Big meals boost heart attack risk
From New Orleans, at a meeting of the American Heart Association
A heavy meal can dramatically increase a person’s risk of having a heart attack soon after eating, according to a new study. The risk increased 10-fold in the first hour following the oversized meal, reduced to 4-fold by the second, and was almost gone 3 hours later—all compared with the risk during the same period the day before, when some people in the study had eaten a normal meal.