DON'T lose weight after a heart attack?
Categories: Diet & Weight Loss
Ugh, gotta love contradicting health information these days! Seems like it's everywhere, including cardiac health and heart attacks. Where the usual advice for heart attack patients has been to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle, now new studies are showing it may be better for them not to lose weight. It seems once the damage of obesity has been done there is little to gain by losing the extra pounds, and that the additional weight may actually help the prognosis of heart attack patients.Although I'm not a doctor this seems screwed up to me. Even if it does benefit the heart in recovering from a heart attack, what about all other serious and life threatening problems that can come from obesity?
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Bob 10-07-2007 @ 5:23AM
Quote from article:
The editorial in the journal Circulation said: "Among patients with cardiovascular illness, the finding that obese patients fare prognostically better than non-obese patients is not restricted to patients with chronic heart failure. Indeed, in other chronic illnesses like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cancer, renal failure, or liver cirrhosis, obese patients show better survival. Obesity must be a marker of something positive if it is not itself of benefit."
Sounds like the weight is a benefit for chronic illness only.
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Nicholas Dynes Gracey 10-07-2007 @ 2:08PM
Hi Rigel Gregg, Bob & Anyone seeking a cure for chronic 'diseases' classified for example as "heart disease" or "diabetes mellitus" aka chronic HYPERglycemia [c/o chronic transient HYPERinsulinemia] …
Obesity is NOT a disease and UNdrugTREATED obesity should be a lifestyle choice...
http://www.chestjournal.org/cgi/content/full/120/6/1953
Heart disease is NOT caused by artery-sclerosis aka 'atherosclerosis' [which is a protective adaptative process] or angina [which is a protective adaptative process].
"...what about all other serious and life threatening problems that can come from obesity?..."
Such issues "come" ...
BECAUSE conventional drug administration imposed upon Those considered "obese" have 'drug-associated side-effects' including 'heart disease' and 'diabetes'.
…Warm thanks; Nick Gracey, BSc(Hons) Medical Biochemistry, Birmingham University, UK, WATerian c/o www.thatsfit.com @ 18:50hrs SUN.07.OCT.2007.
ps… Diabetes Is Caused By Food And Or Drug Administration Too Much And Or Too Often.
http://www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/04/19/no-food-no-problem
pps… Diabetes is NOT a disease … diabetes is the CURE [for relative-HYPOglycemia]…
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bpb/24/8/950/_pdf
'Relative-HYPOglycemia As A Cause Of Neuropsychiatric Illness' @ Journal Of The National Medical Association @ Harry M Salzer MD @ January 1966 @ Vol 58 @ Number 1 @ Table 1 @ Figure 2.
ppps… FOR MORE related info on chronic HYPERglycemia, chronic transient HYPERinsulinemia AND Insulin Resistance [a protective adaptative process] induced by transient CARBOhydrate overload... please follow the links via…
www.tinyurl.com/2k4n3a
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