NOT ALL FRIED FOODS ARE BAD FOR THE HEART. SPANISH STUDY SHOWED THAT FOOD FRIED IN OLIVE OIL OR SUNFLOWER OIL IS OK

It has always been thought that fried foods, full of lard is bad for the heart as it promotes cholesterol deposits in the coronary arteries.That remains true. A recently reported study now tells us that not all fried foods are bad. How you fry and wht oil you use is also important.
Prof Pilar Castillion and colleagues at the Autonomous University of Madrid has published their study in the 24th Jan issue of the British Medical Journal, on this subject. They analysed data from the EPIC ( European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition ) study, and data from hospital records of their cohorts. In the cohorts were 40,757 subjects who had no heart disease at the start of study. They were aged between 29-69 years. They followed them up for 11 years. They studied their nutritional history especially regarding the number of times they had meals with fried food and what oil was used in frying. They then divided the cohort in to 4 quartiles according to their fried food intake. The lowest quartile with the lowest intake and the 4th quartile with the highest intake. After 11 years of follow up, there were 606 subjects with heart disease and 1,134 deaths. They found no difference in the heart disease rates between those in the lowest quartiles and the highest quartile. This is as oppose to previous study which showed that subjects who consume fried foods were associated with a higher incidence of heart disease.
Basically, a Mediteranean diet is good for the heart and also olve oil and sunflower oil.