By Dr. Dwight Lundell MD 03/31/2010

During my 25 years as a cardiac surgeon, along with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion makers,” we insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.   The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. 

Pharmaceutical giants reported $33 Billion dollars in cholesterol lowering drugs last year. As a nation, we reduced the fat content in our diets faithfully and yet with 25% of the population taking statin medications, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before and at a younger age. 

Don’t you think something is terribly wrong?

Let me say those traditional recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible; in fact, the consequences dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.

Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger people in greater numbers every year.

Low-fat diet recommendations with elimination of saturated fat are responsible for epidemics in inflammation, heart disease, obesity and diabetes.  Let’s look at why:

Hidden Omega-6 Oils 

Processed foods are manufactured with Omega-6 oils for longer shelf life; chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil.  Omega-6’s are essential as they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell but without a correct balance to Omega-3’s, more harm sets in.

If the balance shifts to excessive Omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.  Today’s main stream diet has produced an imbalance from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of Omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation.  A ratio of 3:1 would be optimal and healthy.

Animal fats contain less than 20% Omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled polyunsaturated.  The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak.

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Add Harm From Sugars and Simple Carbohydrates

Simple carbohydrates and refined sugars cause the body to produce high levels of insulin from the pancreas.  Over time, cells will become sensitive and less resistant to excessive insulin creating Type 2 diabetes.  Then they become abnormally stiff from an overload of Omega-6 fatty acids.

When we consume more sugars than we use or need, a cycle of internal terror begins as our bodies are not designed to eliminate toxic substances.  Cells will become overloaded producing a substance called resistin that makes cells even less responsive to insulin. 

LDL is chemically changed from this cycle of internal terror becoming abnormal.  The LDL chemical changes are perceived by the body as an invader, an infection or foreign substance to be destroyed and the inflammatory process begins. 

The important point to remember is LDL would not become trapped in the artery wall and cause a plaque unless the LDL changed from oxidation or high blood sugar in the presence of inflammation.

Without inflammation being present, cholesterol would move freely throughout as nature intended.

What About Weight?

Excess weight creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. In time this vicious cycle creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated.

Arterial Inflammation 

Inflammation is simply your body’s 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 bacterial and viral invaders.  However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition results called chronic inflammation.

Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.

I have seen inside thousands upon thousands of arteries.  Arterial inflammation (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.

What’s the Answer to This Fire Raging in Our Bodies? 

It’s not as difficult as you might think.  Return to foods closer to their natural state.  If a food is packaged and processed or labeled “low-fat or no-fat diet” it is high in sugar or high in Omega-6 oil.  Check a few packages and you’ll see soybean oil as a major ingredient.

Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables.  Cut down on or eliminate inflammation-causing Omega-6 fats.  One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of Omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.

You can reverse inflammation in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet by following my recommendations in The Great Cholesterol Lie.  You’ll learn essential vitamins and minerals to add, inflammatory foods to eliminate, how to eat safely in fast food chains and a list of recommended tests to measure your risk factor for heart disease.

This is neither complicated nor mysterious yet conflicting information abounds making it appear so.  Death happens only once but good health is a continuum. 

Editor’s 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. Click here now to learn more.

 “This article appears courtesy of Early to Rise’s Total Health Breakthroughs which offers alternative health solutions for mind, body and soul”

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You may have heard some of the old myths about body builders, that it will all just turn to fat and that they have big muscles but the quality of the exercise is not good like aerobic exercise is.

The facts are that if you do it right you will use a blend of weight training exercises, aerobics, and possibly yoga or some other stretching and strength system.  Aerobics a couple of days a week interspersed with weight training.  This brings the body to it’s most efficient state with a strong cardiovascular system and muscles to support whatever it is that you want to do.

Let’s face it there is nothing sexier than a body toned and trained that way.

If you are overweight the chances are you may be avoiding weight training because you think it will cause you to gain even more weight.  The facts are that robust exercise as described in combination with a sensible diet is the best way to lose pounds.

Following such a system may mean that you would lose 5 pounds for a particular period whereas someone only dieting may have lost seven.  But that doesn’t tell the whole story.  The rest of the story is that you will also have gained three pounds of muscle.  Muscle is a fat burning engine and as you continue you will achieve your goals and succeded well beyond anything possible with diet alone.

People just dieting will revert after a time and the weight comes back.  Those in a lifestyle change involving exercise will continue to progress.

