Cardiovasoprotective foods and nutrients: possible importance of magnesiumintake

Various highly efficient cardiovasoprotective diets associate reduced intak e of total and saturated fats, reasonable supply of monounsaturated fat and omega-3 fatty acids, moderate consumption of alcohol, increased intake of cereals, fruits, vegetables, fish and low fat daily products. Among several protective nutrients magnesium should be given particular con sideration because of the very frequent occurrence of chronic primary magne sium deficiency which appears to act as a cardiovascular risk factor and al so reversely, because of the noticeable high level of the magnesium content in cardiovasoprotective diets.