How to prevent heart disease, according to science

ZOE Science & Nutrition

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Nutrition, Science, Health & Fitness, Education

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Heart disease is among the top five causes of death globally, and it’s the first in the United States and United Kingdom. In the U.S., it causes 1 in 5 deaths. But what is heart disease, exactly? Can we take steps to avoid it? Prof. Eric Rimm, of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is here to enlighten us. In today’s episode of ZOE Science & Nutrition, Jonathan and Eric explore what we can do to reduce our chances of getting heart disease. If you want to uncover the right foods for your body, head to zoe.com/podcast, and get 10% off your personalized nutrition program. Follow ZOE on Instagram. Timecodes: 00:15 - Intro 01:07 - Quick fire questions 02:10 - Biggest myth about Heart Disease 03:2 6 - What is Heart Disease? 08:03 - What is a stroke? 10:29 - What are the differences in Heart Disease symptoms between men and women? 12:51 - Did you know that… 14:24 - The multi-decade diet study 21:24 - The 4 ways to lower chances Heart Disease 28:16 - Weight and Heart Disease 32:09 - What can you do to reduce Heart Disease risk? 34:30 - Exercise and Heart Disease risk 37:11 - Body Weight and Heart Disease risk 38:01 - Diet and Heart Disease risk 41:06 - Sleep and Heart Disease risk 46:18 - What is the cutting edge research in Heart Disease? 49:35 - Summary 53:18 - Conclusion Mentioned in today’s episode: Optimal dietary patterns for prevention of chronic disease from Nature Medicine Frequency, type, and volume of leisure-time physical activity and risk of coronary heart disease in young women from Circulation Diet, lifestyle, biomarkers, genetic factors, and risk of cardiovascular disease in the Nurses’ Health Studies from the American Journal of Public Health Download our FREE guide — Top 10 Tips to Live Healthier: https://zoe.com/freeguide Is there a nutrition topic you’d like us to explore? Email us at podcast@joinzoe.com and we’ll do our best to cover it. Episode transcripts are available here.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Zoe, science and nutrition, where world-leading scientists explain how their research can improve your health. Today we learn about heart disease and how to prevent it. In the US, one in every five
0:21.4	deaths is caused by heart disease.
0:23.0	How likely you are to develop it depends on a lot of things.
0:27.0	Some of these, like your genes, you can't do anything about.
0:30.0	But many other risk factors are under your control.
0:34.0	I'm excited to have Eric Rim on the show to tell us more.
0:41.0	Eric is a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
0:44.8	He's also one of the world's top 100 most cited scientists. He conducts huge studies
0:50.6	to understand the impact of food and lifestyle on your risk of chronic conditions like heart disease.
1:00.0	Eric, thank you very much for joining me today.
1:02.0	Thanks for having me, Jonathan.
1:03.0	Great to see you.
1:04.0	It's a real pleasure and fun to be able to do this in person in Boston.
1:07.0	So we have a tradition here, which we always start with a round of quickfire questions. The rules are that you can say yes or no or if you absolutely have to you can give us a one sentence answer.
1:20.0	This is very hard for professors, but they do normally manage it.
1:24.1	Are you willing to give it a go?
1:25.1	Yes.
1:26.1	Fantastic.
1:27.1	Well, that's a good start.
1:28.1	Okay.
1:30.1	If I don't sleep enough, does this increase my risk of heart disease?
1:35.0	Yes.
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