Editor’s Comments: Many people think that just because they are young and appear fit, they can abuse their body by eating deep-fried and pan-fried food; they seem to think that oily food will not hurt them and that they are not able to have or get heart disease simply because they exercise and look fit. This is simply not true at all.
When oil is heated, it becomes rancid and poisonous to the human body. It is refined; it does not contain any other nutrient. It is 100% fat. This toxic abuse stresses the nervous system and takes away the nervous systems ability to heal the every day damage that is received uncontrollably such as pollution.
Oil is 100% fat; it is refined: stripped of macro- and micro-nutrients (Vitamins, minerals, anti-oxidants, enzymes, co-enzymes, phytonutrients, essential fatty acids, protein and carbohydrates).
The following article and study support the believe this editor has that most people that are fat definitely have some stage of heart disease, and they must do something to prevent a heart attack before it is too late.
Building heart disease by eating fried food is a self-affliction more dangerous than most peoples simple mind can understand. It is suggested that those people change before it is too late. If you eat oily food, fatty food, junk food, and cannot see your abdomen muscles, you are fat and well on your way to heart disease (Not to mention under-muscled).
Over the next twenty-four hours, 3,000 Americans will have heart attacks, roughly the same number of people who perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
The heart is the centerpiece of life and, more often than not in America; it is the centerpiece of death. Malfunction of the heart and/ or circulation system will kill 40% of Americans, more than those killed by any other injury or ailment, including cancer. Heart disease has been our number one cause of death for almost one hundred years. This disease does not recognize gender or race boundaries; all are affected. If you were to ask most women what disease poses the greatest risk to them, heart disease or breast cancer, many women would undoubtedly say breast cancer. But they would be wrong. Women’s death rate from heart disease is eight times higher than their death rate from breast cancer.
If there is an American game, it is baseball; an American dessert, apple pie. If there is an American disease, it is heart disease.
At the end of the Korean War, a landmark scientific study was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Military medical investigators had examined the hearts of 300 male soldiers killed in action in Korea. The soldiers, at an average age of twenty-two years, had never been diagnosed with heart problems. In dissecting these hearts, researchers found startling evidence of disease in an exceptional number of cases. Fully 77.3% of the heats they examined had gross Evidence of heart disease. (In this instance, gross means large.)
That number, 77.3%, is startling. Coming at a time when our number one killer was still shrouded in mystery, the research clearly demonstrated that heart disease develops over an entire lifetime. Furthermore, almost everyone was susceptible! These soldiers were not couch- potato slouches; they were in top condition in the prime of their physical lives. Since that time, several other studies have confirmed that heart disease is pervasive in young Americans.
But what is heart disease? One of the key components is plaque. One out of twenty diseased men had so much plaque that 90% of an artery was blocked. Why hadn’t these soldiers had a heart attack already? After all, only 10% of the artery was open. How could that be enough? It turns out that if the plaque on the inner wall of the artery accumulates slowly, over several years, blood flow has time to adjust. Think of blood flowing through your artery as a raging river. If you put a few stones on the sides of a river every day over a period of years, like plaque accumulating on the walls of the artery, the water will find another way to get to where it wants to be. Maybe the river will form smaller streams over the stones.
When the artery becomes blocked over such a short period of time, there is little chance for collateral blood flow to develop. When this happens, blood flow downstream of the rupture is severely reduced and the heart muscles don’t get the oxygen they require. At this point, as heart muscles cells start to die, heart pumping mechanisms begin to fail, and the person may feel a crushing pain in the chest or a searing pain down into an arm and up into the neck and jaw. In short, the victim starts to die. This is the process behind most of the 1.1 million heart attacks that occur in America every year. One out of three people who have a heart attack will die from it.
We now know that the small to medium accumulation of plaque, the plaque that blocks less than 50% of the artery, is the most deadly.
Section 2
No study has been more influential than that of the Framingham Heart Study. After World War I, the National Heart Institute was created with a modest budget and a difficult mission. They didn’t know why these lesions developed or how they led to heart attacks. In search for these answers, the National Heart Institute decided to follow a population in the population and to see who got heart disease and who didn’t.
Over 5,000 residents of Framingham, both male and female, agreed to be poked and prodded by scientists over the years so that we might learn something about heart disease.
The Framingham Heart Study developed the concept of risk factors such as cholesterol, blood pressure, physical activity, cigarette smoking and obesity. Because of the Framingham Study, we now know that these risk factors play a prominent role in the causation of heart disease. Over 1,000 scientific papers have been published from this study, and the study continues to this day, having now studied four generations of Framingham residents.
The shining jewel of the Framingham Study is its findings on blood cholesterol. When this study was started, most doctors believed that heart disease was an inevitable wearing down of the body, and we could do little about it. Our hearts were like car engines. As we got older, the parts didn’t work as well and sometimes gave out. By demonstrating that we could see the disease in advance by measuring risk factors, the idea of preventing heart disease suddenly had validity. Researchers wrote, it appears that a prevention program is clearly necessary. We spend over 30 billion dollars a year on drugs to control these risk factors and other aspects of cardiovascular disease.
Early research led to the alarming conclusion that we have some of the highest rates of heart disease in the world. The Papua New Guinea Highlanders, for example, pop up in research quite a bit because heart disease is rare in their society. American men died from heart disease at a rate almost seventeen times higher than their Chinese counterparts. Why were we succumbing to heart disease in the sixties and seventies, when much of the world was relatively unaffected?
Quite simply, it was a case of death by food. The cultures that have lower heart disease rates eat less saturated fat and animal protein and more whole grains, fruit and vegetables. In other words, they subsist mostly on plant foods while we subsist mostly on animal foods. For example, Japanese men who live in Hawaii or California have a much higher living in Japan.
Smoking habits are not the cause because men in Japan, who were more likely to smoke, still had less coronary heart disease than the Japanese Americans. In simple terms, animal foods were linked to higher blood cholesterol; plant foods were linked to lower blood cholesterol.
Research ahead of its time
One of the most progressive doctors was Dr. Lester Morrison of Angeles. He started a study in 1946 (two years before the Framingham Study) to determine the relationship to dietary fat intake to the incidence of atherosclerosis. In his study he instructed fifty heart attack survivors to maintain their normal diet and fifty different heart attack survivors to consume an experimental diet.
After eight years, only twelve of fifty people eating their normal American Diet were alive (24%). In the diet group, twenty-eight people were still alive (56%), almost two and one-half times the amount of survivors in the control group. After twelve years, every single patient in the control group was dead. In the diet group, however, nineteen people were still alive, a survival rate of 38%.
Today, this epic battle between defenders of the status quo and advocates of diet is as strong as ever. Mostly, the status quo has been protected. Despite the potential of diet and disease prevention, most of the attention given to heart disease has been on mechanical and chemical intervention for those people who have advanced disease. Diet has been pushed aside. Surgery, drugs, electronics devices and new diagnostic tools have stolen the spotlight.
We now have coronary bypass surgery, where a healthy artery is pasted over a diseased artery, thereby bypassing the most dangerous plaque on the artery. The ultimate surgery, of course, is the heart transplant, which even utilizes an artificial heart on occasion. We also have a procedure that doesn’t require cracking the chest plate open, called coronary angioplasty, where a small balloon is inflated in a narrowed, diseased artery, squishing the plaque back against the wall, opening up the passage for increased blood flow. We have defibrillators so that few can observe individual arteries without having to expose the heart. The past fifty years have truly been a celebration of chemicals and technology (as opposed to diet and prevention).
Source: The China Study
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