Lecture 36: Diet and Cardiovascular Disease: Epidemiological Evidence and Public Health Perspectives
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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a dominant global public health challenge, accounting for approximately 19 million deaths annually and representing nearly one-third of all mortality worldwide. While traditional epidemiological theories once linked these diseases primarily to affluence in Western nations, current data reveals that over 75% of CVD deaths now occur in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). This shift is driven by rapid urbanization, the westernization of food networks characterized by high consumption of processed foods like burgers and sausages, and a transition from infectious diseases to chronic degenerative conditions. The burden is particularly acute in South Asia, where genetic factors such as the "thrifty genotype" combined with modern environmental shifts lead to severe metabolic issues at lower body mass indices. Consequently, cardiovascular events often strike individuals in their prime working years, significantly reducing life expectancy and causing a devastating loss of economic productivity in regions like India.
The evolution of scientific understanding regarding diet and heart health has moved from a reductionist focus on isolated nutrients to a holistic appreciation of whole dietary patterns. Early studies, such as the Seven Countries Study, initially suggested that saturated fat intake directly caused coronary disease, but later analysis revealed methodological flaws like ecological fallacy and uncontrolled confounding factors such as smoking and pollution. A critical historical error occurred when public health guidelines mandated low-fat diets without specifying what should replace the removed fats; this led consumers to substitute saturated fats with refined carbohydrates and sugars, inadvertently fueling epidemics of obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes. Modern nutritional epidemiology now recognizes that the quality of the food matrix matters far more than the aggregate percentage of macronutrients, emphasizing that humans consume complex meals rather than isolated nutrients.
Current evidence strongly supports shifting away from single-nutrient reductionism toward whole-food dietary patterns like the Mediterranean and DASH diets, which prioritize unsaturated fats, fiber, fruits, vegetables, and legumes. The consensus is clear that eliminating industrial trans fats is a top priority, while reducing saturated fat intake only lowers cardiovascular risk if those calories are replaced with monounsaturated or polyunsaturated fats rather than refined starches or sugars. Public health strategies must focus on upstream structural interventions, such as taxing sugar-sweetened beverages and enforcing warning labels, which offer higher economic returns and broader population benefits compared to individual behavioral counseling. Ultimately, preventing cardiovascular disease requires a paradigm shift toward population-wide dietary changes that address the complex interplay of food sources, cultural habits, and metabolic health to effectively reduce the global burden of this leading cause of death.
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Hello and welcome dear learners to the
NPL course on nutritional epidemology a
way towards a healthy life. In the
module 4 diet, nutrients, dietary
patterns and disease epidemology. For
the chapter 36, we will be talking about
diet and cardiovascular disease. The
epidemological evidence and public
health perspectives. Here in this
chapter, we will be talking about
cardiovascular disease as a public
health challenge, diet as a modifiable
risk factor, evolution of scientific
evidence and from nutrients to dietary
patterns, dietary fats and
cardiovascular risk, current evidence
and public health recommendations.
So here as a cardiovascular disease is
the public health challenge. You can
understand that how cardiovascular
disease is a leading driver for
mortality and as a delies. So
cardiovascular disease account for 7.9
to 19.1 million globally. So the total
deaths are 56 to 58 million per year. So
all the other causes are coming to 68%.
So all the other causes like 38.9
million that is contributing to 68% are
coming for other diseases. With respect
to that the 20 million burden of whole
diseases this is taken by cardiovascular
disease. So Orburn's classical
epidemological transition theory in 1971
displays that the demographic and
epidemological transitions which comes
with classical western Europe transition
from century scale which is era of
recent dependent. So hyper accelerated
LMCI and transitions of low middle inome
countries from low to high is
accelerated which is like a shifting
from era of infectious disease and a
transition and the feminine to the era
of degenerative man-made chronic
diseases. what is the chronic disease
that is cardiovascular disease. So the
affluence policy and the paradigm ship.
So now GBD data the reality is that over
75% of the global CVD deaths now occur
in LMCI that is low middle- inome
countries. This is the fact and there
was a previous fallacy that lifestyle
excess and aging and all that is an old
assumption that disease was in
affluence. So what is the driving
factors in LMCI that is low middle-
inome country is like rapid
westernization of global food networks
where eating of burgers, pizza, breads
and sausages, beverages is increasing
which is giving rise to cardiovascular
diseases. A swift of urbanization which
is changing the lifestyle of individuals
moving from natural to unnatural
situations. Also systematic gaps in
early clinical screening is now which is
making more the situations complex.
