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Scientists living under an oppressive regime decide to clinically study the founders and supporters of evil regimes to determine what common factor is at play in the rise and propagation of man's inhumanity to man.
I hope that within twenty years, coronary bypass surgery will be as discredited as pre-frontal lobotomies.
This article follows exactly what Gary Taubes has written in "Why We Get Fat".
I had a six-tuple bypass operation to save my useless life, two years ago. It was the worst experience anyone could endure; I would never inflict it on anyone I care about. From what I've read, I seem to have got off easy compared to other people's experiences!
The doctors can't honestly tell us how bad it will be, because we'd all opt out.
What infuriates me is the total lack of effort made by my doctors to investigate WHY I ended up on their operating table. All of my friends and family are mystified, asking how this happened. In fact, I would have died in a few more days. I don't smoke, I'm not overweight, and I exercise enough to kill most ordinary people.
All the doctors have done is prescribe meds that don't work, and then get angry when I won't take them. I haven't seen a single blood test result that might give me a clue.
Perhaps you should change your diet, as this is the only thing that could make a difference?
That sounds horrible... !
Please look into the "paleo" solution (robb wolf) / primal blueprint (mark sission @ marksdailyapple.com) / bulletproofexec (dave asprey) / chris kresser... there are others but I feel these would be a great starting point if you are truly interested in why we are in this mess as western society.
Since finding these kinds of information I feel I understand exactly why we are in terrible health and have cured all my health problems (and dropped 100lbs) in the process. Endurance exercise is also a huge risk factor in heart health and if you are partaking in that kind of exercise still (or wish to in the future) I would advise you to look into it as it is horrendous for cardiovascular health.
Good luck,
There's no profit in selling real food because you can't automate the production of it enough.
Eating real food requires hiring people to go out and pick it for you, or else growing and picking it yourself.
If we all went back to eating real food, what a game changer that would be for our post-industrial utopia!
Similar problem with modern electronics. You can only make money selling gadgets if you can manufacture them for about a tenth of what it would cost to make them in the US.
But seriously: It's about time that we get real about life, the way this doctor has begun to do.
If this planet and its inhabitants are going to survive for very much longer, all the paradigms built up by the Europe-centered make-a-profit-by-ripping-someone-off way of life are going to have to be torn apart and re-examined.
I don't say that all our beliefs and ways of operating will have to change. But our ways of choosing what to believe and how to act certainly will.
My 25-year-old nephew is visiting Indonesia. He is going to places that are mostly rural, where people still work their own farm plots - by hand. Through his photos he shows me a way of life that is more difficult and less material than many of us in the US and Europe are used to. But it is also more honest and more spiritually rich.
And those are valuable aspects of life we can't survive without.
The doc is correct about inflammation, but even eating a 100% raw grass-fed Paleo diet for over a decade did NOT resolve my inflammatory conditions.
There are intracellular bacteria which have no cell walls that can invade the body's own phagocytes and disrupt the immune system, in particular, Vitamin D metabolism. And no, taking Vitamin D does no good, even though it may palliate symptoms, it's just like throwing fuel on the fire.
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Yeah, eliminating ALL grains and probably all legumes and plant seeds in general will go a long way. As well, try eliminating all dairy for a while, and then only eat ghee and/or maybe butter if you don't immediately get an inflammatory reaction after reintroduction. Also have you tried colloidal silver for your bacterial infection? There's a particularly effective type of "nano-silver hydro sol" products at lifesilver.com that are very wide spectrum antimicrobial and are supposed to kill even "L bacteria" / mycoplasma that other silver colloids may not. (They also have scientific studies confirming the effectiveness for many different situations at the site).
Also eating raw meat may not be as good as cooked and has the danger of being constantly reinfected by microbes / parasites, although these are much less in extent in grass-fed meat. In any case, cooked meat (and food in general) has higher energy density than raw and is more digestible according to several studies.
Yes, Niall, I have eaten no grains (or beans or diary or vegetable oil of any kind) since 1996.
Re raw meat: Cooked meat is devoid of important enzymes such as protease (for digesting protein) and lipase (for digesting fat), thus forcing the body to make its own enzymes to digest it, putting an additional burden on the pancreas as well as the body's energy stores. Having years of experience eating both cooked and raw meats and fats, I can tell you the notion about cooked meat (and especially fat) being "more digestible" is completely ass-backwards--raw meat and (especially) raw fat are infinitely more digestible and promote a higher level of functional energy as well as immune enhancement.
Studies have also shown that cooking meat actually pushes the bacteria within it to convert to the L-form in order to survive.
Once the L-form bacteria begin colonizing your phagocytes and disabling them (by disabling your Vitamin D metabolism), you're on the road toward chronic inflammatory disease. The inflammation comes from the body's attempt to go after the invaders, but it is unable to dislodge them due to the L-form bacteria's protective mechanism of subverting the innate immune system. For more, see:
Thank you for the link to lifesilver.com, SeekinTruth. I'll check it out.
Did either or you check out my link?
Here's the site map, which you may find easier to navigate:
Have you looked into Jack Kruse? Some people think hes a quack too, but I've read some very interesting things on there that make quite a bit of sense to me at least.
Epi-Paleo is basically Paleo with more of a seafood focus due to various reasons outlined in the blog posts.
There are quite a few blogs on a variety of topics. The articles on Cold Thermogenesis or CT might be of some interest. He also has a forum where you could post and ask what people think. He responds to threads sometimes...though occasionally he can be cryptic. Hes a bit odd with his speech at times for sure. I'm not that great at it either though so whatever.
This pod cast of Jimmy Moore's has a fat expert that talks about an ApoE genetic test which according to him at least depending on the result could have something to do with your issue.
He basically outlines that those with an ApoE result of 3/4 or 4/4 could get inflammation from animal fats not including fish. He said it was 20% of the population though I'm not sure where that number comes from. It might be something you want to check though.
If you wish to quickly clear your body of pathogenic bacteria, check this out [Link]
Casts some doubt on the validity of this doesn't it?
This may cast doubt on the validity of the other as well.
I think the evidence speaks for itself regardless of the mouthpiece. A low-fat, high carbohydrate diet hasn't really improved things over the years.
Actually no, anytime QW attacks something, it makes me more interested. It is well known that QW is a front for "mainstream" medicine and tries to discredit anything other than status quo. Barrett himself is joke and I don't trust a word he says. The doctor is merely suggesting a diet much like the Primal Blueprint or Paleo movement, which science supports. There is nothing crazy here and the research supports it all.
Quackwatch is a quack. He's not even in medicine or nutrition and he thinks he's all-knowing. Where is his money coming from, I'd like to know. Just another big pharma front. How about we actually look at what this heart surgeon is talking about and do some research on our own to decide whether it makes sense or not.
I think the problem is best summed up by this video; [Link] The 'appeal to authority' is a logical fallacy.
Just because you disagree with Stephen Barrett on other things *doesn't make his analysis wrong*. If you're interested in truth, you are forced to examine the evidence and criticisms based on their merit alone, not the messenger. So far, what I can see of the criticisms of Barrett, none of them dealt with anything substantial in regards to his conclusions, only some of his credentials. One could argue that the same is true of Dr. Lundell, except that there are strong counterarguments, and seemingly evidence of some not-so-wonderful reprimands from the medical community, which, devoid of evidence, cannot simply be dismissed as "Well, the mainstream medical community is trying to silence him!!", which is an intellectually lazy catch-all argument.
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One doesn't need to use extravagant language to argue, nor to prove a point. The point being, "Well, the mainstream medical community is trying to silence him!!". This is truth, no matter how you state it. The truth can be very simple. Why would the mainstream medical community agree with this Dr.??? This would mean a loss of millions of dollars! "Educated" people attempt to make this harder than it is. Follow the money trail.....that's always a tell tale sign.
most of his quoted "misdeeds" on the QW website pertain to his alleged incorrect record keeping and management of patients. well, according to whose standards? of course the established medical profession's. so they basically penalized him for breaking the old boys' club rules. it sounds like a classic witch hunt to me. "let's just find something on him to put him out of business and shut him up."
plus the fact that he at least tried not to pay the unconstitutional income tax really makes him a hero in my book ...
"How about we actually look at what this heart surgeon is talking about and do some research on our own to decide whether it makes sense or not."
That sounds like a great idea to me! Only I don't have to do the research, because I've already done it. In fact, I've been living it for about a year now, and the difference has been nothing short of extraordinary.
