What do your eyes reveal?
April 2024
It is not the same to skip the first food than any other meal of the day, because not have breakfast 30% increase the risk of coronary heart disease in men, in particular, to suffer a myocardial infarction, reveals a study published in the journal Circulation, of the American Heart Association .
In accordance with Leah E. Cahill, lead author , explains that according to this study applied to more than 27 thousand people in the United States, during 16 years, it shows that more than 1500 men presented an episode of myocardial infarction, who had as habit the fast .
Due to the lack of nutrients by not have breakfast , the body has to get energy through other mechanisms, for example, using fat from other sites, which is more harmful to cardiovascular health, explains the specialist.
While researchers from the School of Public Health of the University of Harvard consider that there is still a "lack of scientific evidence on the effects of fast in adults ", who are precisely those who, increasingly, start the day without any nutritional contribution, several studies have shown that this trend leads to cardiovascular health problems, such as myocardial infarction.
In this sense, Julián Villacastín, head of the Arrhythmia Unit and director of the Cardiovascular Institute of the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid , explains that those who stop have breakfast , are people who have a worse cardiovascular profile; that is, they present higher levels of fats and high cholesterol .
There are different causes that deprive a person of the breakfast , such as stress, mainly among young people, but also, their profile is aggravated because the fast it detonates that they smoke more, added to that they work full time, sleep little, drink alcohol and have little time for physical activity.
In this way, specialists reinforce the idea of how fundamental it is have breakfast , since it not only reduces the risk of a myocardial infarction, but also reduces the appearance of other chronic-degenerative diseases. The best prevention measure: healthy habits.