Just a trip through the drive-through for a greasy and fast-food meal could put your heart at risk.
A new study shows eating a greasy meal increases the unhealthy effects of stress in the heart, such as raising blood pressure.
The researchers have found that people who ate a greasy and fast-food breakfast were more likely to suffer the negative effects of stress than those who ate a healthy, low -fat breakfast.
"What is really shocking is that this is just a meal," says researcher Tavis Campbell, PhD, assistant professor of Psychology at the University of Calgary, in a news version. "It is well documented that a high fat diet leads to atherosclerosis [hardening of arteries] and high blood pressure, and that exaggerated and prolonged cardiovascular responses are associated with high blood pressure."
"So when we learn that even a single high-fat meal can make it more reactive to stress, it is a cause for concern because it suggests a new and harmful way that a high-fat diet affects the function cardiovascular".
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in the study, 30 healthy adults fast the night before and then ate a high-fat McDonald's fat content that consists of McDonald's In a mcmuffin sausage, an egg McMuffin, and two hash hash patties or a low-fat dry cereal-free breakfast with skim milk, a cereal fruit bar, fatty yogurt and a glass of orange juice.
Both meals contained about 800 calories, but the high-fat meal had 42 grams of fat, and the low fat meal had 1 gram of fat. A sodium supplement was added to the low-fat meal even the difference between the two meals.
Two hours later, participants completed several stress-induced tasks, while researchers measured their cardiovascular response, including blood pressure, heart rate and resistance within blood vessels. The tasks were designed to cause mental and / or physical stress, how to complete a public exercise on something emotionally provocative or hold a hand in ice water.
The results showed that regardless of the task, the blood response blood was higher among those who ate the high-fat meal than those who ate low-fat.
Researchers say it is not clear how a single high-fat meal can sensitize the body to stress, but the results suggest a new way in which high diets can contribute to heart disease.
