“ Tell me where you live, I’ll tell you what you eat… and what health risks you expose yourself to! » Researchers studied data from thousands of participants in three types of food environments: pubs and bars, restaurants or cafeterias and fast food restaurants. They were able to verify the link between the proximity of places of residence and access to “ready to eat” food in the increase in cases of heart failure.
Living close to pubs, barsbars and fast foods may lead to a higher risk of heart failure, according to a new study published in the journal Traffic of the’American Heart Association. When the heart loses some of its muscular strength and normal contraction capacity, it no longer pumps enough blood to allow the organs to receive enough oxygen and nutrients, essential for their proper functioning. We then speak of heart failure.
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If excess LDL cholesterol (the “bad” cholesterol) or a diet too rich in salt promote the occurrence of heart failure, few studies have evaluated the relationship between heart failure and the dietary environment. In short, do the place of residence and the food supply around the habitat increase the risks?
These unhealthy eating environments for the heart
Researchers from Tulane University in New Orleans worked from the UK Biobanka databasedatabase containing health information for over 500,000 adults in the UK. They then measured participants’ exposure to three types of food environments: pubs and bars, restaurants or cafeterias and fast food restaurants.
Over the follow-up period which lasted 12 years, nearly 13,000 cases of heart failure were recorded. And for scientists:
- those who lived within 500 meters of a pub had a 14% increased risk of developing heart failure;
- living near a fast food restaurant increases the risk by 10%.
For the authors, no mystery, “ exposure to food environments “ready to eat” is associated with risks of other disorders, such as type 2 diabetes and obesity, which may increase the risk of heart failure “.
Scientists also point out the fact that precarious populations, living on the edge of city centers or those without access to green spaces or activity facilities physicalphysicalare the most affected.
