2. Avoid unnecessary X-rays
One of the world’s
leading scientists, John Gofman, reports that medical X-rays
cause micro tumors on the inside of the arteries on which cholesterol plaques
form to heal the tumor. The plaques narrow the artery and this can then lead
to an infarction (blockage) or heart attack. In one of the largest and most
comprehensive medical studies ever done, Dr. Gofman estimates that medical
X-rays are a necessary co-actor causing 75-90% of breast cancer, 50% of
all other cancers, and 60% of all coronary artery disease. See: Cancer
and Heart Disease Alert (#12, 13, 14) at: http://www.healpain.net
(Our son had extensive
medical X-rays when he was young.)
3. Do not drink chlorinated water and avoid
showering in chlorinated water.
Chlorine is added
to our drinking water to eliminate water born diseases, but we don’t have
to drink chlorinated water. If you let the water sit for a minimum of two
hours all of the chlorine will evaporate. You can also eliminate the chlorine
in your drinking water or in your shower by running it through a carbon filter.
(The research and reasons why chlorine causes heart disease will be given
in my book.) Avoiding chlorine may be more important than avoiding saturated
fat. (Our son grew up drinking
and showering in chlorinated water. He also did a lot of swimming in chlorinated
pools.)
4. Unless you are anemic, do not take any vitamins
containing iron or eat any food fortified with iron .
A high level of iron
in the blood may be a better indicator of heart disease than high cholesterol.
This is the reason why women, because of the loss of blood and iron through
menses, have a lower incidence of heart disease than men.
Do not give your
babies or children formula with iron, vitamins containing iron, or food fortified
with iron, and do not consume them yourself. This is important also for
older women, because after menopause, their incidence of heart disease quickly
catches up with that of men. It is also a good reason for such women and
all men to donateblood regularly. (Our
son was given vitamins with iron and food fortified with iron from the time
he was born.)
5. Do not drink homogenized milk. Homogenization makes the butterfat molecules so
small that they can pass through intestinal walls. This I believe fills the
blood stream full of artery clogging fats. Dr. Kurt A. Oster's studies
from the 1960s to the 1980s suggest that homogenized milk is a major factor
in plaque formation, causing heart disease. His view of the mechanism of
how homogenized milk caused heart disease may not have been totally
correct, but the theory is still very credible. There are other good reasons
to avoid pasteurized homogenized milk A newborn calf separated from its mother and fed
a diet of only pasteurized milk will live only about six weeks. (Our
son grew up drinking only homogenized milk)
6. Do not use salt that “Pours when
it rains.”
Sixty years ago in
Utah, cows were given a new kind of salt with anti-caking agents in it.
(This salt would “pour when it rains.”) Their ankles swelled up and they died
with congestive heart failure. Switching back to natural rock salt stopped
the cow deaths.
More than 42,000
people in the U.S. die each year from congestive heart failure. Another 219,000
deaths are related to congestive heart failure. Many are on salt restrictive
diets and virtually all of them use the kind of salt that killed the cows.
If you are not on
a salt restrictive diet, changing to salt from the health food store that
absorbs moisture and does not pour when rains, could save your life.
We have personally seen it reduce edema and lower blood pressure; a major
risk factor for heart disease and stroke. (Mark
grew up eating the wrong kind of salt.)
7. Do not use margarine or shortening
or eat food containing hydrogenated or
partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.
This is the most
important thing you can
do to prevent heart disease. The latest research estimates that this could
prevent between 72,000 and 228,000 heart attacks each year.
The information is from the Harvard Medical School,
New England Journal of Medicine, and from four studies including
the Nurses’ Health Study of more than 120,000 nurses that began in
1976. It reveals a shocking 180 degree change in the position of modern
medicine regarding fats in the diet.
You can stake you life on this research because
of the large numbers involved and because it continued for 30 years. The
research was not done to sell a drug. There was no ulterior motive and no
vested interests.
What the research
revealed is: “Just 5 grams of trans
fatty acids (from margarine, vegetable shortening, hydrogenated or partially
hydrogenated vegetable oil) per day increases the risk of heart disease by
25%.” (Two servings of margarine weigh morethan 5 grams.)
A report from the
Institute of Medicine has concluded “there is no safe level
of trans fats in the diet.”
The Harvard School
of Public Health reports: “Trans fats are even worse for cholesterol levels
than saturated fats because they raise bad LDL and lower good HDL. While
you should limit your intake of saturated fats, it is important to completely
eliminate trans fats from partially hydrogenated oils from your diet….Ounce
for ounce, trans fats are far worse than saturated fats when it comes to
heart disease.”
