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Chapter 6 The 10 PREVENTABLE Killer Diseases
Obesity And Heart Disease

According to researchers at the University of Glasgow in Scotland: it appears that obesity in its own right is
associated with an increased risk of fatal heart attacks.

“We already knew that being obese meant you had a higher chance of having a heart attack,” study
researcher Jennifer Logue, MD, of the University of Glasgow, tells WebMD via email. “We also already knew
that obese people were more likely to have high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and Diabetes .”
She says it was thought that high cholesterol and blood pressure were the reasons obese people had more
heart attacks, and that medications can treat those conditions.

But she says the study has shown “two news things: obese, middle-aged men have a 60% increased risk of
dying from a heart attack than non-obese middle-aged men, even after we cancel out any of the effects of
cholesterol, blood pressure, and other cardiovascular risk factors.”
This means, she says, that “obesity itself may be causing fatal heart attacks through a factor that we have not
yet identified.”

Dr. Jennifer Landa says: “Compared to physically fit obese men, normal-weight men who were not physically
fit had a lower risk of dying. Increased levels of fat in the body and high levels of inflammation— regardless of
physical fitness is the root cause of all disease, especially chronic conditions, such as heart disease, diabetes,
cancer and Alzheimer’s disease.

Fat deposits may exist on the surface of the myocardium (muscular wall of the heart) and be contained
completely beneath the membrane that encloses the heart— in contact with major coronary arteries and their
branches. This fat, known as epicardial adipose tissue (EAT), is highly correlated with obesity, and thought to
play a role in the development and vulnerability of plaque in the coronary arteries.”

IF Government & Medical Authorities Were Right - Why Did Obesity Rise So Rapidly Since 1975 ?