{"id":39020,"date":"2014-12-11T09:16:16","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T14:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=39020"},"modified":"2014-12-12T09:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T14:16:48","slug":"world-renown-heart-surgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/world-renown-heart-surgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"World renown heart surgeon speaks out on what really causes heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"

it’s not simply fat intake.\u00a0 Inflammation is the real culprit, and our system gets inflamed by non-nutritive foods like sugars, flours, starches – which is basically all packaged and processed foods. If it has a label with more than one ingredient, it is processed.\u00a0 Here are highlights of the article (full link below) :\u00a0 “The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease.\u00a0 These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that\u00a0inflammation in the artery wall\u00a0<\/strong>is the real cause of heart disease.\u00a0 <\/strong>Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.”\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Inflammation is not complicated \u2014 it is quite simply your body\u2019s natural defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we\u00a0chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called chronic inflammation.<\/strong>\u00a0 Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.”<\/p>\n

What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.<\/p>\n

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. you kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.<\/p>\n

Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.<\/p>\n

What you can do is choose\u00a0whole foods<\/strong>\u00a0your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from\u00a0fresh unprocessed food<\/strong>, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.”<\/p>\n

The entire article here –> World renown heart surgeon speaks out on what really causes heart disease<\/a><\/p>\n

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