More Fast-Food Joints in Neighborhoods Mean More Strokes

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Aboutdyayh of NY 6:11AM July 16, 2009

I would like to have my story published to encourage someone else, i had a stroke on October 29, 2007 was in a coma for four days and i am very pleased to say if you look at me you could never in yor wildest dream even recognize that i ever had a stroke if I did not tell you or anyone. i give all the glory and honor to God for my recovery, it pays to serve God.
Thanks,
Marvlyn

Marvlyn Cornelius of TX 1:31PM April 27, 2009

Guys don't give this study any credit. It's not worth your one cent. You can have statistics say whatever you want - It's a religion, not a science. You should rather wonder who financed this scam. That's more important than their conclusions.
Bear in mind that Correlation does NOT mean Causation!! That's what these would be statisticians cannot understand! I could have conducted the same study and concluded that because the neighborhood had a lot of concrete buildings, concrete is responsible for stroke and that would have been a valid conclusion in the statistical universe too!!!!

Statistician of CA 3:06PM February 22, 2009

Just like the study that found correlation between light or moderate alcohol intake and good health. They forgot to consider that really sick people don't drink. Brilliant!

Don O. of GA 1:04PM February 22, 2009

this gloom & doom kind of media going to give us a stroke

pj of AK 12:26PM February 22, 2009

Reading these comments is both fascinating and a little scaring to me. It is almost as if the great majority (not all) of the people making comments on this article have dropped in from the mid-to-late twentieth century (1900s) with, still, an ancient Aristotelian/Cartesian way of thinking - and an 18th-century database.

Kyle 11:34AM February 22, 2009

and they will tell you that while the causal link is not elucidated yet, a poorer demographic group with easy and convenient access to high fat and high calorie meals will absolutely correlate with increased incidence of cerebrovascular disease, coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, etc...
The macro influences here that go unspoken are poverty, culturally normalized acceptance of obesity and fast food diets, smoking, lack of access, no time for, or culturally de emphasized interest in physical fitness, etc..
This study only mentions one of the factors that contribute to a whole constellation of factors that ultimately equal these diseases manifesting across a population.
Poo-poo it if you want, but docs know it is a valid association.

Hugh Loeffler, MD of KY 11:17AM February 22, 2009

We pretty much know that fatty meat in large quantities is bad for us. We also know that fast food places serve large quantities of fatty meat. And we know that the more convenient it is to visit an establishment, the more likely that it will be visited. Ergo, . . .
The 'newsworthiness' of the study is disturbing. One recognizes that good science requires that studies like these be made and duly noted in the approriate journal; this study should have stayed in that journal.
TedG in Rumney

TedG of NH 9:09AM February 22, 2009

Why is everyone so negative? Sure the article was written badly - suggesting that simply living in a locale because of the high number of FF restaurants will give you a stroke. That doesn't make sense.
But try to think of some other perspectives: Cities that are unhealthy will be able to back up new laws limiting the number of fast food restaurants and incentivizing (is that a word?)more healthy eating locales with this research. They would be able to encourage more interesting small businesses to open.
There's another relationship all you people who think its so easy need to think about, "just eat right" "just exercise" just do this, just do that...Where do you think these cities are? They're usually the poorer ones, the ones where people don't have time, money, or know-how to eat right. All they know is they need to eat, their kids need to eat, they can't make the bills, and there's a $1 special where you can get a free kids meal too.

Chris of CA 1:29AM February 22, 2009

Seriously...Having greasy fast food joints in neighborhoods increases the risk of stroke? How profound. How much was spent on this study? It's studies like this that make me question the integrity of U.S. medicine.

J. Brown of NH 5:02PM February 21, 2009