying vegetables with the strongest health benefits and incorporating these into dietary recommendations may enhance public health initiatives around vegetable intake. These enhanced public health initiatives would be targeted at reducing the risk of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Specific vegetable types contain high levels of particular nutrients and phytochemicals linked with cardiovascular health benefits. However, it is not clear if increasing intake of these specific vegetable types will result in larger benefits on risk of chronic diseases. This review presents an overview of the evidence for the relationships of specific types of vegetables, including leafy green, cruciferous, allium, yellow-orange-red and legumes, with subclinical and clinical CVD outcomes in observational epidemiological studies.
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spelling pubmed-59864752018-06-05 Cardiovascular Health Benefits of Specific Vegetable Types: A Narrative Review Blekkenhorst, Lauren C. Sim, Marc Bondonno, Catherine P. Bondonno, Nicola P. Ward, Natalie C. Prince, Richard L. Devine, Amanda Lewis, Joshua R. Hodgson, Jonathan M. Nutrients Review Adequate vegetable consumption is one of the cornerstones of a healthy diet. The recommendation to increase vegetable intake is part of most dietary guidelines. Despite widespread and long-running public health messages to increase vegetable intake, similar to other countries worldwide, less than 1 in 10 adult Australians manage to meet target advice. Dietary guidelines are predominantly based on studies linking diets high in vegetables with lower risk of chronic diseases. Identifying vegetables with the strongest health benefits and incorporating these into dietary recommendations may enhance public health initiatives around vegetable intake. These enhanced public health initiatives would be targeted at reducing the risk of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Specific vegetable types contain high levels of particular nutrients and phytochemicals linked with cardiovascular health benefits. However, it is not clear if increasing intake of these specific vegetable types will result in larger benefits on risk of chronic diseases. This review presents an overview of the evidence for the relationships of specific types of vegetables, including leafy green, cruciferous, allium, yellow-orange-red and legumes, with subclinical and clinical CVD outcomes in observational epidemiological studies. MDPI 2018-05-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5986475/ /pubmed/29751617 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu10050595 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Hodgson, Jonathan M.
Cardiovascular Health Benefits of Specific Vegetable Types: A Narrative Review
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