Eating fatty foods may cut heart attack damage in short run only

It is well known that in the long run, eating fatty foods is bad for you and can increase your risk of having a stroke or heart attack, but as per a new study, a high-fat diet may actually be beneficial to your health and help to reduce heart attack damage

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WKeith Jones of Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine said that the study improves the under-standing of the relationship between diet and health, adding leaning about how fat, in the short run, protects against heart attacks could help in the development of better therapies

The study, which is not a license to ‘eat a lot of cheeseburgers and ice cream, may provide new insight into the "obesity paradox": Obesity is a major risk factor for heart disease, but once a heart attack or heart failure does occur, moderately obese patients tend to live longer.