It's like that website, snopes. Everybody wants someone else to do all the work for them, and give them the answer. Hell, isn't that what got us into this mess in the first place? That people didn't want to think for themselves? Do their own homework? And thus, they just bought into whatever BS they were fed by "authorities"?
Well, guess what? The times, they are achangin'!
I posted this below and will add it here since I just discovered how to do that!
If you'd dig a little deeper about the license revocation, you'd find that he retired in 2003 and was not practicing medicine. In 2009, the Arizona Medical Board went after him in retirement because of his books and speeches about inflammation causing heart disease and his outspoken stance against statins. They looked at 8 years of patients prior to 2003. Even though he had one of the highest success rates of cardiothoracic surgeons in Arizona, they callously revoked the license of a retired surgeon. As if that wasn't enough, they issued a Press Release announcing it. He was the only surgeon whose license was revoked to have a Press Release issued about it. The intent and message was very clear. Don't speak out against pharmaceutical companies or conventional medicine if you want to keep your license.
Barrett hates anything that isn't 100% traditional, old-school medical thinking. Plus, as pointed out by another readers, his credentials are rather suspect.
It only casts doubt on your investigative abilities. Barrett has long been the champion of mainstream pseudo-science. He has been defeated in court on many occasions, by those he has maliciously defamed, but still he persists. Someone is paying him well.
Even beyond the food we ingest I think it is really, really important to stop ignoring that everything in our environment has always affected the production of our food. I really enjoy reading the Gerson Treatment, they really go into the affects of environmental affects ie: pollution, heavy metals and chlorine and fluoride in our drinking water etc etc etc, the soil! I think even before we're born we've already be contaminated and then there is vaccination has become more and more ridiculous. But I am a little conflicted within because I want to believe it is all up to chance why some are more susceptible to chronic disease than others because a perfectly 'healthy eater' for live can suddenly be HIT with something so out of the blue, while others who live completely terrible lifestyles out live the healthy?? What is up with that right? All of this stuff is so curious for me as I'm going through the mysteries of my eczema situation, currently on my 3rd day of water fast. So far so good.
Getting our needed nutrients from fresh produce is no longer possible, not like when "grandma" was around. Our soil is depleted and the atmosphere is toxic. In order for us to achieve optimal health we need to add pharmaceutical grade supplements like anti-oxidants and minerals to our diet. www.klpurvis.usana.com.
And, from what I understand from Dr. Ladd McNamara, LDL cholesterol isn't 'bad' cholesterol. We need it to do its job. It is only 'bad' when it is oxidated or 'inflammed'. www.laddmcnamara.com/cholesterol-conspiracy.html.
Enough brainwashing the masses to buy Buy BUY things we don't need. It's all Scare Tactics to make a buck.
Is our soil depleted? Only a non-farmer or some bureaucrat reading University papers and selecting the ones that fit their agenda would state that? Any farmer knows that rotating is the time honoured (going back centuries) manner to ensure that the earth can produce food. Most farmers are "in tune" with their land and only add what fertilizers are required to "revitalize" the earth to provide optimum growing conditions for their crops. Depleted? Hardly. Managed? Yes.
Yes, our atmosphere is toxic. Pure Oxygen is a toxic, and corrosive gas. Yet we breath it. Same with the thousands of other elements in the air that at one time came from forest fires and volcanic eruptions. Even today, there are thousands upon thousands of gas-releasing vents, blowing off poisonous and very hot gasses every second of every day. Yet we are still here. I read somewhere that in 2010, only 1/100th of 1% of our atmosphere has near surface areas that cannot support human life. Most of these are in the caldera's of active volcanoes. I imagine the rest are in large cities like LA, Peking, London, etc. Still not a large surface area considering the total surface area of the earth.
We need to do is to stop adding high-grade chemicals to our bodies.
We need to do is to eat a proper and balance meal, hopefully one NOT out of a package.
We have turned our backs on the simple act of preparing meals from scratch - 3 x each day.
Once we start pushing for more Organic Farming, restricting GM foods and grains - get back to the classical seed stock, and start promoting personal fitness - even if it is a simple walk around the block after meals to aid digestion - then we should see a reverse trend appearing.
I think that is the Global message that Dr. Lundell is trying to pass on.
I am not a doctor, scientist or researcher. I am a "user", handicapped by accident, but overweight because of poor diet (junk/fast food). Simply cooking 3 squares a day from raw ingredients is THE quickest (and Natural) way to lose weight - if not only because one is a bad cook. I disagree that what we need to do is to pump yet even more "pharmaceutical grade" junk into our bodies. Let's let nature do it's work - its our job to ensure what enters our bodies is natural and not "super-refined". Even too much oxygen will kill us very quick. So is too much of a "good thing" like "supplements".
Thanks for posting the article, and all the comments.
Stay healthy.
Dwight Lundell M.D.
Perhaps the most under-recognized source of heart disease is "the other second-hand smoke." "Wood smoke is the fastest-growing form of pollution in most American communities," (EPA) and has been implicated
in Sudden Heart Death, stroke, asthma, cancer, diabetes. Yet, shockingly, there is essentially no regulation to reduce this very hazardous pollutant.
Something my mother might believe. A well written, easy to understand explaination as to how processed food is killing us. I do not understand why so many still resist that eating the way our great grandparents did is the way to go for good health.
Thank you!
To Bluenorther and Rawtruth: after much reading about why some people aren't healthy even when they eat a good diet, I discovered the Bloodtype diet. This was an "ah ha!" moment for me. Check out "The Answer is in Your Type" or "Eat Right 4 Your Type", and after these check out "The Genotype Diet". This books give compelling reasons as to why there are different bloodtypes and why each type needs a different diet. This explains a great deal as to why some people do great on one diet while others don't. Fascinating and important reading. The changes I made helped my health immensely.
I believe in time the medical community will come to understand that we all aren't as alike as we think we are. I think some day, doctors will learn that bloodtype--or even further--genotype will be taken into account when one needs care, and suggestions of diet, lifestyle, exercise plan and even medications will be tailored to fit each individual. Instead of insisting that everybody should eat the same diet, or have the same exercise plan, we will someday come to know that we all need something different.
Specifically regarding Dr. Lundell's article, it hits the nail on the head. I have been reading for years that inflammation is at the heart of all disease, not a symptom of it.
We are slowly but surely realizing that the processed food we're eating is killing us. Look at the whole foods, healthy foods and organic foods movements have emerged in the last few years. We're getting it. It just takes time.
--Best health to all!
I've been impressed with the science and results that people have experienced in lowering the body's level of inflammation as measured by lowering the CRP by drinking a beverage made from the mangosteen fruit. Lots of research about this.
The mangosteen is an exotic fruit from SE Asia and is available to American consumers as a beverage.
Jim Kosglow
go ahead and read about it - [Link]you will find not that he is a careless professional that got what he deserved - but a surgeon doing very complicated high risk procedures with some fatalities. The whole debate about the ice slushing is suspect. It is very commonn for dr;s to write extremely brief notes - his defense is 100% VALID. There are not enough hours in the day and it was so standard to use an ice flushing that is was not recorded. I would think the nurses on staff would have been able to testify but that is not what the prosecution went with. They had no evidence that he did or didn't use an ice flush and went through this lengthy run around at why they decided he had not. It was a guilty by omission prosecution. These lawsuits are what drive the industry to dust. All you need is to have bad health - bad luck and a lawyer that likes to make money chasing ambulances. The case does not reflect a careless individual. I happen to be on a program that follows what he says and I feel great and am losing weight easily.
As soon as I read the word "inflammation" I knew Dr. Lundell was leading into a food allergy discussion, even if he did not say it outright. Humans were not meant to eat a good many foods, and they certainly weren't meant to eat synthetic chemicals. I have pointed out to family (captive audience) that this country does everything it can to have beautiful lawns everywhere, thousands of miles of unused farmable property while food costs are out the roof. I spent years working for one of the nation's largest medical teaching institutions (tertiary - teaching, treatment and research), all the while learning about how medicine really works and how it is "sold to customer." Humans are also not meant to eat cooked foods. The proper diet would be unsatisfying. When people start demanding what is healthy from food producers at a reasonable cost, there will be new laws established to make sure that people are once again dependent upon Big Food Corps. They will make sure of it.
It's too late to take back what has been stolen from us.
The Paleo / Primal diet -- high saturated animal fat / very low carbs -- is by far the best and fastest way to good health. Grass-fed animals are what we thrive on. Making the transition to ketosis (fat burning metabolism) is a bit tricky and individual. But this radical change is most worth it.