Such a combination of exercise involving weight training is a lifestyle that will serve you throughout your life.  It will give you the juice to excell in all areas because lets face it, if you are tired all the time you severely limit your chances of success.  Such a lifestyle also contributes to longevity and quality of life.

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By Renee Pullman

Hemorrhoids are a terrible thing to have and after you understand that they are a disease of civilization and that an effective hemorrhoid home treatment is readily available you will wonder why you hadn’t heard about all of this before.

Unfortunately money drives our health care system and these simple home treatments don’t produce income. The common treatments also don’t produce a permanent cure, the hemorrhoids keep coming back. No one has told you that the best treatment is prevention, and, they haven’t told you how to prevent hemorrhoids or that home treatment is simple and effective.

But now home treatments are gaining favor as people are hearing about them. Since there is no quick cure in most common treatments, people are willing to take a shot at it at home. Here are three treatments that you should try.

Simple Hemorrhoid Home Treatment

1. Sitz Bath, you sit in a tub of warm water with a cup or two of Epsom Salts mixed in (keep the water as shallow as you can so the salts are not diluted). Sit knees to chest to avoid pressure on the anal area and to allow your cheeks to open and allow the cleansing and treatment to reach the area. Stay for 15 to 20 minutes and repeat 2 to 3 times per day. Sitz Bath will relax your muscles and improve the cirulation around the anus. This increased circulation is key in healing and preventing future hemorrhoids.
2. Witch Hazel has been used through the past several centuries to heal various ailments including hemorrhoids. Witch Hazel is an astringent, meaning it will shrink the hemorrhoids. You can use it as often as you like. One way to apply it is to pour it on your toilet paper and help clean yourself with it. It should also be applied again after you are clean.
3. Chinese remedies, whereas Sitz Bath and Witch Hazel are easily available in any drug store, Chinese remedies are a little harder to find, you also need to find the recipes. If your hemorrhoids resist some of the easier remedies then Chinese remedies will probably hold your answer as they are some of the most potent of remedies.

A hemorrhoid home treatment is inexpensive and effective, you do it all at home. You also quickly come to a treatment that works best for you without spending hundreds or thousands of dollars at the drug store and perhaps on surgical procedures.

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If you are looking for panic attack help then the best thing I can tell you is you can cure this thing and make the attacks a thing of the past. Get excited as you read every word of this article because the ideas are simple but the effects really help.

Panic attacks of one form or another affect millions of people. Many try drugs and therapy and have found that more often than not that these are experimental. Yes there is help there but it is a long trial and error process where various drugs are tried and discarded hoping to find “the one” that will help.

Most of us don’t have time for that kind of approach and instead need to come to a quick understanding of the cause of the attacks and then on to how to overcome Them. This is not to say that the approach we are discussing is instant but it can quickly help you begin to control the attacks as you begin to bring the intensity down.

Panic attacks are caused by anxiety and a fear of something. This causes both emotional and physical symptoms. The symptoms of an attack can include shortness of breath, chest pain, nausea, restlessness, and sweating. You must understand and accept what is going on in order to beat panic attacks. Once you know that you are having an attack you will begin to gain control over yourself and make it go away faster.

Often you must take a counter-intuitive approach to things and panic attacks are no different. Learn that it is an attack and just accept it: OK, it’s an attack and then distract yourself a little. Reassure yourself that you are in control. Communicate with your body the things you are feeling and say, “OK this is only a panic attack and I feel” – then describe a feeling. Talk to yourself and tell yourself to “let go” and your body will begin to respond. You need to just do this and not be concerned with what actually happens with the feeling. It may take a couple of times to get things to kick in.

Sometimes preparing a list of things to think of and focus on while you are having attacks is helpful. After all when one of those things hits it is difficult to engage in creative thinking – but you can remember things. So a list of things to bring to mind can be a huge help. Make it detailed so you can just pull the items out when your mind is engaged in trying to fight off the panic. If you look to yourself for help and demand more of yourself than just being a victim of the attacks then you are on your way to the best panic attack help.

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The writer and social critic, H.L. Mencken once wrote, “For every complicated problem there is a solution that is simple, direct, understandable and wrong.” 

Our ancestors believed that the stars rotated around the Earth. From our perspective, it made perfect sense. Of course, the idea was completely wrong. In fact, throughout history, people have believed ridiculous things. And we believed them so strongly you would have been persecuted for suggesting otherwise. 

