The risk of heart diseases in men and women over the age of 40-years is significantly reduced by eating a healthy diet low in saturated fat and sugar.

Thus, the study concluded that healthy individuals, who adapt their diet as per UK dietary guidelines, reduced the risk of cardiovascular diseases by up to a third.
Emeritus Professor Tom Sanders, co-author from the Division of Diabetes and Nutritional Sciences at King’s College London, said, "Our findings applied to middle aged and older people with no health problems since most heart attacks occurred to the ones who were not at their risk and that a change from the traditional British diet high in sugar, to the UK dietary one that is low in sugar and fats, substantially lowered the risk of heart related problems."
The study appears in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Source-Medindia