The Source of Fat Matters to Your Heart
Plant-Based Fats Linked to Lower Mortality Risk
New research suggests that swapping animal fats for plant-based options could significantly improve you and your physical therapy (PT) patients' health.
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine found a strong correlation between dietary fat intake and mortality rates. Researchers analyzed data from over 400,000 participants over 24 years and discovered some surprising results.
Key Findings:
- Plant fats are protective: Consuming more plant-based fats, especially those found in grains and vegetable oils, was associated with a lower risk of overall and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality.
- Animal fats linked to increased risk: Higher intake of animal fats, including those from dairy and eggs, was linked to an increased risk of death from both overall and cardiovascular causes.
- Significant impact: Replacing just 5% of energy from animal fat with plant-based fat could lea...
CNPT Cited and Acknowledged in the Japanese Medical Association Journal and the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition
By Dr. Sean Wells, DPT, PT, OCS, ATC/L, CSCS, CNPT, Cert-DN
I am humbled and honored to have my courses cited and acknowledged in the Japanese Medical Association Journal and the Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Nutrition. The authors cite my courses as a vital step forward for US PTs and the APTA in emphasizing nutrition for physical therapy practice.
In this free, full-text position paper the authors emphasize the data on how nutrition and PT can impact conditions like sarcopenia, quality of life, and PT goals. With exercise being a core component of our interventions, nutrition must also play a role in the rehabilitation process. From improvements in quality of life (QOL), health, and physical functions, incorporating nutrition with PT practice is important and impactful. The authors also highlight the need of PTs to evaluate nutrition status and the importance of working with a team, including dieticians, physicians, and nurses.
In the end the Japanese Medical Associatio...
Congestive Heart Failure and Nutrition
By Dr. Sean M. Wells, PT, DPT, ATC/L, OCS, CSCS, CNPT, Cert-DN
Cardiac physical therapy is a rewarding area of PT practice that takes precision, complex thinking, and a team of specialists working toward a common goal. Often patients in cardiac rehabilitation present with chest pain (angina), ischemic heart disease, stents, bypass surgeries, and/or heart failure.
Doctors of physical therapy do their best to push these patients to maximize their endurance, functioning, and cardiac capability. We often do this through various interventions like treadmill exercises, stepping, strengthening, and breathing techniques. After a recent study, nutrition may be one of those interventions that PTs need to focus more on.
New Study
Published in the British Journal of Nutrition, researchers found a correlation with plant-focused diets, like the MIND and Mediterranean diets, with left ventricular function. Specifically the researchers looked at cohort sample of 2,512 patients from the Framingham...
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