By Christy Golfeder, liveadeliciouslife.com

Is your doctor constantly harping on your cholesterol levels? Does he want to put you on statin drugs to control it or are you already on one? Do you eat low-fat foods, eschew animal products, and pray that you won’t die of a heart attack?

You’ve been duped.

The Great Cholesterol Lie is an in-depth account of the heart disease epidemic. It begins with the studies that proposed the cholesterol hypothesis, which led to another study that made fat the enemy. Ultimately, it shows how this misinformation changed the way the U.S. government, medical community and pharmaceutical industry propagated the so-called “heart-healthy” low-fat diet.

The scary thing is that they were all wrong. More Americans are dying from heart disease than ever before.

But it has nothing to do with cholesterol. Inflammation is the culprit for heart disease – as well as many other serious diseases.

If you eat SAD (standard American diet) foods, you’re likely to have inflammation. Fortunately, it is easy to reverse – all you need to do is take a simple test to find out if you have inflammation and change your diet. The Great Cholesterol Lie gives you a comprehensive explanation of which nutrients you need to get into your diet now, and how they will help you douse the flames burning in your body.

“The Great Cholesterol Lie”

If you’re looking to prevent heart disease, whether there’s a history in your family, or if you’ve been diagnosed and warned of the imminent dangers you face – heart disease has a cure. Heart disease does not have to be a death sentence. You can beat it without harmful medications and painful, risky surgery.

+ How 41% of ALL deaths in America could be prevented easily, simply, and virtually cost-free!

+ Why lowering your cholesterol intake is not helping lower your risk of heart attack… and may actually be doing you more harm!

+ How to recognize the signs of a heart attack… and the best course of action to ensure you survive!

+ The devastation being wreaked upon our nation’s health – and healthcare system – by the USDA’s “Food Pyramid”!

+ The fallacy of a low-fat diet – where the idea came from, the results of the experiment, and what needs to be done to overcome it!

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Are You Scrubbing Your Arteries Until They Are Raw And Inflamed?

I’ve read a few descriptions about the ultimate chaos that high blood sugar levels can cause.  But none have really said it as well as the following articles

The message is so important for everyone to know – us athletes and our families as well.

What does it mean specifically for us? Certainly you can be liberal with the carbs immediately before and during your workouts. Just as important, take full advantage of your “glycogen window” immediately after a workout. The first 30 minutes are key. That’s the time when your muscles are primed for glycogen repletion. A 3g to 4g carb to 1g protein ratio has been shown to maximally replenish your glycogen stores inside the glycogen window.

Beyond this time frame encompassing your workouts, I think it is extremely important you heed the following message. Do not live your entire day in a carbo-loading state.

Take it to heart and pass the message on…
bicyclingblogger.com/2009/02/are-you-scrubbing-your-arteries-until.html

The Great Cholesterol Lie

The Great Cholesterol Lieby Dr. Dwight Lundell
Health/Body

Review by Tally Green
thenewbookreview.blogspot.com/2009/04/great-cholesterol-lie.html

That’s the question -Why are we still faced with an epidemic of heart disease that will kill more than half of our population? Dr. Lundell witnessed heart disease; he held it in his hands a quarter century after performing over 5,000 open heart surgeries.

While he was saving lives for many years he also wrestled with what he saw in the arteries of every patient-inflammation. The question he asked himself was why was inflammation present?

This book is about a dedicated heart surgeon, Dr. Dwight Lundell. He wrote this book for the people, our hearts, our life’s for us to act on the knowledge and share this information with our loved ones, friends, etc. We need to tell as many about the truth so we can save as many life’s as possible. The book helped me to understand the reason people develop and die from heart disease. If only I knew what I just found out I would have been able to help some of my family and friends that have passed away as a result of heart disease. I thought high cholesterol was the cause of heart related diseases.

Now I see the real cause is inflammation-not cholesterol. This is inflammation you have swelling, redness, heat and pain around the area of the reaction to the injury or infection. The combination of the low fat and low cholesterol diet with other life style choices has created a firestorm. The most important thing to understand is with the long lists of aliments-inflammation is the common factor in almost all cases. The awesome news is that we can reduce inflammation. Dr. Lundell’s book explains in very simple terms how to take a stand and fight inflammation. We just need to read this book and follow his recommendations, watch our health change, get that glow back in our face.

This book is a must have in your library of books. Dr. Lundell says we need to make simple changes that will treat the inflammation instead of believing that cholesterol causes heart disease. If we give our bodies what it needs to operate properly our health will make remarkable strides and respond.