Part 3 of the consecutive posts/days with a health-related story. I'll soon have rename the damn site & 1 Thing.
A new review shows that while obesity is the cause of heart disease, obese heart patients live longer than lean patients and respond better to treatment. And lest you object with "one study does not a fact make," take note: It's a phenom that has its own name: it's called the obesity paradox and "study after study has shown that obese heart patients have better survival and have fewer strokes and heart attacks than normal-weight or underweight heart patients with the same severity of disease." This is all relevant to yesterday's post and resulting comment. It might be the case that lean people who get heart disease have some deeper, more troubling heart problem than self-imposed "obese" heart disease and that's why they don't react to treatment as well. Or it could be something else. Either way, I think it demonstrates the folly of trying to micromanage such things. Throw out the microscale - individualized issues/choices - even on the macro scale "common sense" doesn't always rule.
Good news for green tea, though not so much for drinkers as for growers... EGCG may be the missing ingredient for an anti-HIV gel. Me thinks this will somehow end up in green tea advertising, probably not on the tea itself, but on some cream containing it. Though the "green tea in every product imaginable" phase has seemingly past us now.
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