[Is our current diet a prudent diet?]
1980
Kromhout, D. (Rijksuniversiteit Leiden (Netherlands). Inst. voor Sociale Geneeskunde)
Diet can be considered as an important determinant of current public health problems, like cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity and dental caries. It may be expected that a prudent diet contributes to prevention of these diseases. Compared to the current diet a prudent diet will contain less animal protein, saturated fat, dietary cholesterol, oligosaccharides and salt and more vegetable protein, polysaccharides and dietary fibre. In addition there are some indications that a moderate alcohol intake is recommendable. The prudent diet can be realised in everyday practice by a lower intake of meat and meat products, dairy products, eggs, low-PUFA margarines and cooking fats, sugar, soft drinks, sweets, cakes and salt, and a higher intake of bread, potatoes, pulses, vegetables, fruits, high-PUFA margarines and cooking oils, nuts and fish
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