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Michigan U.S. Rep Andy Levin: "Despite a diet consisting of lentils, vegetables, grains, and spices, suboptimal nutritional elements..."

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Andy Levin tweeted the following:

"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."
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Here are other recent tweets from Andy Levin:

"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."
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"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."
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"I'm proud to support the Asuncin Valdivia Heat Illness and Fatality Prevention Act. Follow along as @EdLaborCmte marks up the bill. twitter.com/EdLaborCmte/st"
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