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Subject: Fw: Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake! - Oils, Carbo and Cholesterol
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>>>>Subject:
>>>> Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake! - Oils, Carbo
>>>> and
>>>> Cholesterol
>>>>To:
>>>>Date: Friday, 12 March, 2010,
>>>> 10:03 AM
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>>>>Without inflammation,
>>>> cholesterol would not accumulate in wall of
>>>> blood
>>>>vessel and cause heart
>>>> disease
>>>>
>>>>Heart Surgeon Admits Huge
>>>> Mistake!
>>>>
>>>>By Dwight Lundell, MD
>>>>
>>>>Part 1 of
>>>> a 2-part article (see part 2 below)
>>>>
>>>>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.. As a heart
>>>>surgeon with 25
>>>> years experience, having performed over 5,000
>>>> open-heart
>>>>surgeries, today is my day to right the
>>>> wrong with medical and
>>>>scientific fact.
>>>>
>>>>I
>>>> trained for many years with other prominent
>>>> physicians
>>>> labeled
>>>>"opinion makers." Bombarded with
>>>> scientific literature, continually
>>>>attending
>>>> education seminars, we opinion makers insisted
>>>> heart
>>>> disease
>>>>resulted from the simple fact of elevated
>>>> blood cholesterol.
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>> 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 defense 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 that has been
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>In Part 2 of
>>>> this two-part article, I'll discuss which foods
>>>> cause
>>>>inflammation, how those foods trigger the
>>>> inflammatory process, and the
>>>>foods to eat that
>>>> will cure inflammation.
>>>>
>>>>Part 2
>>>>by Dwight
>>>> Lundell MD 02/06/2009
>>>>
>>>>Take a moment to
>>>> visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over
>>>> soft
>>>>skin until it becomes quite red and nearly
>>>> bleeding.
>>>>Let's say 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. I saw it
>>>>in over
>>>> 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all
>>>> shared one
>>>>common denominator - inflammation in
>>>> their arteries.
>>>>
>>>>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's.
>>>>
>>>>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 6,940mg.
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>[Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight
>>>> Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief
>>>> of
>>>>Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital, Mesa, AZ. His
>>>> private practice,
>>>>Cardiac Care Center was in Mesa,
>>>> AZ. Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery
>>>>to focus on
>>>> the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He is
>>>> the
>>>>founder of Healthy Humans Foundation that
>>>> promotes human health with a
>>>>focus on helping large
>>>> corporations promote wellness. He is the author
>>>>of
>>>> The Cure for Heart Disease and The Great
>>>> Cholesterol
>>>> Lie
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