On another newsgroup, one person claimed that Malaysians had high rates of heart attacks even though they at a lot of coconuts. It turned out that this was a recent development, and that most Malaysians had switched over to a diet rich in highly unsaturated fat sources:
"...This region is undergoing unprecedented economic growth, rapid
technological changes, urbanization, and major changes in lifestyle.
The very high CHD death rates in Singapore (the most economically
developed country in the region), which are similar to those of the
United States and Australia, provide a warning that Asia may expect a
surge in CHD..."
Source: Circulation. 1996;94:2671-2673.
© 1996 American Heart Association, Inc.
http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/full/94/11/2671 |
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