People should read the science and understand why and how to transition to lasting health and optimal mind/body functioning. Especially read the books "Primal Body, Primal Mind" by Nora Gedgaudas; "Life Without Bread" by Dr. Wolfgang Lutz and Christian B. Allan; "The Vegetarian Myth" by Lierre Kieth; "The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living" by Volek and Phinney; "The Fiber Menace" by Monastyrsky; and maybe "The New Atkins for a New You" by Westman, Phinney, and Volek. There are many others but these have some very important info on the HOWS as well as the whys. And there are thousands and thousand of scientific papers (cited in these books and elsewhere) to give the solid scientific foundation for what so many of us have confirmed experimentally for ourselves and shared our results and experiences with each other.
Thousands of people from around the world on the forum of this site alone have greatly improved their health, vitality and energy levels by transitioning to this diet and making adjustments for individual differences.
The Blood type diet has turned out not to be so valid because many in this community who are supposed to avoid meat are actually thriving on an almost all meat diet.
After a long time now of eating almost only meat and fat, I agree. Vegetables and most things that are the staples of common diets do not even feel like food - meat and fat does.
Fat is immensely satisfying - a lack of it can make me both hungry and thirsty, and feeling like something is missing - and cause all manner of cravings. I only have to remember what I ate back when, years ago, I was a vegetarian - the very opposite of a healthy diet; with lots of sugar, sweets, "delicacies" - substitutes.
It always felt like something was missing in my food - it was never fully satisfying; with good fat, the problems ends - no cravings, no need for "variety", for sweetening, for spicing - at last, the food simply does what it is supposed to.
what kind of drugs are you on? Vegetables are disgusting? that's where ALL your nutrients and micros are at! If you eating greasy pork you are beyond all hope...
I have recently written a blog on this article:
Now we know what really causes heart disease according to a heart surgeon who recently wrote an article on the internet about this extremely important and delicate subject. The author, Doctor Dwight Lundell is an experienced heart surgeon who claims he has gained understanding of the underlying cause of atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease by looking at the inside of patients arteries. He has seen with his own eyes how the food we eat damages the inside of our arteries and causes inflammation....
You can see my blog here:
This is a wonderful article and I thank you so much for the truth being exposed. To heal the physical, we must also address the emotional aspect and anger is inflammatory. So if our heart is inflamed, stored anger is part of the problem. To be healthy, the heart NEEDS to feel love, compassion, understanding and forgiveness. If we choose to deny ourselves those feelings and instead fill our heart with anger, hatred and/or jealousy, inflammation will eventually result. Add to those emotions the foods that aggravate the heart and heart disease is waiting to happen.
We keep thinking there is ONE thing that we need to worry about. Inflammation is one sign of imbalance and is not the whole root cause of all evil. Within 10 years, there will be a new boogeyman and inflammation will be relegated to where it should be- as merely one piece of the puzzle.
Approximately six months ago after 17 years as a vegetarian who was struggling with hypertension, weight, and pre-diabetic levels of blood sugar, I did the opposite of my doctor's advice and began to ingest a high fat, no wheat, low carbohydrate, and sugar diet. In those six months I have lost 50 pounds, reduced my blood pressure to the low/normal range and the skin problems I have struggled with since pueberty dissapeared. I feel more energetic and my blood sugar has returned to normal. I recommend reading the book "Wheat Belly" to those who are interested in the mechanism that causes gluten to inflame the body and why we all should stay away from wheat at all costs.
Same for me. Normal blood pressure, and no more blood sugar swings. Also, with low-carb/high-fat, I don't even feel hungry any more. I know when to eat when my body needs fuel. For the first time, I no longer feel like I'm a total slave to food. It's a lovely feeling. Did I mention that 1 workout is now equivalent to 3 in terms of building muscle strength and endurance?
Dr. Lundell´s article has received phenomenal attention and it has caught the eye of the news media. It touches on a number of important issues concerning cardiovascular disease in general. To me the article unfortunately appears a bit like it is written by a preacher or a politician who has to sell a message whatever the costs. The article lacks the professional approach of a scientist who carefully examines available scientific data before drawing conclusions.
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Grandma's food doesn't exist any more and most of the "Frankenfoods" that do, have unknown amino acids in them, they are foreign to our bodies so we can't digest them, thus, welcome the inflation back again!!
I have spoken out against Refined products for years but, now the alternative is Frankenfoods... which is honestly, just as bad for us.
If you'd dig a little deeper about the license revocation, you'd find that he retired in 2003 and was not practicing medicine. In 2009, the Arizona Medical Board went after him in retirement because of his books and speeches about inflammation causing heart disease and his outspoken stance against statins. They looked at 8 years of patients prior to 2003. Even though he had one of the highest success rates of cardiothoracic surgeons in Arizona, they callously revoked the license of a retired surgeon. As if that wasn't enough, they issued a Press Release announcing it. He was the only surgeon whose license was revoked to have a Press Release issued about it. The intent and message was very clear. Don't speak out against pharmaceutical companies or conventional medicine if you want to keep your license.
It helps to think of one's fat collectively as a single organ. Its purpose is twofold. The obvious first purpose is to store/bank energy, but the second purpose is to keep you alive by sponging up excess glucose and converting and storing it as fat. This is because high blood glucose is toxic to tissue. High blood glucose basically marinates (at body temperature due to enzymes, not grill temperature) your tissues, so the body of a non-diabetic tightly regulates it. Look up "Advanced glycation end-products" [Link]. Carbohydrates are "fast food" in the sense that they enter the bloodstream fast, and then are rapidly removed from the bloodstream by insulin, leaving you hungry again. Fats and protein are "slow food". Excess food fat hangs around in your bloodstream, keeping you sated longer. Excess protein is pissed out. The "sugar sponge" purpose of your fat organ is why liposuction is counter productive and increases the risk of diabetes. It removes not only body fat, but fat tissue! You now have less sponge to soak up excess glucose. You want to "squeeze out" the sponge by reducing carbs from your diet, not cut out the sponge.
I think I will stick to my vegan diet! It has worked for me and I've had blood work done and my doctor was very impressed and said I have the cholesterol of what a 12 year old should be (although many probably aren't with their crap diet!) I agree eating processed foods are bad with their high omega 6 and sugar. But a plant based diet based on whole foods is the best way I think. As for the comment by the user that was vegetarian for 17 years, I can see how that wasn't working as vegetarians tend to eat way too much dairy products. I think "dairy is the devil"! Come on people time to wean yourselves, you aren't a baby calf!
How many of you have seen Forks Over Knives and what do you think?
I think you have missed something fundamental in what the article is about, in that high cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, so what is the 'point' of having 'good' blood levels which are 'approved' by your doctor?
Nor are people cows who eats grass and are genetically adapted to do so. Some people might think it would be nice if we are all the same, but we are not. People are a humans who have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to eat something like a hunter gatherer diet. So, it is worth researching what this actually is and why it is important. If you want to 'argue' from a position of 'strength' then it is best to know ALL the facts, not just the ones that support a praticular (usually the holder's) idea. It is worth noteing that this is a bias.
Now humans have multiple genetic 'types'. This has been shown to be the 'result' of putting (any) species under stress.
They are certainly NOT all the same, and do NOT have all the same types of needs/responses/problems. "Eating Right 4 Your Type" is one such book which uses the differences in blood type as an illustation of one genetic anomally and how a corresponding diet might be a clue to well being. Mind you, Dr Mercola has spoken out about this type of diet, which he tried, and didn't work for him, because of high fructose. As such, some people may find it interesting to read "The Fat Switch" By Richard J Johnson MD".
As far as "Forks over Knives" go, I haven't seen it, but it does seem to be 'discouraging' processed foods - which is a good thing. However to include natural animal products in that seems like a bit like an agenda and poor investigation/science. in other words, it might work for some people, but not for others.
The doctor said...."I don't understand why your LAD (left anterior descending artery) is 95% blocked" Your Triglycerides are 60, your cholesterol counts are that of an 18 year old even though your 55. Quite frankly I'm surprised"
That's when I gave the doc my past....... Weight 285 pounds, waist 48 inches, Triglycerides consistently over 400, heavy concentrations of carbs, plenty of alcohol pouring in :( recent Type 2 Diabetes diagnosis...... Whoa!!!! Hold the train he doc said, your current weight is 165 pounds...what did you do?
Answer- I cut out all the foods and beverages in my diet which metabolized into glucose, kept myself under 20 NET carbs (Carbs -Fiber - Sugar Alcohols=NET Carbs) and I lost 100 pounds in 7 months, CURED my type 2 and my life completely changed.....BUT, guess what happened during all those years of body abuse?
