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In a message dated 10/4/04 8:16:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, perspect1111@... writes:

As Al noted NUTS turned out to be a major factor in this study for

helping to reduce heart disease - protection factor 50%. And this

applied to NONVEGs as much as to VEGs.

How about this one at 50%, also from the Adventist Study: water >= 5 glasses/day had relative risk of ~.5 compared to <= 2 glasses/day for fatal CHD.

http://aje.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/155/9/827

American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 155, No. 9 : 827-833

Water, Other Fluids, and Fatal Coronary Heart Disease

The Adventist Health Study

Chan et al

in 2002

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or also in the Adventist Study, 50% for exercise: "It was noted that exercise had a strong negative association with fatal CHD events (relative risks [RR], 1.0, 0.66, and 0.50 with increasing exercise) but no association with risk of MI (either nonfatal or all cases). Conversely, obesity was much more clearly associated with MI (RR, 1.0, 1.18, and 1.83 with increasing tertiles of obesity) than with fatal events."

http://circ.ahajournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/86/2/406?ijkey=fd80c0a2934cc3c363b2ebe7a839ac5e614b840e & keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

http://tinyurl.com/4yjnd

Effects of traditional coronary risk factors on rates of incident coronary events in a low-risk population. The Adventist Health Study

GE Fraser et al

in 1992

, in "Circulation"

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Ken