Heart health guidance shifts focus from individual nutrients to overall diet quality
A healthy, balanced dietary pattern, rather than one focused on individual nutrients or foods, is key to maintaining heart health, according to a scientific statement issued by the American College of Cardiology and published in JACC. Diets should include minimally processed plant-based foods and healthy fats and proteins while limiting foods high in refined starches, added sugars, sodium or…
The American College of Cardiology's scientific statement emphasizes the importance of overall diet quality over individual nutrients for maintaining heart health. Diets should include minimally processed plant-based foods, healthy fats and proteins, while limiting foods high in refined starches, added sugars, sodium or unhealthy fats, as well as highly processed foods.
The focus is on a holistic, food- and pattern-based approach that reflects advances in understanding the relationship between diet and cardiometabolic health.
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