Heavy Triglyceride counts (blood fat) had created plaque build up in my LAD....now this type of plaque is commonly referred to as hardening of the arteries plaque and indeed it's tough stuff. It doesn't flush out even when you get your blood healthy, it lays in wait until;
One day your stress level is high and the plaque for some unknown reason starts to soften and swell like a sponge closing off the blood flow through your artery. Next stop for you.....angioplasty and a stent IF you live long enough from the widow maker you just experienced.
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It is interesting how many different views we have had in this forum. We have had the view of the vegetarian, the low carb high fat view and the Paleo concept to mention a few.
This reminds us that there is no "one size fits all" for diet and nutrition". The obese guy with diabetes and hypertension may have to choose a different option from the slim guy with high cholesterol, or the athlete who has to select the best nutrition for training and competition which might actually have to include a lot of complex carbohydrates.
A patient of mine recently suggested trying the Atkins diet although he almost didn´t dare speak out about it. It reminded me about the negative attitude of many health professionals about the low carb/high fat concept. You can read my blog here
There is an interesting study published this weeks in the British Medical Journal on the consumption of white rice and diabetes.
This time it is not about simple, refined processed carbohydrates but complex carbohydrates in the form of starch. Hopefully these new scientific data will help us better understand the role of carbohydrates in the development of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. It will certainly help us realize that it is not all about cholesterol and fats....
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"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."
Our grandparents were dying young. Mortality in your 50's was sad but "normal". Since then, mortality ages have shot up due to medical breakthru's and diet. You can argue that people are getting fat under that diet, but everyone is living much longer than when my grandmother made me dinner way back when.
Not a real valid assumption since longevity statistics are very complex. I can trace my ancestory back 6 generations and fnd that 80% lived past 80 and 20% past 85. In the period under question sugar was readily available and there were fewer or no medical procedures like heart surgery to save those people who had created their own health problems by eating poorly. If you would like to check references and read a well researched book (written by a solicitor/attorney with no preconceived medical knowledge) the read "Sweet Poison" by David Gillespie. One of the profound statements in this book is that cardiovascular disease was unknown until refined sugar came into general consumption and incidence of heart disease in a country generally tracks the historical consumption of refined sugar and simple carbohydrates.
Current guidelines recommend that we get 55-65 percent of our energy intake from carbohydrates.
What is the case against saturated fats?
Its great to read this perspective from Dwight and hear what makes sense in terms of what's really going on in our bodies. In addition to the dietary aspects, I wonder if there is also an contribution from our emotions both in terms of our emotional relationship with food and in how our emotions might add poison our bodies long term?
Stress is perhaps the best documented in terms of its contribution to heart disease - but also if we have regularly chosen to be anxious or angry or other non-loving emotions one can imagine how the associated chemical wash might affect our cells and long term emerge as heart disease.
What an excellent, well written article. I have been maintaining this for several years now and have also authored several similar articles, (www.dcneuro.net). Cholesterol has been wrongly accused of causing heart disease, and statin drug therapies, have only mad big pharma deep pockets even deeper. Not to mention the increase in heart disease which they impose, quite contrary to their intention. What a crime perpetrated on the american people.
With regards to someones comment about living longer than our grandparents, this is certainly not attributable to cholesterol lowering drugs. Heart disease is higher than ever. Life span has increased associated with many medical therapies which address a multitude of conditions, as well as refined surgical procedures over the span of decades. Further, it has been reported through the New England Journal of Medicine, that this current generation will be the first to have a shorter life span than the prior generation, for the first time in history. This can be attributed to the facts depicted in this "on target" article.
Dr. A. R. Scopelliti
I am so glad to see a doctor writing this. (Written as I am eating a plate of pastured chicken livers.)
the heart is happy when we truly love (nice is not synonym).
cholesterol is down when we truly have fun.
the only way to be truly healthy is to feed one's totem animals (with as healthy food as possible... but not even a must).
How many doctors will it take to finally get the truth out? Dr. Atkins tried...he said to stop eating carbs, and that fat does not make you fat.
How long will the ADA tell diabetics to eat more "healthy" carbs, and less fat? Then they just need to inject more insulin. The culprit in adult-onset diabetes is carbohydrates, so why are they encouraged to eat more?
I looked at the carb count in a well-known frozen package of a so-called diet meal and the carb count was 46! But it was low in fat. That is just crazy! Try eating some baked chicken and a salad. (Sorry, I am not ready to eat raw meat.)
Will we see a major change in what people eat? I doubt it. The pharmaceutical companies and major food manufacturers (of noodles, bread, cereal, cookies, cake mixes, candy, etc.) stand to lose too much, so they can reap the profits, not that they care if it's harming or killing us.
How long before Dr. Oz confesses that Weight Watchers is wrong? Is he paid to endorse them? There should be warning labels on anything containing sugar or wheat.
This is just my humble opinion. I am not a doctor, just someone who has tried to educate myself on what is really best for me.
Now if we can just get doctors to learn to recognize tha the condition called "Lipedema" exists, and we need treatment for it.
I appreciate acceptance of errors done by doctors and accepted by a true scientist Dr. Lundell.
Indeed I may add that heart disease is also the result of continuous anxiety. Today's life pattern is nothing but addition in anxiety day by day, which amounts to a level that internal inflammation, which leads to severe damage to our body organs in several ways.
Food is only a factor, not a major factor. Body works under the specific orders issued by the controlling part of our mind. Mind is influenced by the our five senses. In case the five senses input a data, which results into happiness, laugh and satisfaction, the result is that body inflammation is reduced. In all other cases inflammation is on increase.
The current science is still very raw as far as understanding of our human machine is concerned. The Creator of this machine is the Creator of this universe. If we want to understand this human biological factory, we have first reach the Creator and set up a dialogue with Him, without His help scientists are wasting their efforts. They may never be able to understand to the extent, what is required. You want a solution for heart problems, brain problems, cans-or problems, ask the Power who created all these. He will certianly give you the solution. LOVE FOR ALL and HATRED FOR NONE is the key to a healthy life.
Everyone is (mostly) commenting on diet and nutrition, wholistic aspects, etc, BUT overlooking recent studies which clearly imply we have been damaging our internal ecosystems with antibiotics. Specifically, check out the lastest issue of Scientific American, where they summarize (in enough detail to be a starting point for meaningful research) about natural checks-and-balances which have evolved over at least the last 200,000 years, based on commensual bacteria in our bodies. In particular, detailed fully-peer-reviewed-and-approved scientific studies are showing that mice lacking various bacteria have many times higher incidence of various types of tissue inflammation. In gastro-intestinal, neural AND circulatory tissues.
One study showed that the presence (or absence) of a particular bacterium in the stomach correlated directly with the brain receiving feedback (or not), appropriately deciding "Hungry, eat more" at one point and "Full already, stop eating" at another. I don't have the article directly in front of me, but I remember one statistic saying recent testing indicates about 4% of children currently have this bacteria in their systems, whereas one or two generations ago EVERYONE had it.
Yet another factor was mentioned as under consideration -- the increased incidence of C-section deliveries (and reduced incidence of breast feeding) have blocked some of the primary mechanisms for newborn children to start acquiring their life-long commensual-biota partnerships. And mention was made in passing of neural tissue inflammation as possibly being pertinent re the apparent increase in the incidence of diagnoses of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
In a similar context, recently published reports suggest that a process very 'tentatively' (hesitantly) labeled as "fecal transplant" warrants serious attention -- specifically because gastro-intestinal biota depleted by antibiotics have been found to display "tipping points" where less-beneficial populations are enabled to take-over, to flourish, to the body's detriment -- and transplanting biologically active populations of the properly beneficial bacteria have repeatedly been found to resolve a whole host of problems.
People have this "top-of-the-heap" attitude, believing that our genetics and physiologies are "stand-alone" sufficient. Turns out this is much less TRUE than we might prefer. Increasingly, stomach ulcers, irritated bowel syndrome, the blood-vessel inflammation described in this article as causal in regards heart disease: ALL show signs of being treatable with a biota-augmentation regimen -- and it appears that any protocol including antibiotics should ALSO include what should be a standardized biota-replacement aspect.
Do some Googling, and make some noise, people -- YOUR life is being impacted here. And as a side-note: sounds like the niche for yogurt with active cultures (hmm) may be about to expand dramatically.
