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Reduce Heart Attack Symptoms - Surprising Heart Attack and Weight Connection Discovered
Those
who are overweight and out of shape are at a higher heart attack risk. Those who are fit and slim are at a low heart attack risk.
This
is a well-documented fact. Or is it?
A
new study in the journal Scientific Reports puts this fact to a test, and the
results were quite unexpected.
The
researchers recruited 52 physically active men between the ages of 18 and 30
and divided them into the three waist-to-height ratio groups.
A
waist-to-height ratio is your waist circumference divided by height.
Carrying
extra weight around the belly area (donut) has long been considered to be a
predictor of heart attack risk. As such, a high waist-to-height ratio is often used as
an indicator to see if people are at higher risk of heart attack.
A
waist-to-height ratio of 0.5 is considered relatively safe but anything higher
would indicate increased risk (the higher the riskier).
Now
they measured the men’s post-exercise recovery, which is a great indicator of
heart health.
Post-exercise
recoveries are measured by having the subject exercise hard and then monitor
how quickly they recover. The most important data is how fast the heart rate
decreases and how quickly the blood pressure drops. Both of these are
controlled by your parasympathetic nervous system.
Unsurprisingly,
the post-exercise recovery time increased with increased waist-to-height
ratios. Men with waist-to-height ratio fared the worst.
That’s
of course why people with a high ratio have been found to be at higher risk of
heart attack.
But
the finding that alarmed the scientists was that many of those whose ratios
fell below the heart disease risk threshold still recovered at a rate that
indicated a serious heart disease risk.
This
came as a surprise, not only because these subject’s ratios were below the
heart disease risk threshold, but also because they were not overweight and
were relatively active physically, often playing recreational sports over the
weekends.
However,
this is no surprise to us who have been studying natural health for a long
time. Body fat is not a direct indicator of plaque build-up in your heart
arteries – which of course is THE cause of heart attack.
Reduce Heart Attack Symptoms - High Cholesterol? It’s Not WHAT You Eat But WHEN
If
you have high cholesterol, and especially if your LDL (bad) cholesterol is high,
chances are you’ve been told to drastically change what you eat.
Pretty
much cut out everything you like and load up on the food you hate, right?
But
a new study published in the journal Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
reveals that you can normalize your cholesterol by just shifting WHEN you eat,
and this can be done without making any changes to your diet.
A
team of scientists analysed the information of 1,283 adults that were collected
by Taiwan’s Nutrition and Health
Survey. 44.4 percent of them were female and the rest were male.
They
asked the participants to recall the details of their daily food intake,
including the exact dishes, snacks, and mealtimes, and also tested the
participant’s cholesterol and blood fats.
Here are how people ate on the average:
1.
Morning breakfast: 05:00 to 09:29, 385 calories.
2.
Mid-morning snack: 09:30 to 11:29, 123 calories.
3.
Noon lunch: 11:30 to 13:39, 522 calories.
4.
Afternoon snack: 13:30 to 17:29, 171 calories.
5.
Evening dinner: 17:30 to 20:30, 557 calories.
6.
Night-time snack: 20:30 to 04:59, 169 calories.
From
this table, you can see that their diets were rather light in the mornings and
increasing to heavy in the evenings, with a surprising amount of snacking
during the night.
Now, the interesting discoveries:
1.
Those who snacked more than 100 calories during the night had 0.94 mg/dL higher
LDL cholesterol than those who did not.
2.
Those who snacked more than 100 calories of fat during the night had 2.98 mg/dL
higher LDL cholesterol than those who did not.
3.
Those who ate 100 extra calories in the morning or noon instead of eating them
as a night-time snack dropped their LDL cholesterol by 1.46 mg/dL (morning) and
1.27 mg/dL (noon).
4.
Those who ate 100 extra calories of fat at noon or in the evening instead of
eating them as a night-time snack dropped their LDL cholesterol by 5.21 mg/dL
(noon) and 3.19 mg/dL (evening).
Why is the timing of meals important?
Using
previous studies as a guide, the researchers explained that our bodies produce
and use cholesterol differently depending on the time of the day.
As
such, your liver produces different amounts of cholesterol at different times
of the day, your intestines take up different amounts at different times of the
day, and many of your tissues use different amounts at different times of the
day.
There
is also some evidence that your liver produces most of its cholesterol at
night.
Now,
if you eat a lot of fat at night, and your liver spikes its cholesterol
production at the same time, your body will be bombarded with cholesterol at
the time when you are the least physically active and your body uses the least
of it.
Hence,
shift your calorie and fat intake from nights and even evenings to mornings and
afternoons.
Reduce Heart Attack Symptoms -Is
Meat Good or Bad for Cholesterol? (Surprise, Surprise)
If
you have heard that vegan and Mediterranean diets are heart healthy but have
been incapable (or unwilling) of eliminated red meat from your diet, you will
love a new study that was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Scientists
from the Purdue University and the University of Texas Medical Branch accepted
that the Mediterranean diet had great cardiovascular benefits but wondered
whether red meat really spoiled these benefits.
They
decided to test the theory by putting 41 overweight or moderately obese
volunteers through a series of diets.
They
first ate a Mediterranean diet that contained 500 grams of lean, unprocessed
red meat per week, for five weeks. This was supposed to be the amount of meat
the typical American consumes weekly (around three ounces per day).
They
then returned to their normal eating patterns for five weeks.
Lastly,
they returned to the Mediterranean diet for five weeks, but this time with only
200 grams of meat per week (three ounces twice a week).
This
is closer to what the Mediterranean diet actually looks like.
While
they were on the Mediterranean diet, including both the meaty and low-meat
variants, they experienced an improvement in blood pressure and LDL
cholesterol, while their HDL cholesterol, glucose, and insulin remaining
unchanged.
This
meant that the Mediterranean diet was healthy, and that the amount of meat
consumed with it will not ruin the benefits you receive from this healthy diet.
The
researchers were impressed to see that the heart benefits could be seen after
only five weeks of healthy dieting, and they expected that glucose and insulin
levels in the subjects would also have responded positively if the participants
had remained on the diet for a longer period.
Now,
just so you know, both Beef and Pork Checkoffs funded this study, which might
disqualify the results a little.
For
more ideas to reduce heart attack symptoms, watch this video - 15 Foods That Reduce Your Heart Attack Risk According to Doctors
This post is from the
Oxidized Cholesterol Strategy Program. It was created by Scott Davis. Because
he once suffered from high cholesterol, so much so that he even had a severe
heart attack. This is what essentially led him to finding healthier
alternatives to conventional medication. Oxidized Cholesterol Strategy is a unique online program that provides you with all
the information you need to regain control of your cholesterol levels and
health, as a whole.
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