Times Are Changing

Dwight Lundell MD of Mesa AZ, in his expose´ entitled "World Renown Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease," provides a lucid explanation of the widespread poor health in our culture, and a remarkably simple and accessible set of solutions.

A former hospital Chief of Staff with over 2500 heart surgeries to his credit, Dr. Lundell said, "We opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from... elevated blood cholesterol. The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake... Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could... result in malpractice. These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences... 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.

The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine... The biggest culprits of chronic inflammation... 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... in... processed foods.

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes... red and nearly bleeding. If you kept this up several times a day... you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process... foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.

There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation-causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them."

The time is coming when physicians of all kinds will awaken to things natural, as we have professed for over a century. Have faith, and keep telling people the truth -- it's working.

This is a post from Dennis Perman's weekly newsletter.