Even before my arteries get a vote on an egg mcmuffin, my stomach gets
in the first word with indigestion. If McDonald's or the like are my
only choice for breakfast, I buy one of the sausage and egg on biscuit
thingies and throw the biscuit away. Even then my stomach is often a
little upset -- the sausage probably has wierd stuff in it.

Liz

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>
> Why worry about inflammation of the arteries? This is a direct pathway
> to atherosclerosis and heart disease.
>
> The specific breakfast cited by the SUNY Buffalo researchers is a
> McDonald's Egg McMuffin, a Sausage McMuffin, and two orders of hash
> browns.
> Total calories: 930. (It was supersized to reflect the typical amount
> of calories in a fast food meal.) Eat this and within an hour, it will
> trigger inflammation, says study co-author Dr. Paresh Dandona. What's
> more that inflammation continues for three or four hours longer.
>