So little has changed… 

Today’s gospel truth is that excess saturated fat in the diet clogs the arteries and causes heart disease. The only problem with this medical “fact” is that it isn’t a fact at all. It is a fraudulent and faulty hypothesis from the 1950s that has never been proven. 

I didn’t plan to write about this topic today. But I had to speak up when I saw the same article in four major publications this week. The headline: “Leading Surgeon Wants to Ban Butter.” 

Dr. Shyam Kolvekar, a heart surgeon at University College London Hospital, says that by the time he sees many of his patients, it is too late. Their hearts and cardiovascular system are too damaged for repair. He wants to stop heart disease before it starts by getting people to limit saturated fat in the diet. And to get the ball rolling, he suggests “banning butter.” 

Kolvekar is particularly worried that heart disease is growing rapidly in the younger population. “It’s because most kids start the day with some toast and butter,” he says. “Porridge is a much better alternative.” 

Why the butter and not the toast? Two slices of bread contain the equivalent carbohydrates of five teaspoons of sugar. And elevated blood sugar has been directly associated with heart disease. But more on that later… 

Dr. Kolvekar also suggests replacing natural butter with the industrially-processed, chemically-modified yellow-colored substance known as margarine. Great idea, doc! In the interest of disclosure, the Daily Mail notes that, “Dr. Kolvekar’s comments were issued by KTB, a public relations company that works for Unilever, the maker of Flora margarine.” 

Well, that might explain his motivations. But what about the veracity of his argument? And what can explain the last fifty years of propaganda against saturated fat? Is it really the villain it has been made out to be? 

I asked our own heart-health expert, Dr. Dwight Lundell, for his thoughts. Dr. Lundell knows the heart and cardiovascular system as well as anyone on the planet. During his 25-year career in medicine, he performed more than 5,000 open heart surgeries. And for much of that time, he toed the party line on saturated fat and cholesterol. But his own experience – and a closer review of the literature – caused him to reject the premise. He later wrote a book on the REAL causes of heart disease, which you can learn more about here. 

Dr. Lundell writes, “One wants their heart surgeon to be exacting. But, in the case of Dr. Shyam Kolvekar, who called for the banning of butter to prevent the epidemic of heart disease, he is exactly wrong!” 

According to Dr. Lundell, “The theory that saturated fat causes heart disease fails on many accounts.”  First, it is said that saturated fats raise cholesterol levels in the blood, and elevated cholesterol levels cause heart disease. 

Lundell points out that an article published in the American Heart Journal last year, showed that in an examination of 137,000 people admitted to the hospital with heart attack, 70% of them had normal blood cholesterol levels! 

It should also be noted that the long-running Framingham Heart Study showed that after the age of 50 (when 90% of all heart attacks occur), lower cholesterol levels are clearly associated with a shorter life expectancy. 

But let’s put cholesterol aside for a moment and discuss the purported mass killer, saturated fat. Certainly there must have been conclusive studies and solid evidence that kicked off the campaign against animal fat. Not quite. 

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One of the first studies to implicate animal fat in heart disease came in the early 1900s. See if you can spot the flaws in this one. In 1908, Russian scientist, M.A. Ignatovsky fed protein-rich animal foods to a group of rabbits. He soon discovered that the rabbits developed arterial plaques and cardiovascular disease.  Researchers discovered that the same thing happens when chickens, guinea pigs and goats eat a high-fat diet. 

Later these studies were cited as evidence of a high-fat diet causing heart disease in humans. Hmm… let’s see. All of these animals are obligate herbivores. They evolved eating nothing but plants. They are clearly not designed to eat meat. When we feed them meat and fat it makes them sick. That makes perfect sense. What doesn’t make sense is why researchers extrapolated these results to omnivorous humans. 

The Fraud of Ancel Keys Kicks off the Lipid Hypothesis 

But the “lipid hypothesis” really gained traction in the 1950s, when physiologist Ancel Keys, Ph.D., published what became known as the Seven Countries Study. 

Keys presented a comparison of heart disease mortality and fat intake across seven different countries. His comparison showed a “remarkable relationship.” The countries with the highest fat intake had the highest levels of heart disease. The countries with the lowest fat intake had the lowest levels of heart disease. Those in the middle fell conveniently in between. 

At the time, Jacob Yerushalmy, a PhD statistician, at the University of California at Berkeley pointed out that we had data on the amount of fat consumed in 22 countries. So why wasn’t it called the 22 Country Study? 

