Friday, October 17, 2008

BREAK FAST CAN PREVENT HEART ATTACK


Breakfast can help prevent strokes


It has been identified Breakfast can help prevent strokes, heart attack and sudden death.
Advice on not to skip breakfast. For those who always skip breakfast, you should stop that habit now.You've heard many times that
"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

Now, recent research confirms that one of the worst practices you can develop
may be avoiding breakfast.Why? Because the frequency of heart attack, sudden death,
and stroke peaks between 6:00a.m. and noon, with the
highest incidence being between 8:00a.m. and 10:00a.m.

What mechanism within the body could account for this significant jump
in sudden death in the early morning hours ?
We may have an Answer.
Platelet, tiny elements in the blood that keep us from bleeding to Death
if we get a cut, can clump together inside our arteries due to cholesterol or
Plaque buildup in the artery lining.

It is in the morning hours that platelets become the most activated
and tend to form these internal blood clots at the greatest frequency.

However, eating even a very light breakfast prevents the morning
platelet activation that is associated with heart attacks and strokes.

Studies performed at Memorial University in St.Johns, Newfound
land found that eating a light, very low-fat breakfast was critical
in modifying the morning platelet activation.

Subjects in the study consumed either low-fat or fat-free yogurt,
orange juice, fruit, and a source of protein coming from yogurt or fat-free milk.
So if you skip breakfast, it's important that you change this practice immediately
in light of this research.

Develop a simple plan to eat cereal, such as oatmeal or Bran Flakes, along with six ounces of grape juice or orange juice, and perhaps a piece of fruit.
This simple plan will keep your platelets from sticking together,
keep blood clots from forming, and perhaps head off a potential Heart Attack or stroke.
So never ever skip breakfast.

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