Posted on 06/08/2015 8:55:08 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Being obese could actually improve the chances of survival after a heart attack because excess fat appears to fight heart disease, a study has shown.
Scientists have been puzzled as to why people classed as very overweight lived longer after a heart attack than those with a healthy Body Mass Index.
However, a study of tissue collected from patients undergoing heart surgery found that fat surrounding damaged blood vessels releases chemicals that start to battle heart disease.
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The more they learn the more they don’t know. “Experts” are all over the place on this stuff.
Nature has a way sometimes of compensating for its own problems.
What we look at today and say “eww, gross health problem” could be how nature was primed to deal with situations of glut and famine. Being way too fat is another way of being famine-ready.
Woo-hoo!
I’ll live forever.
And of COURSE they still are doing the BMI crap, which has often been shown to be WRONG and not healthy for people that actually have MUSCLE mass. And gets very wrong for taller people as well. Foolish doctors keep thinking they are God.
BMI is a crock statistic.
It is convenient but built on bad ideas from a century ago.
BMI insists that men and women should weigh the same.
The graves of greediness remain a hazard, I suppose.
Hmmm. My great grandmother died of a stroke at 53. She was slim. My grandmother survived a heart attack around the same age, not so slim. My mother barely survived a massive heart attack at 51, she was in between their sizes. I’m 41 and getting nervous. I’m also slimmer than any of them. What I don’t do, however, is follow any of the modern nutritional guidelines. I eat plenty of fat, though little from corn or soy. Butter, olive and coconut oil. We drink whole milk and little processed food.
I’ve heard cholesterol is what your body uses to try to heal hardened arteries. Maybe it’s not the fat cells in heavy people that offer recovery but the fact that they eat more cholesterol?
If you want to stay healthy, stay away from the Doctor.
So to sum up - being a lard@ass will definitely cause many more heart-attacks, but because you are a lard@ss, you may actually have a better chance of surviving those heart attacks.
makes perfect sense....
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Several years ago I heard a Doctor on the radio who made a convincing argument that cholesterol was not the villain in heart attacks, but inflammation was.
Apparently young, fit folks who suffer a heart attack are more likely to doe from it than an older person. Apparently if one is young and fit, the heart pumps faster where with an older person things seep slowly.
Probably an obese person’s heart would be acting like an older heart and not pump fast and cause death.
When I was still long haul truck driving, I changed companies.
I had just passed a DOT mandated physical two months earlier, but because I was changing companies another one was needed.
I passed with flying colors, even though I was 15 pounds overweight.
Another fella, same height as me, flunked the physical because of the BMI.
Only problem was, he constantly lifted weights and was extremely fit.
All the extra muscle put him WAY over the BMI.
They took him to a doctor who certified his weight as due to “extreme fitness due to bodybuilding “.
The lunacy.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Agreed. There was a research report done in the late 60's correlating height and weight to percentage fat, which appears to be much more accurate than the standard BMI calculation, at least for men.
In addition, another report indicates that women have 10.8% more body fat compared to men for equivalent BMI's.
I used to be more vigilant in maintaining an anti inflammatory diet. It got too expensive as food costs have gone up. My youngest is still in diapers, I’d hate to keep up with family history regarding cardiovascular problems. Maybe it’s worth finding funds to eat better again.
Where does it say they have more heart-attacks?
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