Man suffers heart attack while eating at Heart Attack Grill

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39. Heart attacks are usually caused by coronary artery disease.

Coronary artery disease is caused mainly by diet coupled with a predisposition to CAD. CAD is not caused by exercise. When a person has a heart attack while exercising it is usually because they have CAD and plaque in their artery has ruptured and is blocking blood flow. So while on the surface it is ironic for someone who is exercising to have a heart attack, many people who exercise have poor diets and might be exercising to manage their heart disease. So if you look at it that way, it's not really that ironic at all if someone has a heart attack while exercising.

However, eating something that is named after a medical procedure people get for heart disease, a triple bypass, and having a heart attack while eating it is ironic.

And while one large meal will not give you heart disease (CAD is from years of eating a poor diet), a large high-fat meal can cause a heart attack if you already have heart disease. In fact, one large meal that is high in fat, like the triple bypass burger, quadruples a person's chances of having a heart attack within two hours of eating it.