Women’s Health

“Go, eat the food with joy,” says the Bible in Ecclesiastes 9:7. Eating, in fact, is not only necessary but also one of the greatest pleasures of life.

Consider the 34-year-old Thomas. He has his meat. And he has every day, often several times a day. His typical breakfast includes milk, more eggs, bread or toast with butter and bacon or sausage smothered. In fast food places he orders cheeseburgers, fries and shakes. When dining out, he chooses a steak as an aperitif. Your favorite restaurant serving a 24-oz [680 g] steak and a baked potato heaped with sour cream, as he likes it. Chocolate cake covered with chocolate ice cream is his favorite dessert.

Thomas is five feet ten inches [178 cm] in length and weighs 196 pounds [89 kg], it is 20 pounds [9 kg] overweight, according to 1995 U.S. government dietary guidelines. “I’m not happy with my weight,” says Thomas. “My health is excellent. I lost a day’s work over the past 12 years. Most times, I feel well and energetic, but, of course, after eating a 24-oz [680 g] beef.”

Thomas diet could be affecting the worse for him, slowly, making him a candidate for a heart attack? In his book How we die, Dr. Sherwin Nuland talks about “patterns of people who are suicidal and cover them with a diet of red meat, big slabs of bacon and butter.”


How certain foods leads to heart disease in many? What is for those who cause danger? Before discussing these issues, we have a closer look to health risks are overweight.