Yes, watching soccer can actually kill you... and not just from boredom!
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Hey, here's a soccer post that's not really about soccer at all.
For those of you who don't regularly read the New England Journal of Medicine, you are missing out on some of the most comprehensive review articles on current trends in medicine! More importantly, you probably didn't catch this little piece.
Recent research during the 2006 World Cup suggests that men may have two to three times the risk of having a myocardial infarction ("heart attack" for you ignorant lay folk), arrhythmia ("abnormal heart rhythm"), or cardiac emergency ("a really bad heart problem that needs pretty quick attention") on the days that their favorite soccer team plays. Moreover, most of those heart problems actually seemed to occur during the game.
The take-home lesson? I don't know. I'm not a doctor yet. I'm just a media commentator (this blog qualifies as media, right?) with some medical background... kinda like a young Sanjay Gupta.
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Let's face it: death, suffering, sour milk, crying babies, slow internet, srinkage, and droopage are all caused by soccer.
"Until all futball fans are converted to football fandom, darkness and evil will reign supreme over all the world" so sayith the Spider.
I'll preface this by saying that I have heard of this, and I don't doubt it.
To be fair, let's look at the sample size here. People in Munich on days that the German team was playing.
So Bavarians living on a diet of beer, sausages, and German chocolate are more likely to have heart attacks when faced with stressful situations? Never.
I will say though that soccer (and sport in general) has driven me to the bottle a number of times*, so maybe there's something to it.
*- both for winning and losing. I may have a problem.
For us ignorant lay folk, what did you mean by "abnormal"? Or "heart"?
You're gonna have to dumb it down a little more.
Doesn't ya'll mean to be speakn' ignent, like dem der folks whos ain't gots no class. Y'ain't no never been no way dat ingnent, nos ways nos hows
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