2011 Guidelines For The Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Women

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Specific Dietary Intake Recommendations for Women

Nutrient	Serving	Serving Size
Fruits and vegetables	≥ 4.5 cups/d	1 cup raw leafy vegetable, 1/2 cup cut-up raw or cooked vegetable, 1/2 cup vegetable juice; 1 medium fruit, 1/4 cup dried fruit, 1/2 cup fresh, frozen, or canned fruit, 1/2 cup fruit juice
Fish	2/wk	3.5 oz, cooked (preferably oily types of fish)
Fiber	30 g/d (1.1 g/10 g carbohydrate)	Bran cereal, berries, avocado, etc.
Whole grains	3/d	1 slice bread, 1 oz dry cereal, 1/2 cup cooked rice, pasta, or cereal (all whole-grain products)
Sugar	≤ 5/wk (≤ 450 kcal/wk from sugar-sweetened beverages)	1 tablespoon sugar, 1 tablespoon jelly or jam, 1/2 cup sorbet, 1 cup lemonade
Nuts, legumes, and seeds	≥ 4/wk	1/3 cup or 1 1/2 oz nuts (avoid macadamia nuts and salted nuts), 2 tablespoons peanut butter, 2 tablespoon or 1/2 oz seeds, 1/2 cup cooked legumes (dry beans and peas)
Saturated fat	< 7%/total energy intake	Found in fried foods, fat on meat or chicken skin, packaged desserts, butter, cheese, sour cream, etc
Cholesterol	< 150 mg/d	Found in animal meats, organ meats, eggs, etc
Alcohol	≤ 1/d	4 oz wine, 12 oz beer, 1.5 oz of 80-proof spirits, or 1 oz of 100-proof spirits
Sodium	< 1500 mg/d
Trans-fatty acids	0	0

Note: The recommended serving amounts are based on a 2000-kcal diet, and recommendations vary according to individual preference and needs.
Note for Vitamin D: It is expected that ongoing research regarding the role of vitamin D supplementation in the prevention of cardiovascular disease will shed further light on this issue for future versions of this guideline.

By Poonam Vaswani
Senior Dietitian, Nutritionvista.com

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24 January, 2012 | Gayatri | Reply

hi,
i want to know is non-veg is necessary for health? i am 23yrs old ,i married before 1yr.i have irregular periods and i don't want to eat non-veg is it good for my health?plz reply me.

25 January, 2012 | Poonam Vaswani | Reply

Hello Gayatri,
Eating non vegetarian foods is a matter of personal choice. As long as your diet is balanced and there are no nutrient deficiencies it is not essential to eat non vegetarian foods. Please also consult a gynaecologist who will diagnose the cause of your irregular periods and advise you accordingly.

30 August, 2011 | Pratima | Reply

A study was conducted to find out the association between snoring and incidence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in women. Around 71,779 female nurses were subjects of the 8 yr study -from their 40th -65th year of age and without a history of either CVD or cancer. The data collected suggested that snoring is associated with a modest but significantly increased risk of CVD in women, independent of age, smoking, BMI and other cardiovascular risk factors.
Further studies are required understand the mechanism but meanwhile snoring can help clinicians identify individuals at higher risk for CVD.

03 August, 2011 | Pratima | Reply

The reports of the Women’s Health Initiative and the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS), indicated that combination hormone therapy was associated with adverse CVD effects. This necessitates a need to critically review and document strategies to prevent CVD in women on any hormone replacements.

18 March, 2011 | Vijayalakshmi Iyengar | Reply

Many women do not pay attention to dental hygiene one of the causes for CVD. According to Dr Timothy Brown, assistant adjunct professor of health policy and management at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health there is sufficient evidence to show that `General dental care leads to fewer heart attacks, strokes, and other adverse cardiovascular outcomes in a causal way".
Small precautions, large rewards and better quality of life.
Vijayalakshmi Iyengar
Sr Dietitian, NutritionVista.com

02 March, 2011 | Vijayalakshmi Iyengar | Reply

At last the Doctors of major hospitals in India have come out saying that we should quickly come out with our own guidelines, and stricter ones at that, as what is suggested by USDA does not suit the Indian community as a large percentage of Indians are at risk of a lot more `Life style diseases' including CVD and Diabetes.

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