The key to a man’s heart may be in a little bowl. Of cereal.
Men who eat whole-grain cereal for breakfast have a lower risk of heart failure than their cereal-averse peers, according to a study from the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
Culling data from a national survey of more than 20,000 physicians launched in 1982, investigators found that men who ate seven or more servings per week of cereal had 28 percent less risk of heart failure than those who ate no cereal at all. The risk was reduced by 22 percent for those who ate whole-grain cereal two to six times a week.
“A half-cup to a cup of whole-grain ereal with 4 grams of fiber is fine. And use skim or low-fat milk,” says Dr. Luc Djousse, who worked on the study, which was published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
Los Angeles Times
