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Saturated Fat and Fast Food

Nutrition Facts with Dr. Greger

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Do Vegetarian Dietary Salts Reduce Artery Function?

High dietary sodium intake reduces artery function. The longer someone was meat free, the better the degree of superior artery function correlated with the number of years eating meat free. But it may just be the animal fat, since high fat whole plant foods like nuts don't have the same effect. If you feed people buns made ou of white flower eggs, butter and salt, they get a gradual drop in artery function over the next six hours. But add the equivalent of a cup of wild blueberries to that same bun, and you instead get a big boost in artery function. About the same amount of strawberries failed to rescue artery function from the likes of two cheese blenzes with whipped cream

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