Study serves health warning on full Irish breakfast

THE full Irish breakfast — a staple meal at every B&B — should carry a health warning, according to research.

Study serves health warning on full Irish breakfast

Eating just one Irish breakfast, or any other high-fat meal increases the risk of heart attack because it increases the stiffness of blood vessel walls by 10%.

Professor Ian You ng, Professor of Medicine at Queen’s University Belfast, who was involved in the research, said whenever a healthy person ate a high-fat meal, there was a temporary increase in the stiffness of the blood vessels.

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