I am calling you out.

“You who have no qualms about gaining readers from this blog suddenly show such feelings of personal umbrage. ”

I have NEVER given the name or address of my blog here. I have never directed anyone to my site through Michelles blog. I have never taken content from michelles blog. Only my FB friends get notice of my blog entries. And that’s not you. Michelle gets notice on FB and she can confirm I have never posted anything here about or from the blogs on my website.

I don’t know what your agenda is but I would appreciate an apology. That’s fucked up. You’re fucked up. I don’t know how you found my blog but stop harassing me. And get your facts straight.

What will I do the rest of the day? It is almost unbearable existing without her near me or at least hearing her voice.

How’s this for weird? In spite of all the admonitions to eat a low-fat, high-fiber diet, it appears that a quick high-fat splurge actually might protect you from muscle damage caused by heart attack.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have discovered that a short-term, high-fat diet helped protect mice against tissue injury from heart attacks.

Although the researchers are quick to add that they don’t know yet whether the diet will work the same way for human beings, this may someday lead to a change in dietary recommendations.

UNEXPECTED FINDINGS

A large body of research had established that people who have higher cholesterol levels are at increased risk for heart attack — but that’s not the whole story.

Surprisingly, in people with certain conditions (such as heart failure), having high cholesterol means that they have a better chance of surviving a heart attack.

This seemingly paradoxical bit of information led associate professor Keith Jones, PhD, University of Cincinnati Health cardiologist, assistant professor Jack Rubinstein, MD, and doctoral student Lauren Haar to do their own research on the topic.

They designed a study on mice that were fed a menu intended to create cholesterol levels akin to those in humans who eat a high-fat diet.

Some were fed the high-fat diet for just one day… others, for one to six weeks. A control group of mice was fed a standard, lower-fat diet.

Then the researchers measured the high-fat diet’s effect in two ways — over a short period of time and over the long term — as it related to heart attack survival. (Yes, they induced heart attacks in the mice.)

Researchers found that…
Heart damage in mice that had been on the high-fat diet for up to two weeks was, on average, 70% less than in mice on the six-week high-fat diet and the control diet.

No cardio protection occurred in mice on the long-term (six-week) high-fat diet. In a second experiment, the 24-hour high-fat diet was followed by a control diet for 24 hours before heart attacks were induced —

and those mice also experienced greater protection from heart attack damage versus mice who were fed regular grain and vegetable-based chow — confirming that it is, in fact, the short-term, high-fat feeding that provided the most protection.

Haar presented these findings at the 2011 Experimental Biology Meeting sponsored by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics on April 13, 2011.

BRING ON THE FAT? NOT SO FAST

As intriguing as the study results are, we can’t get too carried away by them, caution Dr. Jones and Dr. Rubinstein.

For one thing, it’s not known how to time a short-term fat splurge for optimal heart attack protection, if indeed that’s possible in humans.

Also, it’s well-known that heavy people with weight-related health issues tend to have more heart attacks, so for this group, any high-fat program must be approached with extreme caution.

That said, this research presents an intriguing model for the future, and the researchers intend to continue studying the heart-protective effects of a short-term fat splurge — for now, in animals.

In the meantime, don’t trade in your poached salmon and spinach for a bacon cheeseburger. Evidence shows that a regular anti-inflammatory diet low in saturated fat and high in healthful monounsaturated fats — from fish, avocados, olive oil, etc. — offers the best long-term protection against heart disease.

But we do now know that an occasional indulgence might not harm you at all… in fact, it might help you… but we can’t say for sure yet.

Source(s):

Lauren Haar, doctoral student, systems biology and physiology graduate program, University of Cincinnati.

Keith Jones, PhD, associate professor, department of pharmacology and cell biophysics, University of Cincinnati.

Jack Rubinstein, MD, health cardiologist, assistant professor of medicine, division of cardiovascular diseases, University of Cincinnati.

I suspect many more movies will reach the theaters based on the characters and themes expressed here.

Considering the annoyance taken by HRHSUN, because of your faux pas, I suspect HRHSUN would be calling his/her solicitors about now, if they were taken from his/her blog.

Tanner

Stock markets are dropping already. At many companies, hiring is on hold. And in eight days – we may have to stop mailing out Social Security checks, paying veterans benefits, and effectively shutting down the federal government as America defaults on its debt.