Cardiovascular Diseases

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Cardiovascular Diseases

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Introduction

There are many conditions in Western industrialised societies today that

were unheard of, or at least very rare, just a century ago. The same conditions

are still unheard of in primitive peoples who do not have the 'benefits' of

our knowledge. There is a very good reason for this: They eat what Nature

intended; we don't.

The diseases caused by our incorrect and unnatural diets are those featured

on these pages.

 

Dietary causes: Carbohydrate-rich 'healthy' diet; polyunsaturated vegetable

oils and margarines, processed convenience foods.

 

 

 

All published efforts to help by drug or dietary reduction

of blood cholesterol have uniformly failed.

PROFESSOR SIR JOHN McMICHAEL

 

Introduction

 

People are exercising like crazy, changing their diets, gulping supplements,

and taking expensive drugs to lower their cholesterol. Yet none of this is

making a dent in heart attack statistics. Why? Because high cholesterol

doesn't cause heart disease. In this section we will look at the various

conditions

associated with the heart and blood system — and at the real dietary causes.

 

Background

 

Ever since 'healthy eating' was introduced in the 1980s, the establishment

has tried to show that a diet high in animal-fat is harmful. Yet not a single

trial has ever managed to do this. This might surprise you, but it should not

as it was shown as long ago as 1968 that 'hyperlipidaemia can be controlled

by a diet which is low in unsaturated fat . . .'[1] (emphasis added). You

see, the only fats that have ever been implicated in heart disease are the

'healthy' polyunsaturated vegetable oils. Yet, perversely, it is those fats that

we are told to eat more of!

 

Early testing doesn't help

 

Doctors reckon that, to reduce heart disease, it is necessary to screen for

the disease regularly so that it can be caught in its earliest stages and

treated before it gets too bad. Unfortunately, the figures don't support the

theory. Doctors in Canada and the USA ordered more cardiac tests and procedures

between 1993 and 2001 than ever before — yet there was no reduction in heart

attacks over the period. This is extremely worrying, they say, as all this

testing is pushing the Canadian health insurance system to breaking point and

heart care costs have doubled in the last decade.[2]

 

But early testing will never be of benefit if the follow-up therapy is based

on a flawed premise. The evidence shows is that it is carbs and

polyunsaturated fatty acids that increase the heart attack risk. Yet those are

exactly

the foods that people thought to be at risk of a heart attack are told to eat.

It's lunacy — and expensive lunacy, at that.

 

References

1. Editorial. Prevention of coronary heart disease. BMJ 1968; 2: 689-90.

2. Lucas FL, DeLorenzo MA, Siewers AE, Wennberg DE. Temporal Trends in the

Utilization of Diagnostic Testing and Treatments for Cardiovascular Disease in

the United States, 1993-2001. Circulation 2006; 113: 374-379