Many people get through the holidays and then do what? They go on
a diet in an attempt to lose those holiday pounds. But what’s the
best diet to help you lose weight? After all, there are hundreds
of different diets out there.
I get lots of different health news and information sent to me and
an article by a heart surgeon caught my attention. I’ve kept the
article in its entirety and I recommend you take a few minutes to
read it. It’s very informative. The article discusses the myths
and dangers of the “low fat” diet.
Enjoy!
Heart Surgeon Says Low Fat Is A Big Fat Lie
By Dwight Lundell MD
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.
Note: 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.
Dr. Lundell is the author of the world-wide bestselling book, The
Great Cholesterol Lie. This book is a revealing look at heart
disease and the faulty theories of low-fat diets and cholesterol.
He also reveals his clinically-tested recommendations for lowering
inflammation that can prevent and reverse heart disease.
I hope you enjoyed the article. If you have any questions, feel
free to email me!
Sincerely,
Dr. JustinTrosclair