It wasn’t called that, because Ancel Keys started with the conclusion. Then he cherry-picked the countries that matched his pre-conceived notion and threw out the ones that contradicted it. And most of them did! When all 22 countries were analyzed, the “remarkable relationship” remarkably disappeared. 

Furthermore, Keys established no causative basis. And he based his conclusions on only two phenomena – dietary fat and heart disease. This did not account for the possibility that something else could have caused the heart disease. 

It might seem hard to believe that this flawed and fraudulent study was the genesis of the entire animal-fat-causes-heart-disease movement. Certainly, in the last sixty years, there must be hundreds of controlled studies that prove the link, right? 

Not quite… there are NONE! 

What about the societies that consume a very high percentage of saturated fat in the diet – groups like the Maasai in Africa or the Inuits in the Arctic North? Do they show signs of heart disease? No, and in fact, quite the opposite is true. 

In the 1960s, Vanderbilt University scientist, George Mann, MD, studied the nomadic Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania. These populations consumed a very high saturated fat diet, including drinking the blood of their cattle. Yet they were not only lean and virtually free of heart disease, they also had some of the lowest cholesterol levels ever measured! 

Skeptical scientists argued that they must have some sort of hereditary protection. However, British researchers found that when Maasai men moved to the city and began to consume a modern diet, their cholesterol levels skyrocketed! 

In an editorial published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1977, Dr. Mann called the cholesterol theory of heart disease “the greatest scam in the history of medicine.” 

But let’s get back to those studies… or, more accurately, the lack of studies proving a link between saturated fat and heart disease. 

There have been about 30 long-term population studies that have attempted to link saturated fat to heart disease. Of those, only four have shown even the weakest association. And all four had major disqualifications: they were either too small to be significant, they did not isolate the variables properly, or they showed a slight decrease in heart deaths but an increase in death due to cancer. 

But population studies are notoriously unreliable anyway. The gold standard among health studies are controlled, randomized trials. And not a single study of this nature has ever shown definitive evidence that saturated-fat consumption leads to heart disease. In fact, many have shown the exact opposite! 

Authors of the MR-FIT trial were determined to prove the case. They enrolled 350,000 men, all of whom were considered at high risk of heart disease. In one set of participants, cholesterol consumption was reduced by 42%, saturated fat by 28%, and total calories by 21%. 

What happened? Nothing. The authors referred to the results as “disappointing,” stating that “The overall results do not show a beneficial effect on Coronary Heart Disease or total mortality from this multifactor intervention.” 

The Women’s Health Initiative was a huge government study, costing almost three quarters of a billion dollars. Among 20,000 women in the study who adhered to a diet low saturated fat diet for eight years, there was no reduction in the rates of heart-disease or stroke. 

Then there was the Cochrane Collaboration, in 2000. This group rigorously selected 27 low-fat and cholesterol-lowering trials to review (more than 200 trials were rejected). Their conclusion was that diets low in saturated fat have “no significant effect” on heart attack mortality. Lead researcher Lee Hooper, PhD, said “I was disappointed that we didn’t find something more definitive.” 

Or how about something more recent? 

This month, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a review of 21 studies. The studies ranged from 5 to 23 years in length and encompassed 347,747 subjects. In the authors’ own words: “Intake of saturated fat was not associated with an increased risk of CHD, stroke, or CVD.” 

I could go on… and on… and on… but I’ll conclude with this. 

In 1988, U.S. Surgeon General’s office decided to end the confusion. They set out to finally prove the causal link between saturated fat and heart disease. After 11 years, the project was abandoned. The Surgeon General’s office stated that they, “did not anticipate fully the magnitude of the additional external expertise and staff resources that would be needed.” Sure! After more than a decade of trying, the government just “just didn’t have the resources.” 

Scientists and researchers are supposed to have an open mind. They are not supposed to be dogmatic and swayed by politics and peer pressure. But that is exactly what the majority of scientists and doctors have proven of themselves. It is not terribly surprising. Massive industries and shining scientific careers have been built on this faulty theory. 

If it were not so tragic, it would be funny to listen to them explain away contradictory findings and make excuses for why their studies don’t match their hoped-for conclusions. The most common excuses are that the “trial didn’t last long enough” or they “didn’t lower the saturated-fat intake enough.” It seems that option number three never crosses their mind… perhaps the entire hypothesis is wrong! 

Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD has called the saturated fat theory of heart disease “one of the greatest and most harmful misconceptions in the history of medicine.” Dr. George Mann called it the “public health diversion of the century.” 

