Obesity Paradox: A High-Fat Diet Reduces Heart Attack Damage 50 Percent
Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - 15:10
in Health & Medicine
Over the long term, a high-fat diet is bad for heart attack risk. Yet a new study finds that if you are going to have a heart attack, you are likely to get through it better if you ate a high-fat diet before it happened. Mice fed a high-fat diet for one day to two weeks days before a heart attack had heart attack reduced by about 50 percent. If the results could be translated to humans, that would mean piling on cheeseburgers and ice cream for a month to a year, not a winning strategy for lots of other reasons.It's another example of the obesity paradox, an unexplained phenomenon where obese patients who do have a heart attack live longer than thin ones. read more