Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Thanksgiving: A Heart Attack For Dessert?

Dr. Wes

It seems the Washington Post, cloaked under an anonymous author, wants to use scare tactics to keep most of us from enjoying Thanksgiving with their ominously titled article, “And for dessert,??a heart attack?” They spew all kinds of garbage with very little data about how eating a high-fat diet might give you a heart attack.


If you want to know more, consider this article* from some pretty smart folks at Harvard. Then eat, drink, and be merry without guilt (courtesy of Dr. Wes). Happy Thanksgiving!


- WesMusings of a cardiologist and cardiac electrophysiologist.


*REFERENCE: Renata, M. and Mozaffarian, D. “Saturated Fat and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors, Coronary Heart Disease, Stroke, and Diabetes: a Fresh Look at the Evidence.” Lipids, 31 Mar 2010.


[Photo credit: Lambert]



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