And the problem is not just the wasted time and billions of dollars dedicated to an unscientific myth. The bigger problem is that undue focus on the saturated fat bugaboo has stolen attention from the REAL causes of heart disease. And perhaps even worse, is that many of the dietary recommendations to reduce heart disease have actually been shown to CAUSE heart disease (not to mention cancer, diabetes and obesity). 

If you truly want to protect yourself from the nation’s number one killer, don’t smoke and reduce your stress levels. At least the medical authorities have gotten those two right. And when it comes to your diet, forget about saturated fat and cholesterol. Here is what you should do instead: 

• Consume more monounsaturated fats from sources like olive oil, nuts, avocados and avocado oil
• Cut out the sugar and refined carbohydrates
• Consume more omega-3 fatty acids, from wild game, grass-fed beef and bison, sardines and wild (not farm-raised) salmon. And take an omega-3 fish oil supplement.
• And reduce as much as possible omega-6 fatty acids in your diet. These come primarily from conventionally raised meats, processed foods, fried foods and vegetable and seed oils (corn, soybean, sunflower, cottonseed, etc.) 

To Your Health, 

Jon Herring
Editor
Total Health Breakthroughs 

This article appears courtesy of Early to Rise’s Total Health Breakthroughs which offers alternative health solutions for mind, body and soul.

BBC’s Horizon produced a TV show about the very topic of longevity. Here are the five parts that they presented and there is some amazing information inside. Each part is around 10 minutes and it is well worth watching.

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It’s not genetics when so many gain so much so quickly but our environment has changed.  Consumption of carbonated beverages sweetened with high fructose corn syrup has increased radically.  At 150 calories per 8oz serving and the average adult having more than 3 servings a day…  It adds up to a 20 pound gain in a year.

There is a system in the body that controls energy balance.  What has caused this system to get out of whack so that we continue to eat when our bodies  have enough to sustain us?  That’s what the body should do, stop us.

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The complete list of vitamin B12 deficiency symptoms is huge: for example there are many gastrointestinal effects but this article is mostly about vitamin B12 and energy.

Vitamin B12 Benefits

B12 is well known for boosting energy.  In fact, B12 works quickly and usually provides a rapid increase in energy.   Stories abound of the rich and famous getting injections from their favorite doctors.   These injections are expensive and unneeded for most people. Today there are excellent supplements available over the counter that can be dissolved under the tongue (sublingual) that can provide the supplementation and energy boost that you need.

Vitamin B12 has a solid reputation for boosting energy levels. It is responsible for building up red blood cells, it’s used in making DNA, and for releasing the energy contained in food.  Most people take in the B12 they need in animal protean, fish, eggs, and milk – the body also manufactures it.  But some have issues in achieving proper levels of B12 and a supplement can be a God-send.

Many give good reports to B12 including some chronic fatigue sufferers.   Teamed up with melatonin vitamin B12 may also benefit you If you have trouble sleeping – and B12 is a co-factor in melatonin production.

The Mayo Clinic says, “Inability to absorb vitamin B12 from the intestinal tract can be caused by a disease known as pernicious anemia.”  Pernicious anemia is most likely to develop over the age of 40. They go on to say that people on a vegetarian diet may also have B12 deficiency.

A B12 deficiency can affect both men and women and is more pronounced above the age of 40.  Deficiency can cause fatigue, apathy, weight loss, balance problems, bone loss, back pain, tingling extremities, tinnitus (ringing in the ears), eye problems, headaches, and general low energy.

So How Much B12 Should I Take?

The U.S RDA for B12 is 2.5mcg but many investigators say you must take at least 200 times that amount to gain the benefit, that’s 500mcg.  Happily that dosage and higher doses of vitamin B12 are available in the vitamin sections of most pharmacies.

No adverse effects from high doses of B12 have been seen and even doses of 2500mcg (as of this writing $5.00 for a bottle of 60 at Walmart) are apparently safe.  Check with your doctor and enjoy the many benefits of vitamin B12.

More Benefits Of Vitamin B12

• Health Tip: You Need Vitamin B-12 (nlm.nih.gov)
• 28 of the Most Nutritional Foods to Eat (thebestrawfooddiet.com)
• The A, B, C Of Vitamins (slideshare.net)
• I’m Not Lazy, I’m Not Fat – I’m ILL! (barbarany_9.blogspot.com)