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Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake!
By Dwight Lundell, MD

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority
often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult
to admit we are wrong. So, here it is.. I freely admit to being
wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having
performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to
right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.

I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled
âopinion makers.â Bombarded with scientific literature,
continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers
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. The
latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart
disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered
heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.

It Is Not Working!

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.

Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive
statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat
content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart
disease than ever before.

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 and younger people in greater
numbers every year.

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.

Inflammation is not complicated - it is quite 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 these 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 occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic
inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is
beneficial.

What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly
to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to
the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that
choice willfully.

The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream
diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and
carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to
our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic
inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and
obesity. Let me repeat that. The injury and inflammation in our
blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet that has been
recommended for years by mainstream medicine.

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.

In Part 2 of this two-part article, I'll discuss which foods
cause inflammation, how those foods trigger the inflammatory
process, and the foods to eat that will cure inflammation.

Part 2
by Dwight Lundell MD 02/06/2009

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over
soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. Letâs
say 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.

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.

While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies
respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring
war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or
processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the
mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have
been slowly poisoning everyone.

How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of
inflammation to make you sick?

Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of
what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple
carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In
response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose
is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy.
If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to
avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.

When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises
producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.

What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is
controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach
to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel
wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off
inflammation. When you spike your blood sugar level several
times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to
the inside of your delicate blood vessels.

While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I
saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all
shared one common denominator â inflammation in their arteries.

Letâs get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody
not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6
oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil;
processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer
shelf life. While omega-6âs are essential âthey are part of
every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell
â they must be in the correct balance with omega-3âs.

If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell
membrane produces chemicals called cytokines thar directly
cause inflammation. Todayâs mainstream American diet has
produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of
imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of
omega-6. Thatâs a tremendous amount of cytokines causing
inflammation. In todayâs food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be
optimal and healthy.

To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from
eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out
large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the
injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began
with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that
creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and
finally, Alzheimerâs disease, as the inflammatory process
continues unabated.

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, nor
was it designed to consume, 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. 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.

Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less
likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils
labeled polyunsaturated. Forget the âscienceâ that has been
drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated
fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that
saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since
we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease,
the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.

The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat
recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing
an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible
mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor
of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of
arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent
killers.

What you can do is choose whole foods your 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 fresh unprocessed food, you will
reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your
body from consuming the typical American diet.

[Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and
Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital, Mesa, AZ. His private
practice, Cardiac Care Center was in Mesa, AZ. Recently Dr.
Lundell left surgery to focus on the nutritional treatment of
heart disease. He is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation
that promotes human health with a focus on helping large
corporations promote wellness. He is the author of The Cure for
Heart Disease and The Great Cholesterol Lie

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