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American culture of fast food encourages stroke
In areas with high density of retail outlets of 'fast food' the number of attacks is greater brain
The lifestyle is essential to prevent heart attack and stroke, so much so that those who live in areas that are teeming with "fast-food tempting 'is most at risk of being sucked into the spiral of unhealthy behaviors that often accompany the' junk-food."
HARMFUL ATMOSPHERE - support and a study by the University of Michigan, presented at the International Stroke Conference in San Diego, whereby the people living in places with high concentration of retail of 'junk food' it has an increased risk of stroke. Not only is the classic burger to be harmful, but rather, in general, the culture of fast food, often a sign of lack of exercise, living in polluted and unhealthy life. And, in times of crisis, and despite the current anti-globalization rowing against the poor food (food poor) offered by all the big chains is again on the rise.
RESEARCH-In particular, according to data collected in a small town in Texas where they were observed and recorded 1,247 cases of stroke occurring between 2000 and 2003, each point of sale 'of the most famous fast-food chain in a 1 percent increase the risk of "cardiovascular event" for the surrounding population. The link between the number of fast food in circulation and the rate of stroke is both indirect and direct shows, statistically, that these fast food chains frequently used to hectic lifestyles and bad habits, even when the causal relationship is not straightforward. Not to mention that even the healthiest person in the world, living surrounded by fast food will certainly be more inclined to fall into temptation.
THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD HABITS - And speaking of bad rules of life want to point out a parallel UK study on the risk of stroke and heart attack that emphasizes vices and bad habits like bad duplicate the possibility of attacks. Researchers at the University of East Anglia have been monitoring a sample of 20 000 persons between 40 and 79 years diet, cutting off other variables that may affect the health, quantifying the relationship, obviously very close, which exists between "vices" of a part and the other stroke and heart attack. Who drinks, smokes, makes a sedentary lifestyle and eating disordered 2.3 has more chance of having a cardiovascular problem than those who lead a more regular basis.
Emanuela Di Pasqua
February 20, 2009
