How many times have you heard a meal of red meat, butter, eggs or other saturated fat-laden foods called “artery clogging” or “a recipe for a heart attack?” What if we have it all wrong and those fatty meals are actually protecting our hearts in the event of an attack? That seems to be the message from a laboratory study from the University of Cincinnati which shows that short-term, high-fat “splurges” in your diet could trigger cardio-protective properties during a heart attack. The study was funded in part by the National Institutes of Health and it findings were presented  at the Experimental Biology Meeting sponsored by the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.  It found that animals fed a high-fat regimen for a short-term achieved cardio-protection against myocardial infarction (heart attack) and suffered less cardiac tissue damage. According to the primary researcher, Lauren Haar, a doctoral student in the …