Come to think of it, it would be simpler, before we ingest some quantity of antibiotics, if we were somehow able to take a "snapshot" of our biota, take samples and save them, so that AFTER the sequence of antibiotics, we can RESTORE those samples and get BACK to "business as usual".
Big issue -- "yogurt with active cultures" is only going to work for biota which SURVIVE entering the stomach (like, say, the ones that are SUPPOSED to be there but nowadays generally AREN'T). Gastro-intestinal biota are, unfortunately, likely to have to be "delivered" in the form of "suppository, with active cultures". NOT looking forward to the marketing for that one. BUT I'm not sure we can continue to avoid the issue much longer. Because more and more research is ALSO finding that inflamed tissue in the gut, "leaky gut", is tied to a host of autoimmune issues, gluten sensitivities, etc.
No idea how one would go about reinforcing bacteria in the circulatory system -- since the WRONG bacteria becomes, by definition, septic. BAD for you.
I write articles about losing weight healthily and all my findings from reputable sources indicate that a low-fat diet simply does not work. People need fat to lose fat (http://www.loseweight-effectively.com/weight-loss-foods.html). Many people simply fail to lose weight because they do not incorporate enough healthy fats in their diet.
Saturated fat is so misunderstood and is often wrongly-accused of causing heart diseases. I feel sorry for people who are scared of fat for this. They are losing so much on their end just because of unfounded fear. Vegetable oils that are marketed as heart-healthy continue to become stealth culprits on the loose.
I congratulate Dr. Dwight for making a brave stand on this. May the truth be known to all.
Thank you Dr. Lundell for an amazing article. The comments are great. My comment is about water. Let the 10 trillion cells of the body bathe and cleanse with the higest quality restructured, antioxidant, micro-clustered, alkaline water and in a few months, the body sings! Mine is!
Proper hydration, with the right water, makes the whole difference!
When I realized that my body was ~ 70% water, I had to find the best water. All the food etc. is needed but the foundation, the key is the right water. Water that can cleanse at the cellular level. When I found the high quality restructured, antioxidant, micro-clustered, alkaline water, and I started drinking, it changed my health!
We need more doctors and scientists that are willing to be honest and speak out loud what they know is the truth!
We can no longer ignore that a lot of the information that is fed to us is very misleading, full of misconceptions and perhaps deceit.
Maybe it is time to trust again what makes obvious sense even if it goes against everything that is taught.
We have lost the trust in and the connection to our own bodies and what we can tangibly feel is good for us. We do not listen to our bodies anymore, we ignore the poor thing and override it with our minds with what we know.
Unfortunately knowledge has become something that is often untrue.
But with diseases still rising and becoming more complex it is high time that we stop and come to our senses!
I wrote an article on may blog a few weeks ago in response to Dr. Lundell´s paper: "What is the real cause of heart disease?" Many of you have read the article and I am still getting a lot of response.
Because my blog adress (URL) has changed I wanted to provide you all with the correct link to the article.
I was diagnosed with heart failure two years ago. It was ideopathic - they didn't know why it was happening to me. So they "guessed" that it was a virus that attacked my heart. I was told I would need a heart transplant. But, fortunately, it seems, my heart was dying faster than they could move forward with the transplant. So, they instead implanted an LVAD (left ventricular assist device). The LVAD bought me time, allowing me to research the root cause of my problem and to see answers. I took a three pronged approach. First was to natually get my hormone levels in balance, the second was a wide range of nutrients and the third was changing to a nutrient-dense diet. In spite of odd of 99 to 1 against me, my heart did heal and the LVAD was removed. I have written about my journey and the details of what I read and did to get well in "One Percent: My Journey Overcoming Heart Disease," [Link]Much of my approach is what Dr. Lundell recommends.
Stress, as well as diet, is a major contributor to heart disease.
I believe that for sure.
I weighed 327 lbs, 6'3" and had developed insulin dependent diabetes. Last fall I was prescribed an antibiotic that damaged my pancreas and my sugars went into the troposphere. After months of eating according to the Diabetic Association guidelines things weren't getting much better and I was tired of the needles.
Friends of mine had been going through a dramatic change as they had changed how they ate: Paleo. I looked into it and decided to try it.
One of our friends had been a vegetarian for 9-years and her health and weight weren't great either. Now almost 8 months later I have lost 50-lbs, so has the ex-Vegetarian. I'm off all of my meds with the ecstatic endorsement of my endocrinologist. My blood tests have been the best they've been ... in living memory. I have finally ended my lifelong suffering with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and I feel better than I have in 20-years!
This is all empirical evidence ... but when I talk to my family about it they all think we're crazy (my wife and I both). My father-in-law has had several heart-attacks and survived cancer twice ... but until his cardiologist tells him that it's carbs that are bad he won't believe us. My mother-in-law is the least receptive ... but before it becomes common-knowledge that there is an alternative to low-fat high-carb to treat her husband and herself they'll likely have died ... they have health-issues and are 81-80 respectively. We have even had family express their concern that we're going to be killing ourselves eating this way ... and they are diabetic and obese.
So it's a hard sell that's for certain! I do know that it works for me and my wife, and our friends. [Link] Check it out!
I agree with Dr. Dwight's conclusions, but I would have liked him to link to studies for further reference, especially as I point friends and family to this type of food philosophy.
I know. I do not believe ANYthing I read on the internet these days; ya just can't. I wanna see the research.
I think it is important to note here that the consumption of animal products causes significant damage to the protective lining (endothelia). Damaged endothelia plays a very active role in causing arterial inflammation. While the above article is very true, recommending animals products as a safe alternative is dangerous and irresponsible. Instead of grass fed beef butter, try a soy free, dairy free, butter such as earth balance. Cows milk is nutritious for baby cows, just like human milk is nutritious for baby humans. Drinking the milk, or consuming the dead flesh of another species is extremely dangerous and is not recommended.
"Cows milk is nutritious for baby cows, just like human milk is nutritious for baby humans. Drinking the milk, or consuming the dead flesh of another species is extremely dangerous and is not recommended."
Ok, if we use this logic - which I think you'll all find scary, then I should drink human milk and eat human flesh. Wow!
Here's what I know: (no fanatacizm here - but I'm not apologizing for that)
1. Refined food is not as good for me as unrefined food.
2. Food I grow in my own organic garden is better for me than food from most other food sources.
3. Whole wheat is very good for me - ground into flour, sprouted, cooked whole or cracked.
4. Fresh fruit is better for me than canned, frozen or processed fruit.
5. Unpasteurized honey is extremely good for me.
6. Fresh vegetables are better for me than canned, frozen or processed vegetables. Raw or lightly cooked is best for flavor - except potatoes which just don't taste right when crunchy.
7. Beef, pork, chicken, venison, elk, horse, rabbit, goose, turkey, duck, goat, etc are all good for me, but not in large quantities.
8. Salt is good for me, but only in small quantities. Restaurant food and prepackaged meals tend to be severely over salted.
9. Pickle juice (a tablspoon under the tongue and then swallowed) will immediately get rid of a charlie horse.
10. Dark pop (coke, dr pepper, pepsi - not root beer) in a person's body prevents calcium absorption, eventually causing bone weaknesses.
11. Real yogurt (high fat milk + active bacteria culture only) is very good for me.
12. Ingesting aspartame gives me an instant headache. I never eat artificially sweetened foods or drinks.
13. All alcoholic beverages are bad for me. (Either because they contain too much alcohol or because they are an entry fee to dangerous environments and lifestyles - I have enough to work on in my life without adding alcohol)
14. Smoking is not for me. I carefully protect my lungs using dust masks, etc in hazardous environments.
15. I wear hearing protection in very noisy environments. (NHL hockey games and driving my big rig, etc)
16. A small amount of daily excercise is good as long as it is very strenuous (heavy weight lifting, chinups, pushups, digging in the garden, concrete finishing, etc - basically anything that I can't do for very long at a time before becoming winded)
17. Resting one day a week is good for me.
18. Speaking, aloud or silently several times every day to my maker (God) is very good for me.
19. Pondering my location and my part in the universe daily is very good for me.
20. Hiking is good for me, but not to excess.
21. Sufficient sleep for my particular body is very good for me.
22. A few drops of oregano oil in the throat will quickly rid me of a sore throat. Sage and honey tea is good to wash it down with.
23. Serving others is very good for me.
24. Drinking tap water is good for me and feels better than drinking filtered or bottled water.
25. I use large and small amounts of butter, olive oil and coconut oil - depending on how my body feels at the time.
26. Food fanatacizm is not for me.
I could perhaps say more, but I need a little balance in my life so it's time to get up and leave the computer. Hope my comments helped at least one of you out there in cyberspace. Happy eating...
