The huge Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, which evaluated 74,000 women from the Nurses’ Health Study, and 44,000 men from the Doctors’ Study, shows that eating a one-ounce serving daily of whole grains for 25 years lowers a person’s risk of dying from heart disease by nine percent and risk of dying from anything by five percent (JAMA Internal Medicine, published online Jan 5, 2015). Furthermore, substituting whole grains for refined grains reduced chances of dying by eight percent, and substituting whole grains for red meat reduced death chances by 20 percent. Both meat and refined carbohydrates increase risk for diabetes and heart attacks. Meat blocks insulin receptors to raise blood sugar levels, while refined carbohydrates increase absorption of sugars to raise blood sugar levels.
