This is another confirmation about the lie on cholesterol as reported by Jon Hering , Editorial Director of Total Health BreakThroughs
Heart Surgeon Says Low Fat is
a Big Fat Lie
By Dr. Dwight Lundell, M.D.
What you are about to read requires an open mind. You have to look at facts
instead of massive advertising and failed, faulty theories. Are you ready?
Fact: From 1900 to 1980, obesity rates in the US
remained stable at 14% to 15% of the population. Since 1980, however, obesity
rates have skyrocketed. Today, nearly 66% of the population is overweight or
obese. This spike is directly linked to the US Department of Agriculture's
(USDA) creation of the food pyramid, advocating 11 daily servings of grains and
cereals. This is not a coincidence.
For most of my 25 year career and 5,000 heart surgeries, I accepted low-fat
dieting theories. I also believed the theory that dietary cholesterol was a
primary cause of heart disease. But as heart disease continued to soar, year
after year, my doubts began to haunt me.
I treated thousands of patients after they became ill. The question that
haunted me was what was causing heart disease, obesity and diabetes in the
first place? As I examined the data, it was clear that these conditions spiked
in the 1980s and continued to climb.
Study after study has demonstrated the negative effects of consuming a
grain-based, low-fat, high-sugar diet. On the other hand, there is no credible
evidence to suggest that a low-fat diet equals lower incidences of heart
disease and obesity. In fact, all the evidence proves otherwise.
The low-fat and cholesterol theories are based on incomplete science.
"We are what we eat" is a slogan that is often repeated. But it is
not quite accurate. Instead of focusing on what we put inside our bodies, we
should focus on how our bodies metabolize the foods we put there. And how we
metabolize low-fat, high-sugar and grain-based foods is clearly reflected in
obesity and heart disease statistics.
Fact: 65% of the nation is overweight or obese. More people
develop heart disease today than ever before at an earlier age. Every 34
seconds a person in this country loses their life to a heart attack. That's
2,500 a day.
The National Institutes of Health, the National Cholesterol
Education Program, the American Heart Association, the US
Department of Agriculture and a host of other medical organizations
continue to promote a low-fat diet and statin medications to reduce
cholesterol.
These organizations are wrong, but to admit it threatens their bottom line.
You don't have time to wait for government, the medical community and food
manufacturers to admit their mistake. And you can stop blaming yourself for
excess pounds and ill-health, if you have faithfully followed their mistaken
regime. Your life and health happens now and it's in your control.
The cholesterol and low-fat theories are firmly planted in our
consciousness. From the advice of our physicians, to the TV ads for statin
drugs, to the grocery store aisles packed with low-fat foods... these faulty
theories are reinforced at every turn. Their powerful marketing may be
persuasive, but it is not scientific fact.
Here's the first step that will go a long way to improving your health.
Return to the diet of your grandparents, before governments and food
manufacturers declared war on fat and real food to fit faulty theories. Your
grandparents were not afraid to drink real milk and eat eggs, butter and red
meat.
I am not advocating these foods in large quantities. But their elimination,
in favor of low-fat, high-sugar, grain-based foods has resulted in inflammation
and staggering rates of obesity.
Packaged low-fat foods created for shelf life - not human life - never
touched your grandparents' plates. Hydrogenated omega-6 vegetable oils and
margarine were not even invented. For your grandparents, sugar was a treat
reserved for special occasions. Today, it has become a daily staple.
The drug companies have done a magnificent job convincing us that we cannot
get well without medication. This is not true. Your body is a tremendous,
self-healing organism. When you consume real food and essential nutrients, it
will respond and flourish.
Low-fat packaged foods, filled with sugar and omega-6 oils, strongly
contribute to inflammation. This is the true cause of heart disease, diabetes
and a host of other diseases. There is no better time than right now to
understand how the faulty cholesterol theory created an epidemic of
inflammation and what you can do about it. You only have one heart. Keeping it healthy is not nearly as difficult as you might
think.
Jon Herring’s note about Dr. Lundell: Dr. Dwight Lundell is
the past Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner
Heart Hospital,
Mesa, AZ. He
is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation and Chief Medical Advisor for
Asantae. In 2003, Dr. Lundell made the most difficult decision of his 25 year
surgical career.As traditional medicine continued to chase the cholesterol
theory of heart disease, Dr. Lundell closed his surgical practice. He then
devoted the rest of his life to speaking the truth that inflammation causes
heart disease. By lowering inflammation, heart disease has a cure.
Visit Jon Herrings in this site:
www.totalhealthbreakthroughs.com/experts/
and Dr. Dwight Lundell in:
thecholesterolliereview.com/dr-dwight-lundell/