How do you know these things are really good for you?
It seems to me that you are entirely unaware of all the toxins you are eating with such a diet nor aware of what the body really needs to function properly.
Many advocates and promoters of the good high fat diet say that this diet is meant to stop heart disease?
But according to this article it says that people on natural wild diets still got heart disease's.....People tend to think of heart disease as a scourge of modern life, brought on by vices such as greasy fast food, smoking and the tendency to be a couch potato.
But 21st century CT scans of 137 antique mummies gathered from three continents show that hardened arteries have probably plagued mankind for thousands of years — even in places like the Aleutian Islands, where hunter-gatherers subsisted on a heart-healthy marine diet and occasional snacks of berries.
Fully a third of the mummies examined — who lived in the American Southwest and Alaska as well as Egypt and Peru as much as 5,000 years ago — appeared to have the same vascular blockages that cause heart attacks and strokes in Americans today......follow link to read rest
Its a bit annoying as i have been doing the high fat diet thing in replace of a carbohydrate's diet for a while. Now this conflicting information comes out....what a land of confusion we live in. Some thoughts on the subject be great.
I recently reached 39 years of age. Seven weeks ago I embarked on a goal to get back under 200 lbs. This is what I did; I changed my diet drastically. I used to eat breakfast tacos every morning. Hamburger for lunch and/or dinner. Beef, beef, beef. French fries and sliced jalapenos are my Kryptonite. I have eaten an apple almost every day for well over 30 years but that was about as healthy as I ate most of the time. Sure, I'd enjoy a green or fruit salad here and there but they were not the "meat and potatoes" so to speak. I stopped drinking sodas years ago save for maybe once a month or so I enjoy a cold Coca-Cola. I count calories and read all the nutrition facts and ingredients on all foods. Now for breakfast I eat a 250 calorie (or less) low fat biscuit of egg white and turkey sausage and a banana. Lunch is a Healthy Choice or equivalent type of meal with sun brewed green tea. It is usually about 250-400 calories. All are low in sat.fats and high in poly and mono-unsaturated fats. Cholesterol levels are low. For dinner I eat about one half of what I did before (this is the hardest part). So far I have shed 19 lbs in just seven weeks and I feel good. I allow myself a 'cheat day' on Fridays. I enjoy a tasty breakfast as a treat to a weeks worth of work..and it is all working great.
Now as far as all that the Dr. described above, and I mean this with all due respect as I have never been to med school nor even seen the inside of a human body. A lot of the big people I see in my office building are eating burgers, tacos, and soda after soda.
I really want to believe all Dr.'s but here in 2013 there is SOOO much misinformation spread about by people with no idea of what they are talking about but "feel" like they know the scoop. I mean, doctors for years have told us that sugar is good, then bad, then good etc. Same thing for eggs, milk, beef, soybean and the list is nearly endless. I tend to not believe what cannot be scientifically or mathematically proven. My current Dr. is a very good and (I feel) is an honest person.
This article was a most entertaining read but it does not jive with my experience over the last seven weeks and I shall talk it over with my Dr. and do my own research as well.
I write this in all respect and are merely reflections on my hands on experiences. Replies and input are gracefully respected.
All these things can be and are mostly scientifically proven. Just not accepted by mainstream people. And this is where the disinformation comes from. Pharmaceutical companies and food companies do everything they can to keep the billions coming.
Cholesterol is a vital constituent of the body. Your own body produces roughly 3 times more cholesterol that you intake so eating less of it will only result in your body producing more. And by doing so, you deprive yourself from good fats such as saturated fat which is a major constituent of cell membrane and important fatty acids like omega-3 which is vital for the brain and must be taken in a proper ratio with omega-6 (which vegetable oils do not offer). Not to mention other important nutrients that can only be obtained from aminal fat. To put it in simple terms, humans are meant to eat animals, not plants/grains. We aren't equipped to properly digest vegetables/grains. That is simply the result evolution. And veggies/fruits/grains contain a myriad of antinutrients and toxins. So all the "good things" you can get from them will be useless as the negative effects outweigh by far the benefits.
The best way to loose weight is to cut carbs and upper fat intake. When one follows a ketogenic diet, one is in a "fat burning mode" as opposed to a "carb burning mode" so it is very easy from there to lose weight and most likely happens by itself. I know many people who are following this diet carefully and they all have lost weight and overcame a myriad of health problems.
In your case, it just seems that you are simply unaware of all the toxins your ingest and unaware of the harm you are doing to yourself by restricting your cholesterol/saturated fat intake (for instance). I'd say that your whole diet needs to be evaluated.
You should read the following:
- Primal Body Primal Mind by Nora Gedgaudas
- The Vegetarian Myth by Lierre Keith
- Life Without Bread by C. Allen and W. Lutz
- Detoxify or Die by Dr. Sherry Roger
You could also search on the cassiopaea.org forum in the "Diet and Health" section. You will find months worth of reading. Research, facts, articles, books, experiences, testimonies etc. I'm sure this will help if you are open to it.
Good luck!
I shall look into those. thank you.
I think you are on the right track. Always question, always experiment (but NEVER drastically and always slowly unless you know something that other's don't), always do your reasearch... and try and keep a clear mind.
It is obviously of value to note how MUCH our responses are conditioned by programming (of what ever type) as well as our emotional responses to things.
I found this particular doctor's approach (he makes himself his own guineapig), very interesting.
You might like to see parts 1 & 2 of that as well.
And THIS is why I put so little faith in science. For the bulk of my lifetime I tried to follow "scientific" advice regarding eating. When I went low carb in the late nineties, fat people eating potato chips told me I was going to kill myself. True story. a fat woman sitting next to me looked at my plate at a picnic saw that I had all the meat and veggies (onion, tomato, pickles, lettuce) that go into a hamburger but no bun. Despite the fact that her figure looked like an inverted light bulb, she sat there in front of her low fat cake, whole wheat hamburger buns, and Olestra potato chips (remember THAT diuretic?) and sternly warned me that I probably had a brick in my colon and was killing my heart. Why? Because science told her to ignore her mirror and eat low fat, high carb meals SIX TIMES A DAY.
Damn near everything I learned about exercise and diet from SCIENTISTS in health magazines, on TV, on the radio, and all over the internet has been reversed completely. Now when I tell people I am slow to accept what scientists tell me and that I'd like to wait a bit to see what changes, or try things out and see for myself, I still hear people tell me, but it is scientifically proven that...blah blah blah. Apparently early 21st century science is way, way WAY better than late 20th century science.
Recently full sit ups have come into vogue because they accomplish more than crunches. Way more. Well, bless my soul. As a teen I was told that full sit ups resulted in over-developed hip flexors, as though that would land me in a wheel chair. Now fitness 'experts' are touting full sit-ups like they just invented them. And this enthusiastic news was reported less than two months ago.
I actually stopped doing full sit ups for a decade because of poor, but very popular, science.
That is hardly important, but I have watched my mom struggle to eat right in the face decades of this bad science. She will die sooner than she should because she, like all of us, were flat out lied to for 40 years.
Holy crap! Your 6-vessel coronary artery disease is not from your diet but from familial hypercholesterolemia or some other kind of inborn error of fat metabolism. You need to find a good GP, (albeit difficult to do) to get that investigated or else your diseased arteries will return, gasp even if you follow a vegan diet!
Perhaps Dr Lundell went to medical school a little to long ago, but the pathophysiology of atheroma formation has been well elucidated and it does begin with LDL-cholesterol. It is true, there is inflammation in the arteries but this all begins with LDL cholesterol being taken up by macropahges, thus becoming foam cells, which is the initial step in atheroma formation. Foam cells are directly toxic to the endothelial lining of arteries and propagates inflammatory changes that set the stage for plaque formation. What propagates this formation is other types of pro-inflammatory events i.e smoking, high blood pressure and genetic predisposition.
Where is Dr Lundell's scientific evidence regarding what causes this inflammation he speaks of? I suppose just staring at thousands of diseased arteries is enough to come to a conclusion that cholesterol is not the enemy. The fact of the matter is that people who eat well, exercise and are accountable for what they put in their mouths are not the people who end up on Dr Lundell's table. It could also ring true that evil grocery store foods are being laced with tiny brains chips developed by the government to convince us that fat is bad and we should eat all these sugary, fat-free foods. I guess then its not our fault that we're fat and unhealthy because we were lied to by the evil powers above for 40 years!