Now moving to cardiovascular disease as
a public health challenge. The granular
mortality stratification and the twin
engine of global cardiovascular disease
mortality. Ishkemic heart disease
accounts for 9.1 to 9.4 million deaths
in a year. The cardiovascular pathology
mortality is totally 16 million per
annually. So you can understand the
cardiovascular stroke is 6.6 to 6.9
million deaths per year. So the
incidence of ishkeimic stroke the
ishkeimic stroke is about 6.6 to 6.9
million per year. Hemoric stroke hemoric
stroke accounts for hemorogic strokes
which is giving 6.6 to 6.9 millions
death per year. So what is a
manifestation of acute mioardial
infraction which is giving you acute
mioardial infection in damage of
infraction and chronic iskeemic heart
disease failure. Chronic iskeemic
failure accounts for 6.5 6.6 6 to 6.9
million deaths and the chron the chronic
mioardial inffection in
the chronic failure actually for
accounts for chronic uh heart failure.
So global mortality burden we can see
over here that it highlights like the
countries which are stated in blue are
coming with a high burden and the high
stroke which are stated into red. So you
can understand the stroke driver in
specific regions with subsaharan and
even east Asia actually the stroke
eclipse that is ishkeemic heart diseases
and the critical driver uncontrolled uh
systemic hypertension that is 160 to 100
where you may find the elevated blood
pressure increasing the stroke risk. So
here you can understand the granular
mortality stratification across the
globe. Now we will talk about the burden
in India. South Asian cardiovascular
vulnerability. The Indian subcontinent
become the global epicenter of unique
hyperaggressive and premature
manifestation of coronary artery
disease. The Indian population
experiences a distinct epidemological
paradox where severe multi- vessel
coronary diseases occurring at much
lower metabolic threshold than the
observed in the western position. So it
is understood that the genetic
architecture that is that was uh thrifty
gin and ancient survival which is
rapidly towards an environmental shift
is giving through urbanization and food
industrialization. So what is that is
coming as a trouble to Indian Asian
phenotype. So there is a higher visceral
abdominal ediposity that is called as
high waist to hip ratio which is giving
us abdominal obesity. Then it is found
that profound insulin resistance that is
hyperinsulinemia.
Again there is a condition called as
aogenic dysipidemia that is high TG low
HDL and small dense LDL. So there are
early onsets which can be seen that is
called as atherosclerosis that the event
of cardiovascular events start five to
10 years early to the main disase
condition.
Now we will try to understand the
epidemological domination. the critical
burden of cardiovascular disease in
India the epidemological shift and
unique risk to the union of Asian Indian
phenotype. So here you can understand
the non-communicable disease uh
decisively overtake infectious disease
in India and we have seen the transition
of uh Indian disease condition
specifically taking more shift towards
non-communicable disease and it's a
double burden of disease that India is
facing the age standardized CBD
mortality risk is also increasing in
India compared to the global where the
average of global is 211 India it
accounts for 27 72 cardiovascular
disease alone accounts for 27% to 28% of
the total mortality. So what we can say
is that the crisis of premature
mortality in cardiovascular disease
compared uh to the western population in
Asia it is increasing at high. So it
comes to the age starting from 40 and
has a major to 55. So age scale is also
being reduced compared to the western
population that where it is closer to 60
65 to 70 where versus in India it is 50
55 to 60 the under 70 metric devastating
structural vacuum where the CBD debt in
India as a distribution here you can
understand that under 70 it is like over
50% of people are getting affected among
the cardiovascular disease suffering
people whereas uh it is more than in the
global where it is being found 25%. So
the peak economic, social and parental
years are being affected by
cardiovascular disease. Now let us
understand more in deep deconstructing
the Asian Indian phenotype a unique
metabolic composition. Beyond
centralized BMI cut offs the normal it
is like 23 and waist to hip ratio. The
visceral adiposity. So normal BMI yet
profound visceral fat due to
evolutionary mechanism that with 350
genotype to survive the historic mas the
lipoprotein triad where the ethogenic
dysipidemia the triglycerides and HDLC
where you may find that small dense LDL
very small to large luffy that highly uh
you can say easily iodizing oxidizing
the bounce of accelerating the
etherosclerosis. So you can understand
how the risk of uh CVD is increasing in
Indian population. The profound insulin
resistance which is being stated that
hippatic insulin resistance which is
coming to state that next level the
chronic hyperinsulinemia and constant
free fatty and release. So the visceral
fat adiposity is profound actually to
see that there is an insulin resistance.
