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| | Go Grains - Literature Review: Cereal Grains and Coronary Heart Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Cereal grains (wheat, barley, oats, rice, rye, corn etc) and foods made from them are widely recommended as the basis for a healthy diet. |
 | | In the same study, examination of the risks of 10 major causes of death by categories of whole-grain and refined grain intake (adjusted for 23 variables) showed that for women in the highest category of whole grain foods intake, the risk of CHD was reduced by 18% compared to those in the lowest category (10). |
 | | Cereal foods, refined or whole grain, may protect against heart disease by acting as carriers of folic acid fortification. A high plasma (total) homocysteine level appears to be an independent risk factor for CHD, stroke, and venous thrombosis (30). |
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