Fatty heart is reversible with weight loss
Submitted by Michelle Miller on Friday, 3 November 2006No Comment
Eat too much fat and it clogs up your arteries.
But did you know the more weight you put on your hips the more fat that goes directly to your heart?
Kathleen Parker looks like any other mom trying to keep pace with a 5 year old.
But 18 months ago it was a very different story.
“You get hot very easily when you have that much excess weight,” she said. “You have a lot of foot pain, knee pain, ankle pain.”
Before bariatric surgery, “I think I was wearing size 22 or 24 there,” Parker said.
A family history of heart disease on her dad’s side weighed in on her decision to get help losing weight.
“His father died of a massive heart attack at 40 years old, so I was worried with all the extra weight that could happen to me,” Parker said.
