WHAT CAUSES HEART DISEASES..

We physicians with all our training, knowledge 
and authority often acquire a rather large ego 
that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. 

I freely admit to being wrong.

The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol 
and a diet that severely restricted fat intake.

The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease.

 Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.It Is Not Working

These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible.

The discovery, a few years ago, that inflammation in the artery wall

is the real cause of heart disease…

 is slowly leading to a paradigm shift

in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated...

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality,

human suffering and dire economic consequences...

Despite the fact that…

t 25% of the population takes expensive

statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content 
of our diets,More Americans Will Die This Year Of Heart Disease Than Ever Before...

Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease,

20 million have diabetes and

57 million have pre-diabetes.

These disorders are affecting younger

and younger people in greater numbers

every year...Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body,

there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes.

Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended.

 It is inflammation that causes cholesterol

 to become trapped....

Inflammation is not complicated

¨it is quite simply your body’s natural defence¨ to a foreign invader 
such as a bacteria, toxin or virus.

The cycle of inflammation is perfect

in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders.

However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body

was never designed to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation.

Chronic inflammation is just as harmful

as acute inflammation is beneficial....

What thoughtful person would willfully

expose himself repeatedly

to foods or other substances that are known

to cause injury to the body?

Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully...

The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet

that is low in fat and high in

 polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates,

not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels.

This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.      

Let me repeat that: The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused

by the low fat diet recommended for years

by mainstream medicine...

What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation?

Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates

sugar, flour and all the products made from them  and the excess consumption

of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that 
are found in many processed foods...

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. ...

you kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury.

This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now....

Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall.

Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation....While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war.

Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades.

These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.

How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation
 to make you sick ?    

Imagine spilling syrup on your.. keyboard

and you have a visual of what occurs

inside the cell.

When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. 
In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is 
to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy.

If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works. When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing 

more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat. What does all this have to do with inflammation ?

Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules 
attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall.

This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation.

When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there

Let’s get back to the sweet roll.

That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one 
of many omega-6 oils such as soybean.

Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life.

While omega-6′s are essential

-they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in 
and out of the cell — they must be in the correct balance with omega-3.

If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats.The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal and healthy..To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar.The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease,High Blood Pressure, Diabetes And Finally, Alzheimer’s Disease, As The Inflammatory process continues unabated.

There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day.The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.

There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state.

To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such

 As Colorful Fruits And Vegetables.

Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.

One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg.

Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef...Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated.

Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades.

The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent.

The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak.

Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, 
the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today....

The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn

 created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation.

Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake 

when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats.

We now have an epidemic

of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers...

What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served 

and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods.

By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.