So elevated baseline risk for early
onset of type 2 diabetes is one which is
very much related to the visceral
edyposity.
Now we will try to understand the
socioeconomic and healthcare system
consequences. What are those? The CVD
financial stock in LMCI setting. So the
out of pocket expenditure that OOP
crisis India total health expenditure 50
to 60% is spended in the cardiovascular
disease. So catastrophic health
expenditure from household from shift is
more towards a single episode of CVD
hospitalized and you will getting the
frequently exceeds one as a criteria. So
the poverty trait over here is like you
may have a low income families where
sell agriculture assets they have all
those liquidifying their savings and
high interest informal death and the CBD
hospitalization pushes the family to 25%
of the lowincome families in absolute
poverty within one year. the
catastrophic health expenditure of
household for non-food capacity to pay
where the frequency exceeds uh the
cardiovascular criteria actually to be
spending with respect to a single
episode of CVD which is putting more
burden compared to the other disease
condition.
Now we'll try to understand the
productive age vacuum. The population
pyramid that you can see over here
strikes to say that the disease strikes
South Asians in prime working years
compared to the higher age in other
people in the global scenario. The
disappearing where you can see that how
it is affecting because of the
lifestyle. Quantifying the loss, if you
see the GDP impacts uh simulation from
2012 to 2030, India will lose billions
in economic output due to premature risk
of cardiovascular disease and stroke and
the mortality and the disability that is
being caused by the disease. India will
lose billions in economic output due to
premature IHD and stroke mortality and
disability. What are the key drivers
over here? Absentism and presentism. So
absentee chronically uh we can say in UK
where presentism reduce functional
capacity significantly reduce labor
output and here the years of life loss
that is YL there you may find that young
skilled people compared to unskilled
worker. So the permanent detention of
labor from the market long before the uh
retirement age limits nation's
demographic dividend.
The health care system strain the
chronic disease inundation. So you can
understand that uh the health system
mismatch is being seen that the historic
public health model of infectious and
maternal focus which is always there on
the seasonal on seasonal shift of
disease condition and most of all on MCH
where you have major disease threat with
infectious diseases vector bond diseases
maternal and child health illnesses and
vaccine campaign is something which is
an episodic you can come up with the
acute care which is what the public
health system was known for. Now there
is a critical mismatch of current
disease reality which is more focusing
towards the chronic uh cardiovascular
diseases high blood pressure, heart
failure and even a continuous
multidisciplinary care which is to be
offered with decades of management which
is tracking from rehabilitation. But the
age wise it is coming from 20 to 40
where there is a medication monitoring
and complications which is being seen
which is mismatch with the standard
public health intervention model. What
is the opportunity cost of care? The
opportunity cost of care currently what
we it is being demonstrated which is
more for maternal health, infant
nutrition and infectious disease is now
being shifted towards a vital strategic
conclusion where sustaining healthcare
delivery requires a shifting resources
needs to be more towards drug dis which
are now being evolving. The inundation
of tertiary care, the complex
multi-disiplinary infrastructure which
is crowded, which is on a waiting list
to avail the facilities and a severe
shortages in the bed which require
upskilling of infrastructure in public
health and even healthcare systems which
may be a private or corporate. The rural
deficits of facilities are putting and
pushing the people into poverty. The
multi- decadinal fiscal drain where you
may find that weeks of cure or death was
more affecting because of acute
infections which was from week one to
week two where you may find that the
daily multi-drug resistance infections
and regular diagnostic testing and
frequent rehospization is pushing
actually the population towards out of
pocket expenditure. Now in addition from
age 20 to 40 years of management or
which takes the NCD as a major stroke
burden from stroke and heart failure
which is taking more timeline and more a
drain to the out of pocket expenditure.
