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posted by Fnord666 on Friday April 19 2019, @01:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc dept.

After Heart Attack: Late Dinner and no Breakfast a Killer Combination:

People who skip breakfast and eat dinner near bedtime have worse outcomes after a heart attack. That's the finding of research published today in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

The study found that people with the two eating habits had a four to five times higher likelihood of death, another heart attack, or angina (chest pain) within 30 days after hospital discharge for heart attack.

This was the first study to evaluate these unhealthy behaviours in patients with acute coronary syndromes. Skipping breakfast was observed in 58%, late-night dinner eating in 51%, and both behaviours in 41%.

The study enrolled patients with a particularly serious form of heart attack called ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). "One in ten patients with STEMI dies within a year, and nutrition is a relatively inexpensive and easy way to improve prognosis," said study author Dr Marcos Minicucci, of São Paolo State University, Brazil.

He recommended a minimum two hour interval between dinner and bedtime. "It is said that the best way to live is to breakfast like a king," he added. "A good breakfast is usually composed of dairy products (fat-free or low fat milk, yogurt and cheese), a carbohydrate (whole wheat bread, bagels, cereals), and whole fruits. It should have 15 to 35% of our total daily calorie intake."

The study included 113 patients with a mean age of 60, and 73% were men. Patients were asked about eating behaviours on admission to a coronary intensive care unit. Skipping breakfast was defined as nothing before lunch, excluding beverages, such as coffee and water, at least three times per week. Late-night dinner eating was defined as a meal within two hours before bedtime at least three times per week.

Is your first meal still called breakfast if you don't wake up until after noon?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @04:35PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 19 2019, @04:35PM (#832199)

    Why are we being scolded to drink skim milk, and then encouraged to eat yogurt and cheese?

    Yogurt is all too often just full of sugar. You'd be far better off with a glass of whole milk than skim milk + sugary yogurt. Yuck.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday April 19 2019, @05:39PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday April 19 2019, @05:39PM (#832220) Journal

    Get an Instant Pot, grab a gallon of whole milk and a yogurt cup, make your own yogurt with almost no added sugars.

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Friday April 19 2019, @09:43PM

      by Bot (3902) on Friday April 19 2019, @09:43PM (#832309) Journal

      Protip: the milk that the cat did not lap up, the next day is yogurt.

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    • (Score: 1) by optotronic on Saturday April 20 2019, @02:09AM (1 child)

      by optotronic (4285) on Saturday April 20 2019, @02:09AM (#832408)

      Or you can buy bulk, non-fat, no-sugar-added yogurt (regular or Greek) and add fresh or frozen fruit.

      I keep (and wash) an old bulk yogurt container, put half the new yogurt into the old container, then fill the rest of each container with frozen fruit. Next day I stir it up before spooning a serving into a cup.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 20 2019, @03:15AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 20 2019, @03:15AM (#832434)

        You don't want the non-fat. Full-fat tastes better, and is better for you. Fat is an essential part of a healthy diet and you will be hungrier and eat more if you don't get enough of it.

  • (Score: 1) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday April 19 2019, @11:43PM

    by Coward, Anonymous (7017) on Friday April 19 2019, @11:43PM (#832372) Journal

    "A good breakfast is usually composed of dairy products (fat-free or low fat milk, yogurt and cheese), a carbohydrate (whole wheat bread, bagels, cereals), and whole fruits. It should have 15 to 35% of our total daily calorie intake."

    I think the Dr. is saying that all of the dairy, including yoghurt and cheese, should be low-fat, but the wording is ambiguous. Not that I buy into the advice given. Nutritional recommendations seem generally pretty useless