Got Heart Disease?

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Got Heart Disease?

 

Heart disease is America's number one killer, taking as many lives

as almost everything else combined. Every day, 3,000 Americans

suffer from heart attacks, and more than 1,200 of them die. Those

who don't die often suffer another heart attack later. Because we

now know what causes heart attacks, we can prevent them.

 

Since the early 1970s, study after study after study has implicated

cow's milk and other dairy products as a cause of heart disease and

clogged arteries. One researcher, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn from the

Cleveland Clinic (the top-rated heart clinic in the U.S.), makes

people " heart attack-proof " by putting them on a vegan diet (check

out his groundbreaking paper in the American Journal of Cardiology,

August 99).

 

It's not just the fat and cholesterol in dairy products, but also

the animal protein and milk carbohydrates that are linked to heart

disease, as the following studies show:

 

" International statistics indicate that there is a close correlation

between the consumption of saturated fats (dairy fats and meat fats)

and the mortality from coronary heart disease, and this conception

has been confirmed by many epidemiological studies, " concluded a

study published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart

Association. " Practically total replacement of dairy fats by

vegetable oils in the diets … was followed by a substantial

reduction in the mortality of men from coronary heart disease. Total

mortality also appeared to be reduced. " (1)

 

In a study published in the International Journal of Cardiology,

researchers studied seven countries with a high consumption of dairy

products and found that heart disease mortality rose as milk supply

rose. (2)

 

In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition,

researchers wrote, " Much evidence suggests that high consumption of

full-fat dairy products is likely to increase coronary heart disease

risk " and noted that " there are strong reasons to believe that a

causal association does exist. " (3)

 

Researchers who studied dietary links to heart disease in 32

countries found that, of all dietary factors studied, milk

carbohydrates played the biggest role in the development of heart

disease in men over 35, and nonfat milk played the biggest role in

the development of coronary heart disease in men over 45. (4)

 

Researchers studying 19 Western countries concluded that heart

disease mortality rises as consumption of milk protein rises. The

researchers noted, " Multiple regression analysis confirmed the

importance of the milk factor … as a determinant of variation in

ischemic heart disease mortality rates. " (5)

 

" Milk consumption is related to arteriosclerosis, " confirmed yet

another group of researchers. " Recent landmark studies confirm a

previously suspected close correlation between milk intake and

arteriosclerotic heart disease. " (6)

 

A study of food consumption and heart disease in 24 countries

concluded, " Direct, linear, and reasonably accurate correlation has

been found between coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates and

the consumption of unfermented milk proteins-namely the protein

content of all dairy products with the only important exception of

cheese. " (7)

 

" It is clear that saturated fats, mainly dairy fats, are closely

associated with the mortality rate from ischaemic heart disease, "

wrote researchers in the Journal of Internal Medicine. (8)

 

In a study published in Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular

Disease, researchers wrote, " a reduction in meat and dairy products

… will decrease other cardiovascular risk factors, particularly

cholesterol and glucose intolerance. This healthier diet will reduce

cardiovascular disease and is similar to the diet now being

advocated for the prevention of some forms of cancer. " They also

noted, " Diet is by far the most important environmental factor

determining our longevity, and for those who wish to live longer, a

change in diet as early in life as possible will have substantial

effects. " (9)

 

In a study published in The Lancet, researchers comparing heart

disease death rates with food intake found that the highest

correlation was with milk. " Changes in milk-protein consumption, up

or down, accurately predicted changes in coronary deaths four to

seven years later. " The researchers noted that their

analysis " strongly supports " previous conclusions that milk is the

principle dietary culprit in hardened, narrowed arteries and that

the problematic portion of milk is its protein, not its fat. (10)

 

A study published in the European Journal of Epidemiology found that

butter and milk consumption had a positive correlation with heart

disease. (11)

 

A study that compared coronary death rates with food intakes in 21

countries found that the food most highly correlated with coronary

deaths was milk. (12)

 

" Both cholesterol and saturated fat in your diet may increase blood

levels of cholesterol and increase the formation of plaque

(blockages) in your arteries, " says Dr. Dean Ornish of the

University of California at San Francisco, who has demonstrated that

artery blockages can be reversed with a low-fat vegan diet instead

of expensive and invasive surgeries. " [One] might consider switching

from nonfat milk to nonfat soy milk, as I have done. This will give

you a double benefit: Soy milk has no cholesterol, and soy products

may actually lower your blood cholesterol levels. "

 

The world-renowned health advisor to President Clinton, Dr. John

McDougall concurs: " The wisest way to prevent tragedies from a

defective blood vessel system is to deal with the cause: Your first-

line therapy should be a low-fat, no-cholesterol diet. "

 

 

 

1 Osmo Turpeinen, " Effect of Cholesterol-Lowering Diet on Mortality

From Coronary Heart Disease and Other Causes, " Circulation, 59, No.

1 (1979), 1-7.

 

2 J. Segall, " Dietary Lactose as a Possible Risk Factor for

Ischaemic Heart Disease: Review of Epidemiology, " International

Journal of Cardiology, 46, No. 3 (1994), 197-207.

 

3 Lawrence Kushi, Elizabeth Lenary, and Walter Willette, " Health

Implications of Mediterranean Diets in Light of Contemporary

Knowledge: Plant foods and Dairy Products. " American Journal of

Clinical Nutrition (suppl.), 61 (1995), 1407S-1415S.

 

4 William Grant, " Milk and Other Dietary Influences on Coronary

Heart Disease, " Alternative Medicine Review, 3, No. 4 (1998), 281-

294.

 

5 R. Popham, W. Schmidt, and Y. Israel, " Variation in Mortality From

Ischemic Heart Disease in Relation to Alcohol and Milk Consumption, "

Medical Hypotheses, 12, No. 4 (1983), 321-329.

 

6 P. Rank, " Milk and Arteriosclerosis, " Medical Hypotheses, 20, No.

3 (1986), 317-338.

 

7 S. Seely, " Diet and Coronary Disease: A Survey of Mortality Rates

and Food Consumption Statistics of 24 Countries, " Medical

Hypotheses, 7, No. 7 (1981), 907-918.

 

8 S. Renaud and M. de Lorgeril, " Dietary Lipids and Their Relation

to Ischaemic Heart Disease: From Epidemoiology to Prevention, "

Journal of Internal Medicine (suppl.), 225, No. 731 (1989), 39-46.

 

9 G. MacGregor, " Nutrition and Blood Pressure, " Nutrition,

Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Disease, 9, No. 4 (1999), 6-15.

 

10 F. Alamgir, J. Caplin, J. Cleland, M. Norell, and G.

Kaye, " Survival Trends, Coronary Event Rates, and the MONICA

Project, " The Lancet, 354 (4 Sep. 1999), pp. 862-863.

 

11 A. Menotti, D. Kromhout, H. Blackburn, F. Fidanza, R. Buzina, and

A. Nissinen, " Food Intake Patterns and 25-Year Mortality from

Coronary Heart Disease: Cross-Cultural Correlations in the Seven

Countries Study, " European Journal of Epidemiology, 15, No. 6

(1999), 507-515.

 

12 S. Seely, " Diet and Coronary Heart Disease: A Survey of Female

Mortality Rates and Food Consumption Statistics of 21 Countries, "

Medical Hypotheses, 7, No. 9 (1981), 1133-1137.

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