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!

commonheartproblems.com

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.

25 Years Pioneer –
“Off  Pump” Heart Surgery
Beating Heart Hall of Fame
Phoenix List Top 10 Doctors – Ten Years
Performed Over  5,000 Heart Surgeries

In 2003, Dr. Lundell left his successful thoracic and cardiovascular surgical practice after 25 years to open a clinic to test his theory that inflammation in the arteries was the cause of heart disease, a theory traditional medicine saw as heresy disputing the cholesterol theory.

Leaving surgery brought a freedom to refocus his career writing books and articles, presentations, interviews and speeches to educate on inflammation and how to prevent and reverse heart disease through nutrition and lifestyle changes.

Dr. Lundell’s clinical testing led to the development of a unique supplement designed to reduce inflammation, HeartShot ™ developed by Asantae.

His position as Chief Medical Officer of Asantae allows him to travel the country speaking, educating and presenting information about inflammation and heart disease changing the health of America.

• Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery.  Certification by the American Board of Surgery, the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons.

• Pioneer in “Off-Pump” heart surgery reducing surgical complications and recovery times.
• Beating Heart Hall of Fame.
• Phoenix Magazine’s Top Doctors for 10 years and recognized by his peers as a leader.
• Past Chief Resident, University of Arizona and Yale University Hospitals and later served as Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery.
• A founding partner of Lutheran Heart Hospital which became the second largest heart hospital in the US now owned by Banner Health

Dr. Lundell has consulted and advised for a variety of leading medical device manufacturers such as Cardio Thoracic Systems, Inc. before and after its acquisition by Guidant Corporation.  He advised St. Jude Medical on tissue valve implantation and marketing. For A-Med, Inc., He consulted on and published the first clinical study on miniature pumps for heart support. He co-authored a clinical study validating key technology for Coalescent Surgical, which was subsequently acquired by Medtronic, Inc

Publications & Presentations

The Great Cholesterol Lie, March 2009

The Cure for Heart Disease: July 2007

A Miniature Right Heart Support System Improves Cardiac Output and Stroke Volume During Beating Heart Posterior/Lateral Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, Heart Surgery Forum, 2003;6(5):302-6.

Clinical and Six-Month Angiographic Evaluation of Coronary Arterial Graft Interrupted Anastomoses by Use of a Self-Closing Clip Device: a Multi-center Prospective Clinical Trial, J. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 2003 Jul; 126(a):168-77, discussion 177-8.

The Interrelationship of Factors Controlling Cardiac Output, Med Hypothesis, 1983 Jan; 10(1):77-95.

Clinical Applications of the Intra-aortic Balloon Pump, Ariz Med, 1981 Jan;38(1):19-21.

Randomized Comparisons of the Modified Wire-Guided and Standard Intra-aortic Balloon Catheters, J. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 1981 Feb;81(2):297-301.

Combined Aortic Valve Replacement and Myocardial Revascularization, Connecticut Medicine, 1980 Jun;44(6):363-6.

The Importance of Myocardial Protection in Combined Aortic Valve Replacement and Myocardial Revascularization, Annual. Thorac Surg, 1979 Dec;28(6):501-8.

Leiomyoma of the Esophagus, Conn Med, 1979 Aug;43(8):483-5

Cold Chemical Cardioplegia, Presentation at the New England Surgical Society, May, 1979.

Doppler Ultrasound Diagnosis of Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Presented at Connecticut Society of Board Surgeons, December 1978.

Hypoliquorreic Headache and Pneumoncephalus Caused by Thoracosub Arachnoid Fistula, Neurology 1977 Oct;27(10):993-995.

Guidelines for the Management of Lung Cancer, Ariz Med, 1977 Mar;34(3):176-82.

Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident, 1977-1978
University of Arizona, Arizona Health Sciences Center
Chief Resident, General Surgery, 1976-1977
University of Arizona, Arizona Health Sciences Center
Surgery Resident, 1971-1973, 1975-1977
University of Arizona, Arizona Health Sciences Center
General Surgery Intern, 1971-1972
University of Arizona
Doctor of Medicine, Charter Class of 1971

The book is 118 pages, plus 33 pages of medical and science indexes.  The book covers the following in great detail:

• Cholesterol
• Inflammation
• Heart Disease
• Chapter 6, Dr. Lundell’s clinically proven recommendations
• Chapter 7, How to eat out safely in restaurants and fast food chains
• Chapter 8, Stents, Statins and Bandages (not covered in this review.)

More information about the book can be found here The Great Cholesterol Lie.   Read more about Dr. Dwight Lundell.