I have been maintaining that Cholesterol and heart attack are not connected.Please read my blogs under health.
So is fried food and heart attack.
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The Corporations and Pharma companies would make you make you believe in any thing, such is the power of media. especially TV Commercials.
One should watch the ad of Cardia Olive Oil in India on TV, where the setting and the voice over are so sombre in warning you of heart attack by using oils other than Cardia Olive Oil, you would rush to Doctor to check your heart!
Icing on the cake is the statement that people in Europe do not suffer heart attack by using olive Oil
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IT IS a “myth” that regularly eating fried foods causes heart attacks, researchers have found, as long as you use olive oil or sunflower oil.
They say there is mounting research that it is the type of oil used, and whether or not it has been used before, that really matters.
The latest study, published in the British Medical Journal, found no association between the frequency of fried food consumption in Spain – where olive and sunflower oils are mostly used – and the incidence of serious heart disease.
However, the British Heart Foundation warns not to “reach for the frying pan” yet, pointing out that the Mediterranean diet as a whole was healthier than ours.
Spanish researchers followed more than 40,000 people, two-thirds of whom were women, from the mid 1990s to 2004.
At the outset they asked them how often they ate fried foods, either at home or while out. They then looked to see whether eating fried foods regularly increased the likelihood of falling ill from having coronary heart disease, such as a heart attack or angina requiring surgery.
Dividing participants into four groups, from lowest fried food intake to highest, they found no significant difference in heart disease.
There were 606 incidents linked to heart disease in total, but they were split relatively evenly between the four groups.
The authors concluded: “In a Mediterranean country where olive and sunflower oils are the most commonly used fats for frying, and where large amounts of fried foods are consumed both at and away from home, no association was observed between fried food consumption and the risk of coronary heart disease or death.”
http://www.independent.ie/health/health-news/fried-food-heart-risk-a-myth-2999009.html
Please read my blog on ‘How does aeroplane fly’ to know how the so called Science misleads us.
