Guest guest Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake!Sunday, 12 July, 2009, 1:57 AM Hi there, This article is informative and was prepared by a very experienced past Chief of Staff and Chief ofSurgery at Banner Heart Hospital, Mesa, AZ. It cannot be a bull shit article. Without inflammation, cholesterol would not accumulate in wall of blood vessel and cause heart diseaseHeart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake!By Dwight Lundell, MDPart 1 of a 2-part articleWe physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries,today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result inmalpractice.It Is Not Working!These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible.The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is thereal cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in howheart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics ofobesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historicalplague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statinmedications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of ourdiets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 millionAmericans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetesand 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting youngerand younger people in greater numbers every year.Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is noway that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel andcause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol wouldmove freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammationthat causes cholesterol to become trapped.Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's naturaldefense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. Thecycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from thesebacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the bodyto injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation isjust as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foodsor other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well,smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet thatis low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, notknowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. Thisrepeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease,stroke, diabetes and obesity. Let me repeat that. The injury andinflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet that hasbeen recommended for years by mainstream medicine.What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, theyare the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flourand all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in manyprocessed foods.In Part 2 of this two-part article, I'll discuss which foods causeinflammation, how those foods trigger the inflammatory process, and thefoods to eat that will cure inflammation.Part 2by Dwight Lundell MD 02/06/2009Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skinuntil it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. Let’s say you kept this upseveral times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate thispainful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area thatbecame worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualizethe inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally orinternally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousandsof arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush andscrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, thefoods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causingthe body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respondalarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loadedwith sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils forlong shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for sixdecades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation tomake you sick?Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of whatoccurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such assugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretesinsulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it isstored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it isrejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works..When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producingmore insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlledin a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety ofproteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injuryto the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your bloodsugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like takingsandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it inover 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one commondenominator — inflammation in their arteries.Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not onlycontains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean.Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods aremanufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6’s areessential –they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes inand out of the cell — they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s.If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membraneproduces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance ofthese two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causinginflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimaland healthy.To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eatingthese foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities ofpro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having highblood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a viciouscycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetesand finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continuesunabated.There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared andprocessed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by littleeach day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume,foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning tofoods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein.Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits andvegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation-causing omega-6 fatslike corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely tocause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeledpolyunsaturated. Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your headfor decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease isnon-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol isalso very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause ofheart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that inturn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation.Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people toavoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have anepidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and othersilent killers.What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and notthose your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufacturedfoods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrientsfrom fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in yourarteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical Americandiet.[Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief ofSurgery at Banner Heart Hospital, Mesa, AZ. His private practice, CardiacCare Center was in Mesa, AZ. Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery to focus onthe nutritional treatment of heart disease. He is the founder of HealthyHumans Foundation that promotes human health with a focus on helping largecorporations promote wellness. He is the author of The Cure for HeartDisease and The Great Cholesterol Lie ) Get your preferred Email name! Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com. With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.386 / Virus Database: 270.13.20/2251 - Release 07/20/09 18:29:00 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Hello, Could I get a link to this article, please. Thanks, Josephine P.s. as an added note, heart surgeons must have made a " killing " on people who suffered from heart disease, eh? Wonder how much this guy made before he became " enlightened? " > Without inflammation, cholesterol would not accumulate in wall of blood vessel and cause heart disease > > Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake! > By Dwight Lundell, MD > > Part 1 of a 2-part article > > We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, > today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact. > > I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled " opinion makers. " Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol. > > The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in > malpractice. > > It Is Not Working! > > These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. > The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the > real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how > heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated. > > The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of > obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical > plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences. > > Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin > medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our > diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before. > > Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million > Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes > and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger > and younger people in greater numbers every year. > > Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no > way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and > cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would > move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation > that causes cholesterol to become trapped. > > Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's natural > defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The > cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these > bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body > to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, > a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is > just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial. > > What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods > or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, > smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully. > > The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that > is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not > knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This > repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, > stroke, diabetes and obesity. Let me repeat that. The injury and > inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet that has > been recommended for years by mainstream medicine. > > What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they > are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour > and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 > vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many > processed foods. > > In Part 2 of this two-part article, I'll discuss which foods cause > inflammation, how those foods trigger the inflammatory process, and the > foods to eat that will cure inflammation. > > Part 2 > by Dwight Lundell MD 02/06/2009 > > Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin > until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. Let's say you kept this up > several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this > painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that > became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize > the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now. > > Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or > internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands > of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and > scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the > foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing > the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation. > > While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond > alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded > with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for > long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six > decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone. > > How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to > make you sick? > > Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what > occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as > sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes > insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is > stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is > rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.. > > When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing > more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat. > > What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled > in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of > proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury > to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your blood > sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking > sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels. > > While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in > over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common > denominator — inflammation in their arteries. > > Let's get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only > contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. > Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are > manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6's are > essential –they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in > and out of the cell — they must be in the correct balance with omega-3's. > > If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane > produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation. > Today's mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of > these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 > in favor of omega-6. That's a tremendous amount of cytokines causing > inflammation. In today's food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal > and healthy. > > To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating > these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of > pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high > blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious > cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes > and finally, Alzheimer's disease, as the inflammatory process continues > unabated. > > There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and > processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little > each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, > foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils. > > There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to > foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. > Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and > vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation-causing omega-6 fats > like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them. > One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains > 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef. > > Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to > cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled > polyunsaturated. Forget the " science " that has been drummed into your head > for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is > non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is > also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of > heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today. > > The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in > turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. > Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to > avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an > epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other > silent killers. > > What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not > those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured > foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients > from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your > arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American > diet. > > [Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of > Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital, Mesa, AZ. His private practice, Cardiac > Care Center was in Mesa, AZ. Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery to focus on > the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He is the founder of Healthy > Humans Foundation that promotes human health with a focus on helping large > corporations promote wellness. He is the author of The Cure for Heart > Disease and The Great Cholesterol Lie ) > > > > ------------------------------- > Get your preferred Email name! > Now you can @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com. > > > > > > > > > -- > With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. > > > > > > > -- > With Windows Live, you can organize, edit, and share your photos. > > > > > > -- > > > > > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.386 / Virus Database: 270.13.20/2251 - Release 07/20/09 18:29:00 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 http://www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com/2009/02/heart-surgeon-admits-huge-mistak\ e/ On Jul 21, 2009, at 1:34 PM, jlkinkona wrote: > Hello, > Could I get a link to this article, please. > Thanks, > Josephine > > P.s. as an added note, heart surgeons must have made a " killing " on > people who suffered from heart disease, eh? Wonder how much this guy > made before he became " enlightened? " > > > > > >> Without inflammation, cholesterol would not >> accumulate in wall of blood vessel and cause heart disease >> >> Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake! >> By Dwight Lundell, MD >> >> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 Josephine; http://www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com/2009/02/heart-surgeon-admits-huge-mistake/ as an aside... I am pleased to see a medic admit he has been wrong...... even IF at one time they made $$$, now hopefully they will plow those $$$ into community education. Just my ten cents worth. Even my own GP has agreed with me over the inflammation caused cholesterol build up theory....... get your inflammation reduced and your numbers go down. Also worth noting they have proven that those UGLY STATINS only have any effect .... if they have any effect, it is by virtue of the very small reduction in inflammation they cause, which as you and I both know can be effected far more naturally with fish iols and other 'natural' non prescription methods. Have a great day! Clare in T Hello,Could I get a link to this article, please.Thanks,JosephineWe physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. http://www.livestrong.com/health-article/heart-surgeon-admits-huge-mistake_5e4cee6e-1355-f154-f54e-83b7754102d1/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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