Now we will talk about diet as a
modifiable risk factor. How does diet
modifiable risk factor coming into
public health strategy? We will see the
prevention spectrum in public health
with respect to diet where you can
understand the primordial prevention,
primary prevention and secondary
prevention where in the targets of the
policy the target is more of an
environment. The characteristics are you
should prevent emerging factors and you
should concentrate on populationwide
policies where versus in the primary
prevention it is like preventing the
image emerging factors the control
factors and you should try to target on
individual care and the secondary level
prevention is more going towards
institution where the risk factors
particularly disease condition and you
should try to focus more on treating the
acute events especially there needs to
have more focus on high cost at the
tertiary level. So the cumulative
vascular damage reduced over the year
from highest profile to optimal
metabolic profile which is a primordial
shift. Now the rise of population paradm
and the strategy comparison. If you do
talk about the high-risisk clinical
strategy that is people who are screened
and treated which is called as
prescription stains and the population
dietary strategies that is people making
simple switches example where you have a
shift and switch of salt. So why the
reason is like when in the first
condition the high risk clinical
strategy the high cost per person where
the massive moderately at a risk burden
where the events prescribing status of
of LDL and you may come across that if
they have a screening at a proper level
that can reduce that disease risk
condition where in the population
dietary strategy if you are trying to
make a model actually you should try to
make a switch off actually which is
giving like a small individual who
change their massive drop in populations
wide clinical events. The shift from the
total salt intake downwards towards
protecting them modern risk in majority
condition. What is now coming as
economic evaluation that is health
economic and policy utility. How the
structural versus behavioral pattern
where the downstream the behavioral
strategy which is coming from clinical
counseling low compliance and higher
implementation cost towards a lower
return. So you may understand that the
behavioral int interventions which are
more giving you more higher returns and
where if you are not doing it it is
going for a lower returns. So the
upstream structural interventions are
more coming from industrial brand bands
and warning labels SSB tax. So minimum
fiscal expenditure and massive return
which is something which is called as a
gain where versus when you try to
upstream the interventions which are
highly cost effective and often
costsaving which will give more benefit
and balancing the economic burden. Now
we can understand the key dietary
determinants of CVD. What the CVD cost
us to give us more focus to understand
through the lens of diet where the
suboptimal diet the metabolic
derangement and atherosclerosis.
So the what are the harmful excesses and
productive deficits. So the harmful
excesses are like high sodium intake,
industrial produced trans fatty acids,
ultrarocessed foods, refined
carbohydrates and sugar sweetened
beverages. So it is being found that
most of the harmful excesses are being
consumed in urban population and so
where we can link that excess of
consumption leads to more risk of CBD in
urban population versus to rural. The
protective deficits we will try to
understand that insufficient
consumpionion of whole grains which is
giving the individual the
unprotectiveness towards if they are not
consuming it where versus the fruits and
veggies and nuts seeds and marine
omega-3 fatty acids which are found to
be more protective towards protecting
from the athosclarosin cardiovascular
disease burden. Now we'll understand the
biological and metabolic pathway. the
ethogenic lipoprotein remodeling the
saturated fatty acids downregulated
hippatic LDL receptor which is an
expression which is increasing the
circulating LDL and you can understand
that the driver for ethogenesis is the
absolute number of apo particles which
are trapped into the subendothelial
space undergoing oxidation and starting
uh taking stricts. So okay you can get
it that how a hemodynamic stress which
is creating more stress and giving high
rise into the blood pressure. Now we
will understand the dietary exposures
where you can understand the fatty fat
quality the sodium the fiber and free
sugars. So all these are more
functionally affecting actually to
increases the uh instigation or even
stimulating the disease condition to go
more with systemic inflammation while
developing the insulin resistance and
visceral radiposity and atherosclerosis
and CVD pathogenesis. So this way you
can understand how a diet with respect
to metabolic derangement which is being
depicted over here and how it leads to
atherosclerosis cardiovascular disease.
Now we'll understand the evolution of
scientific evidence. So here there are
some dates which are stated over here.
As you can see 1950s to 1970 is the one
episode. The second episode is 1980 to
1990s and the third episode is from 2000
towards the present. Now what is the
shift over here? The first of 1950s to
1970 is like the diet hard hypothesis
where the key ecological studies evolved
and the focus was more on serum
cholesterol where the flaw was
confounding data and here you can
understand that how the shift was taking
over here. Then later in 1980s to 1990
the reductionist low-fat trap was being
seen where the reductionist low trap fat
was more focusing on focus of total fat
reduction which was to be seen as
unintended sugar swap. So the result was
metabolic syndrome surges actually which
were giving more rise because of the
shift. Now the dietary risk matrix which
is the pattern currently now where we
can say the whole food synergies are
coming where the focus is more on the
matrix over isolated macronutrients. So
that is there that the evolution of dash
diet and meditarian diet is now being
seen as a dietary mis mix in the current
days actually. Now we can understand
what is the mid 20th century the diet
heart hypothesis.
