Andy Levin tweeted the following:
"Early intervention and treatment through awareness campaigns, nutritional education, and instruction on physical activity can greatly reduce the burden of diabetes, risk of heart disease, decreased quality of life and untimely death."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Andy Levin:
"Despite a diet consisting of lentils, vegetables, grains, and spices, suboptimal nutritional elements of refined carbohydrates, refined fats, salt, and sugar negate any nutritional advantage gained through a traditional South Asian diet."Read on Twitter
"While South Asians comprise 23 percent of the worlds population as of 2020, they carry approximately 60 percent of the worlds global burden of heart disease."Read on Twitter
"Thank you @RepJayapal for your visionary bill, the South Asian Heart Health Awareness and Research Act! South Asians in the US have four times the risk of heart disease than the general population and a greater chance of having a heart attack before age 50 per @StanfordDeptMed."Read on Twitter
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