Heart Surgeon on What Causes Heart Disease.
yup. inflammation from dietary choices is a primary factor leading to many diseases including heart disease and IBD (i have personal experience with the latter). there have been studies on this and the ineffectiveness of statins, for awhile now. it just rarely gets into mass media because that would mean processed food industry and pharmaceuticals would take a hit. can't have that now can we.
http://www.thebigfatsurprise.com/
this author dispels the history of the anti fat crusade. fascinating interview on the cee bee cee with her. the great news for me- fat is fucking awesome, eat away. the bad news? man i eat way too much carbs…
http://www.thebigfatsurprise.com/
this author dispels the history of the anti fat crusade. fascinating interview on the cee bee cee with her. the great news for me- fat is fucking awesome, eat away. the bad news? man i eat way too much carbs…
The problem is and has always been sedentary lifestyle + bad food choices. In the late 1970s-early 1980s food manufacturers cut down on fat and replaced it with sugar. Combine highly processed food (basically sugar+fat+salt) with sedentary lifestyle and its hardly a mystery that obesity, high blood pressure, cardiac disease and diabetes rates have skyrocketed. (I'm talking about people without pre-existing health problems).
BTW, heart surgeon guy above lost his medical license in 2008 after 5 regulatory actions by the Arizona Medical Board between 2000-2008. He also served 4 years in jail for tax fraud. He now pedals supplements and a paid subscription site for advice on weight loss and cardiac health. (Not saying everything he says has no validity, but some of his claims do fly in the face of accepted medical evidence. His take on effectiveness of statins is probably true for a lot of cases).
http://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/lundell.html
I'm assuming the assertions of the above website have not been challenged in the last 2 years or so it has been around, as they would be deemed libelous if untrue.
http://www.thebigfatsurprise.com/
this author dispels the history of the anti fat crusade. fascinating interview on the cee bee cee with her. the great news for me- fat is fucking awesome, eat away. the bad news? man i eat way too much carbs…
Get the podcast "Fat doesn't make you fat", and a follow up interview with Health Canada "Health Canada: Canadian diets shouldn't be no fat, but low fat" from: https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/current-from-cbc-radio-highlights/
The author's story about the problem with Ansel Key's research and the resulting run down the "low fat" rabbit hole has been documented elsewhere too. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html and Lustig's book "Fat Chance".
It seems like conventional wisdom is swinging away from the low fat mantra, and that heart disease and metabolic disease and obesity are linked to carbs and not fat. I am not a doctor, but my own change in diet from "lots o carbs in the form of bread, pasta, and rice (not sweet stuff for the most part)" to a "very low carb but tons of everything else including dairy fat, meat fat, meat, vegetables and some fruit" dropped me quite of bit of excess weight AND more importantly improved my blood analysis a LOT.
So, I am a believer. Paleo diet, Atkins diet, whatever - just limit the carbs seems to be the key.
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