Cardiovascular Diseases

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Cardiovascular Diseases

http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/cardiovascular.htmlIntroductionThere 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 reductionof blood cholesterol have uniformly failed.PROFESSOR SIR JOHN McMICHAEL

IntroductionPeople 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. BackgroundEver 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 helpDoctors 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.References1. 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