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Why I deleted that post. . .

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by Carolyn Thomas   ❤️   Heart Sisters (on Blue Sky)

Some of my longtime Heart Sisters  readers may recall my other blog called The Ethical Nag: Marketing Ethics for the Easily Swayed.  I started The Nag in 2009, shortly after my post-heart attack launch of Heart Sisters. (Not one but TWO websites? I must have had a lot of recuperation time on my hands back then!)

My Heart Sisters blog is about my true obsession – women and heart disease (which, by the way, kills more women each year than all forms of cancer combined).  But in those early days, I was also writing about other issues that somehow didn’t quite fit Heart Sisters. So The Nag became a home for those other posts – but it was one specific article that ultimately made me pull the  plug:
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Finally! The truth about what causes women’s heart attacks!

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by Carolyn Thomas  ♥   @HeartSisters

Finally, scientists have definitive numbers proving the clear link between our diet and heart attacks.  It’s a relief to know the truth after all those conflicting nutritional studies.

1. Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than North Americans do.

2. Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than their North American counterparts.

3. Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than North Americans.

4. Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than North Americans.

5. Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats, and suffer fewer heart attacks than North Americans.

CONCLUSION:

Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.

I laughed out loud when I first heard this, but it also, sadly, reinforces for me the dilemma of interpreting all cardiac research. Continue reading “Finally! The truth about what causes women’s heart attacks!” →