Re: About the cholesterol issue and heart attack scare

September 25, 2006

--- Mehner <valiegal50@...> wrote:

> What happened to me on Friday set me off. I fixed

> a big bag of candida safe foods for breakfast,

> lunch, and supper as I knew that I would be leaving

Hi again Val..

I'm not Bee, but I hope you don't mind me responding

to this message. It sounds like you had a really

difficult challenge on friday.

I had something similar happen to me when I was in bed

for three days with a migraine. My days always start

with planning and cooking my food for the day.

But with the migraine I didn't eat for three days, and

when I finally barely stumbled out of bed starving, I

wasn't up to cooking and ate some processed meat and

fruit because it was easy to grab.

After that experience I realized that I need to have a

back up plan, because for me eating this way is a very

important thing.

oing off plan even just a little means cravings,

terrible physical symptoms for a long period of time,

so I use strategies to support myself.

So what I did was cook up some chicken and green beans

in coconut oil and stick it in the fridge. So now,

all I would have to do is stick that in the toaster

oven, no real cooking (or energy required).

I also plan to stock up on canned meat and veggies

(better than processed foods) in case of emergency or

disaster.

I know this wouldn't help in your situation but here's

another idea specific to you. Maybe you can make

yourself some homemade beef jerky (ask if you need an

oven recipe - I can send to you) and keep it in your

car.

Or perhaps some canned meat and veggies and a can

opener in you car. This way if something happens to

your food again you have a back up.

One time my son knocked my food onto the floor and I

had to cook it again.. good thing it was a weekend. I

have found for me it is so critical I stay on plan I

have all sorts of strategies and back up plans just in

case.

If I were in that situation I would have said I'm not

feeling well, I need to go home. Or I would have said

I have severe wheat allergies and I need to go get

some appropriate food.

Or I'm diabetic and I can't eat all that sugar or I

will get sick. I would have probably cancelled one of

my appts. But that's just me, I don't know what your

work situation is.

Eating this way is a huge priority for me and maybe

it's selfish but I can't take care of others when I'm

sick. So if I have to put other people off to take

care of myself I do.

> Bee, the question I have concerns cholesteral. I

> know and have read the things that you have written

> about the theory of the medical beliefs on this.

I have similar concerns although I have no problem

believing cholesterol is a non-issue. My concerns

about cholesterol were more because even though I

don't care about the issue, I know others do, and I'd

love to be able to hold up my results and wave them in

their face.

They are much better than they used to be but still

need some work. I figure if I eat this way with lots

of fat and my good cholesterol goes up and bad

cholesterol goes down, that's good enough.

If it doesn't, it won't change the way I am eating,

because I don't need any convincing that this is the

way I should eat. Just how good I feel and the

results I've gotten with my weight and health are

proof enough for me.

As far as why you have family members that had

cholesterol in their arteries, let me give you an

analogy.

What do you put in your engine when you want to

lubricate it? Oil right? Now what happens if you put

sugar in your engine. It gets sticky and gums up

right?

Well your body works very much the same way. The more

sugar you put in your body, the more it makes the oil

in your body sticky, and it sticks and clogs the

arteries.

You must have oil to lubricate your body. Hormones

are created from cholesterol, 70 or 80 percent (never

remember the exact figure) of your brain is

cholesterol, your skin needs it, etc.

What you don't need is sugar.. your body can create

all the sugar it needs, which isn't much.

Hope this helps some Val.. hang in there..

Luv,

Debby

San , CA

It is a lot easier to act ourselves into new thinking than to think ourselves

into a new action.

My son Hunter Hudson (10/11/04) http://debbypadilla.0catch.com/hunter/

September 25, 2006

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> Today I had to be gone most of the day, as it was a day off. My

husband and I went on a color tour and took a ski lift up to the top

of a mountain to view the colors. At a restaurant nearby I ate some

soup and caved into a piece of rich dessert. Well, all the way home I

had a heavy feeling in my chest, heartburn, and shortness of breath.

I was getting so nervous about it being a heart attack. Well, it

subsided a couple of hours later, but I'm concerned as I'm diabetic

and have had high blood pressure in the past. I know that your diet

is the best for keeping my blood sugar under control and my blood

pressure down. That is one reason that I should stay with it always.

Try convincing myself of this. I've tried and tried, and failed

miserably. I hope that I haven't damaged my heart with all of the no-

no foods I've eaten lately.

==>Your heart isn't so easily damaged by a couple of days of

indescretions.

>

> Bee, the question I have concerns cholesteral. I know and have

read the things that you have written about the theory of the medical

beliefs on this. Well, I need to know what you feel is causing people

to have heart attacks and hardening of the arteries. The reason I ask

is that this has been running rampent in our family for years. My

mother comes from a large family and all of her brothers and sisters

have had heart problems, strokes, many have died young, did not

smoke, were not overweight, nor did any of them have diabetes. Most

of them ate fairly well. They were raised on a farm and ate lots of

veggies, meat, eggs, lard, butter and fat off the meat. Now I don't

think that this was the cause of their heart problems. I feel

strongly it is, that they got away from those good foods and

eventually turned to processed, boxed and rich sweets, white flour,

high carbs, and bad fats ie: margarines, canola, and shortenings. I'm

sure you would agree here. BUT, what I don't understand is, If the

cholesterol theory is false, why did they all get clogged arteries

that caused strokes and heart disease???

Val, the worst foods for people that are malnourished and tend to

have heart problems, strokes, etc. are sugar, high carbs and

particularly bad fats and oils, along with all of the toxins in

processed foods and grains, seeds, nuts and legumes that are not

properly prepared. The body doesn't even make cholesterol from fats

however, it makes it from carbs. The major problem with bad fats is

that the body uses it to make cell membranes, which makes them weak

and flabby, which makes weak hearts, arteries, veins, etc., etc.

Healthy cells must be 50% good saturated fats. Go to

www.westonaprice.org and start reading articles about the causes of

heart disease, or go to The Optimal Diet websites (I don't have time

to look up the URLS, but they are in our Links. Dr. Jan K. has been

practicing in Poland for over 30 years and he cures heart disease,

diabetes, etc. with The Optimal Diet but it has high good saturated

fats which are the ratios of protein to fat to carbs I recommend.

>The numbers showed high cholestoral in each one. And many had

bypasses and arteriorgrams that showed a buildup of plaque and

cholesteral. If that is not true about plaque build-up, what did

cause this? My one uncle had a stroke and no longer can talk. He was

only 60, when he had it, and it was discovered that he had a 90%

blockage in his neck arteries. My dad died suddenly of a heart attack

and also had high cholesterol. You can see my concern here, and why

I'm worried about my family history. Please explain or direct me to

some sources to understand this better. I'm a researcher on health

issues and need to understand this better. I really try to look at

both the medical and alternative health, side of things. And I'm

going 80-90% alternative. And I also need to be more convincing to my

family about the cholesterol issue. Thank you Bee, and

> I'm sorry this is so long. Val

You inherit both of your parents " nutritional status " upon conception

and DNA is influenced and can be changed by nutrition. Also see

www.thincs.org which is a group of doctors and others who do not

believe in the cholesterol theory. Dr. Uffe Ravnkov wrote the book

Cholesterol Myths.

Bee

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September 26, 2006

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> Bee, the question I have concerns cholesterol. I know and have