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A study of over 3,400 adults in Saudi Arabia--a country of tea-lovers--found that those who drank more than 6 cups per day of the brown beverage had a more than 50% lower risk of coronary heart disease compared to tea abstainers, even after adjusting for other factors such as smoking, diet and obesity.

 

Cardiac Care

Large meals put you at a risk of Heart Attack !!

Piling food onto your plate isn't just bad for your waistline.
Just have a look at a study presented at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans.

It finds that eating an unusually large meal may significantly
raise a person's risk of heart attack.

Researchers from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital looked at 1,986 heart attack patients. The men and women were asked what they had eaten just before their heart attacks. One hundred fifty-eight of the patients said they had had a heavy meal within 26 hours prior to having their heart attack. Twenty-five had eaten a lot two hours before having a heart attack.

The researchers determined that a huge meal increases the risk of heart attack tenfold within the first hour of eating, and quadruples the heart attack risk within two hours after eating.

However, the risk returns to normal three hours after eating, the researchers found. They say this heightened risk could be due to hormones released after big meals that put stress on the heart. It could also be that big meals increase blood's tendency to clot.