What's Your Risk Of Having A Heart Attack During Thanksgiving? You Might Be Surprised!

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24TH, 2010
6:30pm

NOTE: There will be no class this Thursday.

Thanksgiving is the starting point of holiday season in United States. In recent days for most people in America thanksgiving is more of a feast rather than a time for giving thanks. One can always say apart from starting the holiday season thanksgiving also kicks in the season for heart attack. Unfortunately, that’s what is happening.

In 1999, Dr. Robert A. Kloner, MD, PhD, of the Heart Institute at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles found that heart attack deaths begin to increase around Thanksgiving, continue to rise through Christmas, peak on New Year’s Day, and then drop off. The researchers concluded that overindulgence and emotional stress during the holiday season were behind what Dr. Kloner dubbed the “Merry Christmas Coronary” and “Happy New Year Heart Attack” phenomenon.

PLEASE follow up this introduction from My Healthy World's by reading the following article from The Washington Post. Pay particular attention to the paragraph that begins, "But that's not all". I really want you to understand that this is what happens over time to people who eat these same foods (sugars, breads, pastas, grains, dairy...pies!, etc.) on a regular basis even if they don't indulge. An analogy for this situation would be that Thanksgiving dinner is like being in a boxing ring with a welterweight champion and having him deliver the knockout punch. This is in contrast to regular daily poor eating habits that is the equivalent of someone just tapping their finger on your forehead repetitively until you have a massive bruise and a pounding migraine.

Here's the article you MUST read...Thanksgiving Dinner Can Be Deadly.


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