{"id":3634,"date":"2008-03-10T22:19:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newth.net\/eirik\/2008\/03\/10\/the-face-of-health\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T22:19:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T21:19:25","slug":"the-face-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2008\/03\/10\/the-face-of-health\/","title":{"rendered":"The face of health&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href='http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eiriknewth\/2324444879\/'><img src='http:\/\/newth.net\/eirik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/2324444879_370503852b.jpg' border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/health.usnews.com\/usnews\/health\/healthday\/080221\/cats-help-shield-owners-from-heart-attack.htm\">this study<\/a>, having a cat (as we all know, we don&#8217;t own them) reduces your risk of a heart attack by almost a third:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cat owners &#8220;appeared to have a lower rate of dying from heart attacks&#8221; over 10 years of follow-up compared to feline-free folk, Qureshi said. The magnitude of the effect &#8212; a 30 percent reduction in heart attack risk &#8212; &#8220;was a little bit surprising,&#8221; he added. &#8220;We certainly expected an effect, because we thought that there was a biologically plausible mechanism at work. But the magnitude of the effect was hard to predict.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now take a look at the guy above, who is part of my work environment, and tell me that it isn&#8217;t so. I&#8217;m just wondering whether having <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tags\/adaoglinus\/\">two<\/a><\/i> means a 60 % reduction? \ud83d\ude09 (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/science.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=08\/03\/10\/0142258&#038;from=rss\">Slashdot<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to this study, having a cat (as we all know, we don&#8217;t own them) reduces your risk of a heart attack by almost a third: Cat owners &#8220;appeared to have a lower rate of dying from heart attacks&#8221; over&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2008\/03\/10\/the-face-of-health\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-katt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}