So no one will misunderstand
the above statement, I will restate it: Margarine and
vegetable shortening are far worse than butter and lard when it comes to
heart disease.
The New England Journal of
Medicine reports: “On a per-calorie basis, trans fats appear to increase
coronary heart disease risk more than any other micro-nutrient, conferring
a substantially increased risk at levels as low as 1% to 3% of total energy
intake. In a meta-analysis of four prospective cohort studies of nearly
140,000 participants, a 2% increase in energy intake from trans fats was
linked to a 23% increase in the incidence of coronary heart disease.
“On the basis of
the reported relationship between trans fat intake and coronary heart disease
10% to 19% of coronary heart disease events in the U.S. could be averted
by reducing the intake of trans fats. Given the 1.2 million annual myocardial
infarctions and deaths from coronary heart disease in the U.S., near-elimination of
trans fats might avert between 72,000 (6%) and 228,000 (19%) of coronary
heart disease events each year.”
This makes stopping
the war in Iraq with 2,000 plus total deaths look like a blip on the radar
screen.
Even the current
legislation requiring the listing of trans fats on all products may not
help. It will deceive most people. According to the FDA, a product
claiming to have zero trans fat can actually contain up to a half gram. (Canada
set a different standard of zero as under 0.2 grams.) So you must read the
ingredient list for "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil" and look for another
product, if it's something you eat regularly.
Food and peanut butter companies
are using the above ruling to get away with the same thing that killed countless
thousands. They now advertise “O trans fats per serving, as always.”
Per serving allows up to a half gram of trans fats. Almost all food
made with hydrogenated vegetable oil has always had less than a half
gram per serving. Nothing has changed. The “as always” peanut butter,
plus eating margarine and foods made with hydrogenated oils, is what the
research tells us kills more than 72,000 people each year.
To
prevent heart disease, we must completely eliminate all trans fats from
the diet. (We raised our son
on 100% whole-wheat “health bread” made with “pure vegetable shortening.”
It said on the wrapper “The Whiter the Bread the Sooner Your Dead.”
Now we know the “health bread” made with vegetable shortening
is one of the reasons he died! What made matters worse; he put hydrogenated
peanut butter on nearly every piece of bread he ate.
Thinking it was healthier, we added
to the problem by using margarine and shortening. All of the prepared foods
we bought made matters still worse because they were made with hydrogenated
or partially hydrogenated vegetable oil - even ice cream.)
8. Eggs to prevent heart disease
One
more factor could have contributed to the death of our son: He did not like eggs. A report from the Harvard
School of public health states: “While it's true that egg yolks have a lot
of cholesterol--and, therefore may slightly affect blood cholesterol levels--eggs
also contain nutrients that may help lower the risk for heart disease, including
protein, vitamins B12 and D, riboflavin, and folate.”
Imagine
that, the prospect that eggs may lower the risk of heart disease instead
of avoiding eggs as recommended for so many years by the American Heart
Association (another 180 degree change).
When you
put together all of the pieces, the shocking possibility logically follows: Butter, eggs,
and cheese might have saved Mark’s life.
I look forward to the day when I can find a restaurant
or a bakery that advertises, “This establishment uses zero trans fat.
We cook with saturated fat and recommend butter instead
of margarine for your heart health.”
Just one dietary
change, totally avoiding trans fatty acids, could prevent from 72,000
to 228,000 heart attacks each year. If you add to that the number of deaths
from pain medications, 26,000 to 55,000 from Vioxx, plus what could be an
equal number of deaths from other pain meds, then you know why I feel deeply
about preventing heart attacks and pain without drugs.
Your Servant,
Darrell Stoddard, Founder - Pain Research Institute http://www.healpain.net
E-mail: stoddard@healpain.net
Mark was a good man, and a
wonderful son, husband, and father. If his
shortened life and this information help prevent even one fatal heart
attack, then his death will not have been in vain.
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Addendum:
Does cholesterol that collects as “plaques”
on the inside of arteries lead to heart attacks? The answer is an unqualified
YES. Because everyone has cholesterol in their blood, no matter how much
or how little cholesterol they consume, this can happen to anyone. The liver
will produce cholesterol, no matter how little we eat, just to sustain
life. You are dead without it.
The question is, “Why do cholesterol plaques form on the inside of
arteries?” They do so to heal injuries from medical X-rays, injury from
chronic inflammation, and injury from too much homocysteine. The answer is
to prevent the injury or inflammation, not reduce the cholesterol the liver
produces to heal the injury or inflammation.
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