Come on people...what ever happened to everything in moderation. Fat may not be "bad for you" in its purest sense, but if you just ate avocado and almonds all day long you'd be pretty chunky. Similarly, I'm pretty sure putting copious amounts of butter on your fresh corn may lead to adverse health effects, if done regularly. But wait, you're eating corn..and fat...that's good for you right? Why don't we all try being accountable for our health, stopping blaming the evil forces that be for lying to us about what is good/bad for you and exert the restraint that is required in our day to day lives to avoid being a patient on Dr Lundell's table...who by the way was found to be negligent in his post-operative care of cardiac patients :)
And lastly...enough with this whole foods are inflammatory argument. The only inflammatory anything related to food is in the case of Celiac disease, where people, with an inherited auto-immune predisposition, develop an immune response to gliadin, the protein in wheat. And i'm sure, if you delved a little deeper into that persons family history- you'd find other family members with hypothyroidism, type 1 diabetes and pernicious anemia. Similarly, lactose intolerance is not a dairy is evil inflammation-inducing disease. It is caused by the absence of lactase, an enzyme required to break down lactose. Some people have an allergy to lactose, and as well, if you took the time to delve a little deeper into their personal and/or family history...you'd find that same person had eczema as a kid and dad has asthma thus demonstrating the hypersensitivity reaction some families tend to exhibit.
Try eating lean meats, fruits and veggies, complex carbs, low-fat dairy products and the occasional sweet roll...i promise you wont implode
Well i'm off to go devour a peanut butter sammich...mmm fat
"who by the way was found to be negligent in his post-operative care of cardiac patients"
Yes, he was found to be negligent in the advice he gave a patient by a board representing the same lies we've heard about the low fat diet for the past 50 years.
Hence the above article. So appealing to authority in this case, in order to denigrate his, actually backfires against you.
"Where is Dr Lundell's scientific evidence regarding what causes this inflammation he speaks of?"
A quick Google search will show you it's all over the place:
"What propagates this formation is other types of pro-inflammatory events i.e smoking, high blood pressure and genetic predisposition."
Smoking, really?
If you delve a little deeper into Celiac disease, you'll learn that most people are at least gluten-intolerant, and that there are thousands of different gluten proteins, and they're in all grains, including rice.
Hi Niall, good to finally hear from someone!
As stated above, I did not deny that there was inflammation in blood vessels. In fact, inflammatory mediators are a well known factor in the propagation of atheroma formation as supported by all those links to scientific articles you sent me, cheers! What I was arguing, is how Dr Lundell has come to conclude that Cholesterol is not the enemy by just staring at thousands of diseased vessels while performing bypass surgeries. He has no scientific fact as to as to what really is the enemy, just his theory that its not cholesterol.
The articles you sent me:
Link 1 argues inflammation is key to the propagation of atheroma which I did not deny. It also shows studies that demonstrate a decreased level of inflammatory markers in patients taking statins which decrease lipid levels- thats fat.
Link 2 describes the pathophysiology of atheroma formation which is well described. It also describes combatting classic risk factors i.e. smoking, diet and physical activity. It also shows how lipid (fat) lowering therapy contributes to decreased inflammatory markers and has been shown to stabilize plaques and decreasing the risk of plaque rupture
Link 3- is not a scientific article but one doctors opinion. But, granted he's smart- also argues for the inflammation hypothesis, which I didn't deny and says that the new research doesn't detract from well known risk factors: cholesterol, blood pressure, smoking, and adopting healthier lifestyles.
Link 4 also argues in favour of the inflammation argument and reviews multiple articles supporting stress as a proponent of atherosclerotic lipid profile. Not really related to either of our arguments at all. But still- related to shifting lipid profiles.
Smoking definitely, 100% contributes to a) inflammation in blood vessels and b) overall negative health outcomes independent of diet and physical activity. Sorry your Sott article doesn't trump essentially every scientific journal and textbook known to man
and lastly...glutenfreesociety.org lacks any scientific fact and little Michael with his story or rheumatoid arthritis that was miraculously cured with a gluten free diet--> also falls on the severely autoimmune spectrum and both diseases are related. Im not surprised actually that Michael improved ( not cured), as if his body makes inappropriate immune responses to his joints, it most probably also makes inappropriate immune responses to gluten. (PS- how do we know it was non-celiac gluten sensitivity, no blood tests there)
Are olive oil and organic butter the only healthier alternatives? I use coconut oil in some cooking, and was wondering if that was considered as bad as soybean oil? Or is it better?
Dr Dwight Lundell and Zoe Harcombe, are these really the only two people who will speak out against what is truly happening with all the wrong dietary advice being given out. Will no other doctors finally see reason and admit that what they have been taught and told to tell us all is actually killing us slowly.
If governments won't back down until they are informed by doctors that the advice they have been spouting for the last couple of decades is WRONG, the doctors HAVE to speak out now.
The NHS in the UK is grinding to a halt mostly due to bad dietary advice, we HAVE to do something before it keels over and dies completely!!
I wholeheartedly agree with those of you who are saying it's up to each of us to put this to the test ourselves. Taking personal responsibility is really the beginning and the end of it all.
In my early 20's I went vegetarian, partly because the low fat theory came out in force when I was in medical school.
I thought I was doing the right things with my diet but really had to rethink that in my 50's as various things started appearing (blephyritis, rosacea, cancer and bad blood lipids) so a few years ago I followed people like Dwight and got my blood fats back to normal.
Body fat was still a struggle though until this year,
If you're interested, you can hear my journey and the doctors and others that I have learned from here: [Link]
Our medical system makes very poor distinctions between disease and unhealthiness.
So called 'heart disease' is a progressively worsening healthiness of the circulatory system. The way to 'cure' heart disease is to measure and to improve circulatory system healthiness. Unfortunately, most of the suggestions, even important suggestions like dietary changes in these comments - are presented from a medical, not a health viewpoint.
If we are to 'cure heart disease', we need to measure circulatory system unhealthiness, find the cause of individual instances of circulatory system unhealthiness - there are many possible causes - and address the cause in individual situations. Unfortunately for our medical system a) it can be a lot of work. and b) it doesn't sell expensive solutions like drugs or surgery. Eg. there is less money to be made making people healthy than there is to be made claiming they are 'sick' and then selling medical solutions to their sickness.
to your health, tracy
It should come as logical that whatever we eat and drink is what our cells are made of and that synthetic "foods" are going to alter our cell formation. The lesser understood thing is that our thoughts and perceptions affect our own body chemistry and that the cells have to adapt to that also. It is this combination plus our environment that causes us so much ill health.
Thank you doctor for your valuable input.
You are what you eat, drink and think!
I believe in supplements. You can eat healthy food, but unfortunately nutrition in today's food has changed, because of
- Preservatives, processing & radiation of food
- Monoculture
- Artificial ripening of fruit
- Overuse of fertilizer, pesticides and genetic modification
- Long transport distances
- Long storage times
- Air, land & sea pollution
We all need to take supplements!!
Disclaimer: I don't believe there is a one factor cureall to most diseases but I do have a point that may offer a new twist to this discussion...
While I agree that our environment and diet does greatly affect our bodies, sometimes its not necessarily what we're putting into our bodies, it's what we're not putting in them and I'm not talking about your typical supplements. I'm talking about the Hygiene Theory and using microorganisms from our environment of which we evolved with over a very long period of time to help our immune systems get back on track. Our cleanly habits may have put a stop to deadly diseases but they also got rid of the good guys. If you haven't noticed, our clean society is riddle with a population of autoimmune diseases, allergies and other inflammatory messes. All of which didn't exist before the age of hygiene, why is that? Sounds like there's a link to me...
Some great new research is being done based on this highly supported theory. One such set of research specializes in Helminthic Therapy (the use of "parasitic" worms to regulate allergies and autoimmune diseases). I use parasitic in quotations as I believe with time we will come to know them as "mutualistc" worms. We evolved with these little worms from the beginning of humanity just as we have with our gut bacteria. We must treat our microbiome as one of our most important organs, after all we are only 10% human (aka we're primarily made of bacteria) and our immune system is primarily located around our gut where the largest percentage of our microbiom lives...it just makes sense right? More basic info on the microbiome below...
The implications of the Hygiene Theory are incredible, look it up! Since the immune system is the culprit to causing inflammation, why not use natural tools to help regulate it?? Check these links out to learn more.
