When a Heart Surgeon Speaks…
You, Dear Reader, should listen. This may very well be the piece of reading that saves your life.
I’ve written in this space many times about the dangers of carbohydrates and their ability to kill the body. I told you about insulin and the inflammation it causes. It’s not red meat that clogs your arteries. It’s carbohydrates. We don’t get fat due to excessive calories. We get fat because of inflammation. What causes inflammation? Insulin and its effects on the body. The problem is too much insulin, not too many calories. Don’t even think about exercise. Exercise might buy you some time but if you’re eating carbohydrates, it’s only a matter of time. Exercise cannot and will not reverse the effects of insulin. It will merely prolong them.
Do yourself a favor and click the link above. Read what Dr. Dwight Lundell, M.D. has to say about arteries and inflammation. He has looked into thousands of arteries and knows precisely the mechanism for heart disease. After you read it, I encourage you to get a copy to anyone you care about.
Have a great weekend!
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on March 4, 2012 at 1:29 pm
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Interesting read. Of course, it doesn’t matter how many times one has looked into arteries, since truth doesn’t come to us via our senses. People looked up at the stars for thousands of years every night without learning anything about them.
What is missing is a good explanation for why eating certain foods causes the inflammation and others don’t. Glycation might explain why high blood sugar is bad. Oxidative damage might explain why certain unsaturated oils are bad.
Also, crucially, why do most people *prefer* to eat foods that are unhealthy in these ways?
I think you’ve mentioned addiction before and I agree — many people are emotionally dependent on the food they eat and find it hard to change their diets and/or cease being dependent on large amounts of unhealthy foods. We accept that former alcoholics have a permanently altered relationship with alcohol, but food remains in a different category.
Isaac Asimov’s Law of Dietetics: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
In other words, we only get addicted to stuff that’s bad for our physical health.
‘Getting high’ may also be a factor in the arterial damage, since it seems to entail increased heart rate and blood pressure. Notably, getting high doesn’t depend directly on the substance consumed, but one’s *mental interpretation* of the experience.
on March 13, 2012 at 11:51 am
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Those were good observations, Thomas, and thanks again for reading.
You raise very good points, although taste is a very subjective thing. I believe it was the Frenchman who said that “taste comes with the eating.” The most flavorful and delicious meals usually are experienced when we are at our hungriest. The hungrier we are, the better the food is likely to taste. Carbohydrates offer instant gratification. They provide all sorts of sensations to the palate. Meat doesn’t immediately do that unless, of course, you season the mess out of it so that it does something to your taste buds. Meat shows it’s power once it goes down. It doesn’t leave you all shaky or euphoric. You get the feeling that you’ve just fueled up and taken care of any deficient situation that might have been present. Then, it’s on with your day.
Yes, carbohydrates are the stuff of addiction and we’ve certainly seen enough to suggest that the reward center is working on overdrive when consuming these things. It’s very clear that we don’t purposefully damage ourselves. People truly believe that they are doing something healthy or at least, not that bad to themselves. The “moderation” argument is very powerful and people think it’s within their ability to do that. They have no idea that it takes far more than just cutting back in order to be healthy after damaging their metabolism.