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[–] 10 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Isn't angina a throat infection? Caused by Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria? I'm vegetarian and all, but really can't see the connection from meat to angina and I have recently had angina without eating meat lol

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (6 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angina

    Angina, in full angina pectoris, is chest pain or pressure, usually caused by insufficient blood flow to the heart muscle (myocardium).[2] It is most commonly a symptom of coronary artery disease.[2]

    Meat does not cause angina, cardiovascular issues are caused by inflammation and elevated insulin levels (caused by carbs).

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  • [–] 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Oh sorry, a language thing then! In my native tongue "angiina" is a throat infection, that usually requires antibiotics. But good to learn that it's whole other thing in English language!

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    I wonder whether the two words are related, whether English took a Latin word from generic pain and repurposed it for a very specific pain

    Anyway it's a commonly known word in English because the common diet causes heart disease so we hear about angina from elderly relatives

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (1 child)

    Must be vessel-inflammation or something similar in latin. Angiogenesis -> blood vessel formation (angio being blood vessel), -ina is a suffix for inflammation, therefore angina -> blood vessel inflammation

    This is speculative from my working knowledge of some biological terms, I haven't looked up the etymology (yet)

    edit after google:

    1. there are many medical anginas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angina_(disambiguation)

    2. I was right for the wrong reasons. The etymology is greek: ankhonē "a strangling". Originally it referred to the aforementioned throat infection in english, then evolved into chest pain. https://www.etymonline.com/word/angina

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago

    I looked it up, English used to use it for strep throat or tonsillitis. Then 'angina of the chest' was used and since we have other words for strep throat and tonsillitis angina came to exclusively mean heart pain

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    carbs do not cause inflammation nor raised insulin. Source?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 weeks ago

    carbs do not cause inflammation nor raised insulin. Source?

    Carbs are just glucose in different forms, every g of carbs you eat hits your blood stream as glucose... the body tightly regulates blood glucose levels with insulin... so yes, every carb you eat increases your insulin directly and for hours.

    You can see this by lookup up insulin dosing guidelines for diabetics - it is directly related to their carbohydrate intake.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)
  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    Yeah, the common diet isn't good for your heart

    My local fried chicken place has a heart foundation tick for their low salt deep fried chicken sandwiches. I think the heat foundation isn't up on the latest heart health research

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  • [–] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

    Please speak plainly, it helps us to understand you better, especially with text. Where else can angina occur?

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (6 children)

    all carbs get turned into serum glucose, glucose drives insulin, elevated insulin wrecks havoc with your cardiovascular system.

    i love this meme, they are making fun of meat eaters, but they were not wrong.. it originally said fruit... which isn't wrong..... sometimes irony swings all the way around to truth.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    Not all of the carbs, fructose (half of cane sugar) is converted to body fat

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  • [–] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    glucose is literally fuel for your brain. It's not bad. Eating raises your insulin levels sometimes because your body needs to process food

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago

    glucose is literally fuel for your brain.

    It can be used as brain fuel, but the brain can also run on fat with less glycation end productions and low insulin.

    It’s not bad.

    Naturally regulated serum blood glucose is fine, consuming dietary glucose (including all carbs) is the problem - they drive insulin, which over a long enough period of time impacts the blood brain barrier with insulin resistance... people's brains literally are drowning in a sea of glucose they can't use because the insulin isn't arriving... fat does not have this problem.

    Not to mention type 2 diabetes requires elevated blood glucose, a condition of glucose intolerance.

    Eating raises your insulin levels sometimes because your body needs to process food

    it's only "sometimes" if you don't eat carbs, if you eat carbs it's every time. This is how type 2 diabetes develops.

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