Want a healthy heart? Don’t skip breakfast, don’t snack after dinner
Bharat.Yagnik@timesgroup.com
Ahmedabad:09.02.2021
“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper,” says the old adage. A recent study by the students and faculty of NHL Municipal Medical College concurs with this wisdom as it found that missing breakfast and eating heavy meals close to bedtime at night could enhance the risk of a heart attack.
Snacking after dinner, which is widely prevalent in Gujarati homes where people finish dinner between 7 and 8 pm, can up the risk of heart attack by 29%, the research carried out in over 420 people found.
The profile of patients with cardiac issues underscored poor eating habits when all other factors like age, smoking/ tobacco consumption, BMI, etc were the same. The researchers suggested breakfast is the most important meal of the day and should have maximum calorie intake, while dinner should have least calories. It should be taken at least two hours before going to bed for a healthy heart life.
The study titled ‘A casecontrol study on food frequency and meal pattern distribution in coronary artery disease patients attending tertiary care teaching hospitals’ was recently published in the Indian Journal of Community Medicine. The authors include Dr Siddharth Agrawal, Dr Dishant Upadhyay and Dr Aparajita Shukla from the Department of Community Medicine at NHL Medical College. P 6
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