[Link](immune regulation)
[Link](scroll down to cardiovascular diseases on this site)
I could talk about this science for days but I'd rather you all do the research and dig more for yourselves. I think you'll find that this is an elegant field of research that is just blossoming and full of possibilities. I hope you even consider Helminths for yourselves.
Enjoy! And go Helminths! Get back in our guts!
I agree with doctor Lundell. I was diagnosed with heart disease at the age of 17, while big part of my diet was based on processed fast foods, during this time. When I changed my eating habits, slowly but surely my condition gradually improved.
However, it is not only about the foods we eat. I was fat and very inactive, while my sex and stress hormones got out of balance.
In most cases, a combination of factors triggers disease. It is not just about one thing. At least not from my experience.
If you are interested, you can check my story here: www.heart-health-guide.com
Didn't this guy lose his license to practice medicine?
Without a single doubt if his license was revoked it wasn't for all those who endured painful unnecessary surgery.
It wasn't because he didn't recommend CHELATION instead of surgery to BYPASS THE BYPASS. (See author Elmer Cranton, MD)
It WAS because he challenged authority. Makers and profits from Statins, anti cholesterol drugs, Blood Pressure drugs, and so many others are ruthless.
The FDA is NOT your protector! YOU are!
been a vegetarian for 55 years, i have a cardiologist who's giving me lip about carbs.
i'm not going to eat an animal to salvage his reputation.
enough said.
Before declaring this man has valuable information that need be shared ASAP, lets please consider that he is not even a doctor and has more negligence cases against him then can be reasonably ignored. And has declared bankruptcy twice. I'm all for saying the medical world is garbage, it is, but frankly this man seems as trustworthy as a fox in a hen house.
Why don't you read comments, Marco?
"Re: License Revoked
QW's argument against Dr. Lundell is obviously flawed by his criticism of personal financial dealings that have no bearing on his medical integrity. Aside from that, QW has already been exposed and thoroughly discredited.
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:45 CET"
Heart diseases are one the most growing diseases. Several of the scientist and researchers are trying to find out that what actually cause to the heart disease. There outcomes might be the different but we can say that all of them are contributing.
Don't usually sign up for comments, but wanted to add a word of support. Wish more Doctors were like you. I can personally attest to the transformation in health just following that kind of simple advice... no meds required!
Cardiovascular diseases are caused by inflammation but what is the inflammation caused by? Stress is the key factor, which means high blood pressure. And most smokers, smoke due to stress. The person would have any and all blood constituents screaming through the arteries so of course they would end up causing damage to the arterial walls. The damage is then in constant repair because as the immune system attempts repairs more damage is caused to the repairs, which are more unstable than the rest of the blood vessel. So a build up takes place.
It doesn't matter what the person eats. But of course if we blame it on diet then it blurs the issue and opens the way for drug therapies because the person won't get well. '
Knowledge is the key. How is the stress caused?
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The Paleo diet regimen is an effort to eat like we used to again in the day…means again in the day. If a caveman could not devour it, neither can you. [Link] This means anything we might hunt or to find – meats, fish, nuts, leafy vegetables, regional veggies, and seeds. Sorry, the pasta, cereal, and candy will have to go!
I am a severely obese woman aged 38, 5'6 and 330lbs. I need some help. I have been to my doctor and had all my blood tests done including an echo and holter monitor and everything checks out good. Kidneys, thyroid, heart and cholesterol are normal and i am not pre-diabetic. I have just started a strict low carb high fat diet and i am so scared it will give me a heart attack or damage my heart from all of the fat intake. I am only consuming animals fats in small amounts, olive oils, cheeses and small amounts of heavy cream daily along with my 20 veggie carbs. Do i need to be worried about my heart with my weight and age?
I would try the cassiopaea.org forum, which is linked to sott.net. Many knowledgeable and good people give solid advice. There are subsections on dieting, especially paleo, ketogenic.
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I'm publishing an update food reservation app on Nokia store (v 1.1) and now I'm getting this error from QA (previously was not there)
SUMMARY: The application does not prompt (active consent) the user for permission to use Location Data. User permission is required in order for the application to use Location Data.
CORRECTIVE ACTIONS: Please implement active consent by creating a prompt to ask the user's permission to use Location Data. The prompt must appear before Location Data is used.
NOTE: The application must also include an "OPT-OUT" feature that disables the use of Location Data.
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First we'll talk basics, design process, resources, paper drafting. Later we'll talk digitizing and sizing patterns, writing instructions, graphics, distribution and the rest.
How I started a Pattern Company with no money.
Ok, that's not entirely true. I already owned Illustrator, the program I use to draft, and Photoshop, another program I use. And I don't count fabric, tools and supplies for samples, because I would probably buy that stuff anyway. And I make PDF patterns, not pre-printed patterns which would have a big up front cost. But it did take time. A lot of time. So I'll give you the short version of how I started making patterns and how I do it now.
In the beginning there was a pattern - The Pattern Making Process
I think some people (or maybe just me) think that pattern drafting is something foreign and confusing and too difficult to learn. But then I bought some simple pattern alteration books which teach you how to manipulate simple patterns into new looks. I used the same techniques on other patterns I already owned. I took a basic pattern making class locally that helped as well.
Eventually I got good enough and developed basic blocks that I used to alter to make my own patterns. I have a t-shirt block, an a-line skirt block, a two-dart bodice block and a shorts block (a simpler version of these shorts).
A block is a very simple pattern that you copy to make into other patterns. A sloper is similar to a block but contains no ease. A block already has ease built in. Pattern drafting is really is nothing more than manipulating blocks. Rarely will I draft a major piece completely from scratch (I don't count collars, cuffs, waistbands, etc as major pieces). It's all about using base patterns and making changes.
From there I experimented with Adobe Illustrator with making print-at-home patterns that I gave away for free. If you look at some of those old patterns compared to the most recent one you'll notice a huge difference in labeling and instructions. The pieces still work fine but all the details are much better now.
How can I learn, too?
Ok, so let's assume you know little about drafting. Where to start?
If you can't take a class, read a book.
There is no book better than Patternmaking for Fashion Design when it comes to drafting. It's a college level textbook and it is expensive, even used, but it is worth it. Try to get the newest edition that you can, it has more info on knits, children's and specialty drafting. The book covers three basic concepts: dart manipulation, fullness and contours which are all fancy words for making 2D paper shape around a 3D figure. Grading doesn't come in to play much.
I like the Built by Wendy books. They're best for people who are fast learners and don't need a ton of direction but want a fun way to alter patterns to make their own designs.
Some others are Design-it-Yourself Clothes which teaches you very basic drafting techniques based on your own set of measurements.
How to Use, Adapt and Design Sewing Patterns is more manipulation than drafting from scratch but it's more detailed than the BbW books.
Here are a couple links for manual grading. It's good to understand how this works compared to grading on the computer.
This is just pattern drafting and adapting, not fitting. Fitting is a whole other concept that I won't go into here.
I come up with ideas all the time but only a few make it to the drafting stage (because drafting takes a long time and I'm lazy). Mostly I try to focus on one standout element of a garment and try to keep everything else simple, like a bow neckline for this top, tulip sleeves for this dress, buttons and a curved hem for these shorts.
Also, don't get discouraged if you find another garment that looks exactly like your design. Nothing is original. We all have two arms and two legs (unless, of course, you don't…) and there are only so many kinds of sleeves in the world. If you thought up a cool idea for a dress, odds are someone else has, and Forever 21 probably copied it, too. Make what you'd like to wear.
Paper drafting and Samples
Once I get an idea I start drafting. Remember those blocks I talked about before? I start from there. I never draft from scratch unless I don't have a block that would work. Then I alter and manipulate block pieces as needed.
Here's how I made the back bodice piece for the back-cut-out dress sketch shown above. I started with a one dart back bodice piece (I drew over the dart so you could see it easier) without seam allowances. Then I moved that dart around a dozen times 'cause I didn't really know what I wanted to do with it. I drew my new lines at the shoulder (I'm making a boat neckline), the waist and to the center back. After that I retraced the pattern piece and cut it out.
Once I make all my pieces I'll make muslins if needed and do necessary changes to the paper pattern. By the time I'm done I have a pattern which includes all pieces and has seam allowance.
Then I'll make my first finished sample.
Once I have a sample along with a finished paper pattern I can then digitize it. That's the fun part that you're all looking forward to, right?
Well, we had to get through of all this to get to the computer part. Next time I'll talk about transferring the pattern pieces to the computer, making a size chart, grading the patterns and dealing with troubleshooting, oh, and a lot of math!


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