So as you know that following the world
war second the western nations
experienced an unprecedented epid
epidemic of premature iskeemic disease
ishkeemic heart disease among the
middle-aged men. So this sudden rise in
mortality forced researcher to look
beyond infectious pathology and explore
upstream environmental occupational and
dietary drivers.
But the Anel Keys and the seven country
studies reflects something very
different. The core hypothesis uh that
Dr. Anel Keys hypothesized that
populationwide consumption of saturated
fatty acids elevated the serum
cholesterol level which in turn
facilitated the development of coronary
arthrogenosis.
So what are the findings of this study?
The seven country studies was the first
large-scale study which tracked the
dietary intake and cardiovascular health
across structurally diverse nation. The
nations included were Japan, Greece,
Yugoslavia, Italy, Netherlands and US
and Finland. So the findings of these
seven nation studies were like they the
key demonstrated issues were a strong
correlation between the population with
low saturated fat intake.
Example, the traditional cohorts in Crit
Greece and Japan had with low serum
cholesterol profiles and remarkably low
10 years coronary disease mortality
rates. Conversely, nations with high
saturated fat intake, example Finland
and US experience severe cardiovascular
disease condition. So this was to be
stated that how the evolution took when
the specific study pointed towards the
country's def differentiation towards
the disease condition. Now what are the
methodological limitations and
ecological fallacy
for both public health students? This
era serves as a classical lesson in
study design limitation.
What we do as a wrong is it is not that
how we need to correct it. The
ecological fallacy comes that these
early studies evaluated country level
aggregate data rather than an individual
level exposures. So the finding a
correlation between the nation's average
fat sales and its average heart disease
rate does not mean every individual
consuming fat will develop a heart
disease. So it's like a ecological
fallacy that you need to understand over
here. Now what is an uncontrolled
confounding?
aggregate data could not statistically
control for critical non-dietary
cardiovascular risk factors that were
changing during the post second world
war. Well, you have a boom of increasing
high smoking rates shifting from
physical level activity to sedentary
lifestyle and industrial pollution and
socioeconomic disparities which were
contributing actually towards this
development of dietary uh related
cardiovascular risk conditions. Now in
the late 20s what happened the
reductionist single nutrient era which
was more towards a low fat trap. So how
did uh it make a big change? So the
policy mistransation comes like when it
was in the late '7s to 80s the public
health bodies and the consensus panel
attempted to simplify the complex
epidemological data and the data was
more given to and more actionable
guidelines toward the general public.
The result was giving a recommendation
that to reduce total dietary fat into a
less than 30% of your total daily
calories. But what happened is a result
being depicted now over here. The
unintended substitution effect made
something which was very drastically and
to your uh surprise the policy failed to
anticipate how consumer psychology and
the industrial food chemistry would
respond to the generic low-fat mandate.
How did the industry respond? The
industry response is like to maintain
product palatability when fat was
removed. The food industry re-engineered
commercial product by adding large
amount of refined starches, high
fructose corn syrup and free sugar. So
you can understand how uh difficult uh
it has put a burden to an individual.
Then there was a carbohydrate swap.
Public health messaging inadvertly
encourage consumer to replace energy
dense fat with a highly processed
carbohydrate. So products were marked as
hardy but they were fat-free completely
ignoring their high sugar content and
elevated glycemic load. So it was
something which was a major burden
actually which was coming with a
different name. Now we can understand
the epidemological counter effect. This
single nutrient approach did not slow
the cardiovascular disease epidemic.
Instead it altered the population
metabolism.
How it is we will try to understand it.
The metabolic inversion where the diet
high in refined carbohided decreased
protective HDL cholesterol increase
small dense uh ethogenic LDL particles
and raised circulatory triglycerides.
The obesity surge instead of preventing
chronic diseases the lower fat era
coincided with global surge in obesity
insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes
malitis. This outcome proved a key
public health issue. The issue was the
quality and the matrix of macronutrients
matter far more than the total aggregate
percentage which was more to be seen as
a lesson. Now we'll try to understand
the modern paradigm shift. The whole
dietary pattern in the food matrix. Now
there is a shifting away from the
reductionism to the modern food matrix.
