Whole-Grain Cereals Might Prevent Heart Failure

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A study has found that those who eat whole-grain cereal seven or more times per week were 28 percent less likely to develop heart failure over the course of the study. Those who ate the cereal two to six times per week were 22 percent less likely to experience heart failure, and those who ate whole-grain cereal just once per week were 14 percent less likely to experience heart failure.

 In a Physicians’ Health Study, of the 10,469 physicians reporting cereal consumption, 8,266 (79 percent) ate whole-grain cereal. Twenty-one percent, or 2,203, reported eating refined cereal.

Among those who reported eating whole grain cereal, 35 percent ate the cereal seven or more times per week, 39 percent reported two to six times per week and 26 percent reported once per week. The research was conducted from 1982 to 2006.

“The significant health benefits of whole-grain cereal are not just for kids, but also for adults,” said Luc Djousse, lead author of the study and assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Aging at Brigham & Women’s Health Hospital and Harvard Medical School. “A whole-grain, high-fiber breakfast may lower blood pressure and cholesterol and prevent heart attacks.”