The Diet Logs

What should you do after you’ve polished off a high-fat meal?

Wait an hour or two, then get a little exercise, and you can reverse the potential damage to your arteries, a new study suggests.

That’s right — and not ’sweaty’ exercise: more along the lines of taking a walk or two around the block.

After a fatty meal, arteries lose their ability to expand in response to an increase in blood flow. The effect peaks four to six hours after eating — usually just in time for your next meal. So, four hours after a fatty meal, your arteries look like those of a person with heart disease.

But moderate exercise should help counteract the effects of a fatty meal… a good thing to keep in mind, now that the holiday season is coming up…

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Nancy wrote this on August 31st, 2006 and filed it under Diet Logs, Healthy Eating, Weight Loss |