Now when the modern nutritional
epidemology recognizes that humans eat
complex meals not isolated nutrients
single nutrient evaluations are flooded.
Previously there was a reductionist view
now there is a modern matrix view. Now
what it is being seen as deconstructing
the food matrix and the nutrients health
effect is mediated by physical and
chemical structure where you will find
this coming as a food matrix. The dairy
matrix example is like processed red
meat as a saturated fat where a
fermented dairy products where
unsweetened yogurt and aged cheese which
is coming as a neutral or inverse CVD
association and the dairy components
alter fat metabolism. Now the clinical
and population proof is of dash and
predeemed the dash trial which is giving
a dietary pattern rich in fruits,
vegetable, whole grains and low fatty
dairy. the significant increase in
potassium, magnesium and fiber. The DASH
trial where it is being seen as systemic
BP lowered as effectively as
pharmaceutical monotherapy where the
DASH diet is being more targeted towards
sodium restriction. the pre-mid study
that the prevalence of diet meditarian
which is evaluated to show that a high
cardiovascular risk individuals on a
traditional Mediterranean diet where
unrestricted total fat but rich in extra
virgin olive oil, nuts, fish and legumes
which is like 30% relative risk in
reductionist. The Mediterranean diet is
cons is a composition of low-fat control
diet versus there is a 30% relative risk
in reduction. So definitive proof of
whole food quality drives long-term
vascular health. Now from nutrients to
dietary pattern limitations of
reductionist approach in nutritional
epidemology from the decades that we
have unded that nutritional science
relied on reductionist model. A paradigm
borrowed from infectious disease and def
deficiency epidemology. This model
assumes that a single isolated dietary
component correlates directly and
linearly with the specific health
outcome. While highly effective for
identifying micronutrient deficiencies
for example vitamin C and scurvy
reductionist fails when applied to
multiffactorial chronic non-communicable
disease such as cardiovascular disease.
The example is being practically
demonstrated and can be seen over here
in the figure. Now what is the breakdown
of reductionism methodological
limitations in diet CBD epidemology? The
colon problem the problem of back
substitution varying chemical structures
and overlooking lowd do synergies. So in
the figure one the colonary problem
shows a central figure overwhelmed by
interwoven data stream. The tight
correlation of saturated fat with sodium
and its inverse relationship with fiber
and potassium means that the signal
converge be before entering the
statistical model which is shown in the
funnel model. This statistical overlap
results in a fuzzy output signal and a
large question mark illustrating the
impossibility of isolating a single
factor.
Now what is figure two giving? Figure
two is giving the back substitution or
treat totter balance that is energy
balance. It shows that reducing the
specific macronutrient that is the fat
low creates an immediate void that must
be filled. The graphic visualizes the
global low-fat trap where the calories
are substituted with the larger block of
refined carbohids that is sugar. And the
figure three varying chemical structures
a microscope and a chemical diagrams are
used to emphasize that not all saturated
fats are equal. It contracts two
specific compounds that is great that is
a short chain which supports gut health
against the pleinate that is long chain
which downregulates the LDL receptors.
grouping them under a single broad
metric is shown to mask the essential
biological differences where versus the
figure four that is a low dose synergies
the timeline of 10 years to 40 years
visualizes the cumulative protective
effect of multiple nutrient that is
fiber potassium magnesium omega3 in
increasing artery health. The complexity
contrast with the single large single
major cause icon that is crossed out
illustrating why a reductionist search
for one major culprit will fail when
study chronic decaying long pathology.
Now here you can see the nutrient
interactions and the holistic food
matrix which is now being explored where
you can understand from high isolated
nutrients to natural food matrix and the
code transport mechanism a comparison
where you can understand a paradigm
shift in nutritional impedemology is now
being exemplary uh stated and the
specification scenario which are being
experimented.
A real world eating behavior. A paradigm
shift in public health research where
the core concept of food not isolated
nutrient which is like we need not to uh
consider actually how the food is to be
taken in isolated nutrient but as a
whole as a whole meal actually which is
a rapid absorption and food matrix. The
whole food and the meals actually which
we can be seen in the food matrix. The
culture of combinations and dietary
habits in regional, cultural and soio
economic factors which we have been seen
both benefiting towards taking a limit
to a particular food in isolation. The
limits of dietary recall and the path
forwards which are broadening the
patterns actually as improving the data
reliability and giving more from the
transitional single nutrient recall to a
tracking of the border patterns of
taking more meditarian versus
ultrarocessed food.
Now the dietary patterns as a modern
framework where the a prior methods of
hypothesis driving indexing and now a
posterior methods of datadriven
exploratory pattern which are giving us
that the global public health
application shifting to patterns
capturing the high complex compounding
effects on the modern and providing a
stronger scientific foundation for
cardiovascular prevention strategies.
Here you can understand like how the
patterns are being shifted towards
understanding the scientific evidence
which are more uh in specific for foods
for health counties and in the
statistical modeling to identify the
existing eating eater eats with a
population's data.
Now the dietary fats and cardiovascular
the dietary fats acids are classified by
the chemical structure which directly
dictates the physiological impacts in
the trans fatty acids which are more
towards chemical nature which are
produced by the partial hydrogenation of
vegetable oils converting liquid oils
into solid fats to extend the shelf life
and cardiovascular impact is that the
trans fat are more hazardous dietary
lipids per calorie consumed. The rise of
LDLC and lower highdensity lipoprotein
cholesterol increases the triglycerides
and promote systemic inflammation and
induce uh endothelial dysfunction. What
is the public health consensus that the
total elimination of industrial trans
fats from the global supply food supply
is the primary public health priority.
Now we'll talk about the saturated fatty
acids. The chemical nature of
hydrocarbon change with no doubt bonds.
Major sources include red meat, butter,
lad, palm oil and coconut oil. The
nuanced reality is that SFA generally
increase circulating LDLC by down
reggulating LDL receptors. However, the
impact varies heavily based on the chain
line and food matrix. Here you can
understand how it is with laurens,
mistric and palistic acids and ceric
acid. The substitution rule is that the
cardiovascular effect of reducing
saturated fat depends entirely what is
being replaced. Where you are replacing
SFAs with refined carbohidates and sugar
which yields no reduction in the CVD and
replacing SFA with monossaturated or
polyaturated fat significantly reduces
the CVD risk. The dietary fatty acids
and cardiovascular classification can be
seen over here where the trans fatty
acids and saturated fatty acids which
comes with public health consensus and
the cardiovascular impact where the
saturated fasciated chemical nature
chemical acid res sources and the nuance
reality which is being seen is pointed.
Now the unsaturated fatty acids uh
graphs has been seen where how it gives
you more detail understanding as which
are the sources where versus what are
the major sources the mechanism and even
containing more and double bond the
mechanism and importance which is
highlighting towards this association
and the associated disease effect.
What is the current evidence and public
health recommendation? It is more
pointing towards having areas of concern
to be highlighted particularly for
industrial trans fat elimination. Total
exclusion from all commercial and food
preparation. Emphasis on high quality
plant mattresses. Restriction of refined
cardiovascular and SSBs and
prioritization of unsaturated fats and
sodium reduction which is being stating
to reduce salt intake to lower
populationwide blood pressure levels and
stroke incidence. Essential guideline
comparison saturated fat, sodium and
dietary pattern which is given by WHO,
American Health Association and European
Society of Cardiovascular Cardiology
which is more pointing towards dietary
key dietary pattern focuses which are
more being stated from saturated fat
target to sodium salt targets.
areas of ongoing scientific debate in
nutrition which we can see that the
complex dairy matrix is being more into
discussion versus a sodium threshold and
the pure coconut oil debate which is to
being highlighted over here.
What is the key takeways of this topic
that the whole pattern of over single
nutrients where the cardiovascular
health is driven by overall dietary
pattern and complex food matrix not
isolate nutrients. So the macronutrient
quality is very crucial which is being
stated over here and a strategic
substitution reducing saturated fats
only lowers the cardiovascular risk if
it is replaced with monossaturated or
polyaturated fats. Replacing it with the
refined starches or added sugar offers
no clinical benefit. The double benefit
of plants increasing the whole plant
foods protects the cardiovascular
disease in two ways by reducing exposure
to harmful components and increasing
protective factors. A primary prevention
priority should be implementing
populationwide dietary changes in one of
the most effective and financially
sustainable public health tools
available to reduce the global burden of
cardiovascular disease. So with this we
come an end to this chapter and you can
take this references for the help to
understand this chapter in more detail.
So with this thank you thank you very
much.
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