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Friday 5 August 2011

Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake !

By Dwight Lundell, MD

Part 1 of a 2-part article (see part 2 in link below)

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 "opinion makers."  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.

See part 2 in link below !

http://members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/new_page_1.htm

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is what successful, educated low carbers have been saying all along.
Its so good to see that the medical profession is beginning to see the truth and are big enough to admit their previous mistakes.
Thanks.

Ksren chocfish (the ever faithful one, hahaha)

Anonymous said...

Will someone tie Knobhead and his mates up and read this to them?

Ray

Anonymous said...

On this subject, I see Albert, another knobhead has arisen from slumber since joining the forum of shame in Jan 2010.

Does the writing style seem familiar? He seems to have picked up the mantle of one of the fallen.

Or perhaps I'm too suspicious.

Ray

Lowcarb team member said...

Hi Ray

I see the low fat mob have a new champion ! Why am I smelling the shit of the bull ?

Eddie

Lowcarb team member said...

Agree 100%

Anonymous said...

The super troll is back.

Nick

Anonymous said...

YUCK, Ken, without a single doubt one of the most obnoxious, disgusting sorry excuse of a human being. Waste of space and oxygen.

Lowcarb team member said...

From Albert

"Ray. If I was Ken you would have been blown out of the water by now! Ill take it as a compliment. Thank you. Strange how some people can't seem to forget Ken. Better the devil you know eh!"

Who but er.....Ken would take being called er.... Ken a compliment other than..................er Ken

Eddie

Anonymous said...

gotta feel sorry for him, wherever he goes, nobody likes him. former work colleages glad to get rid of this self-important goon and thats a fact.

Low carbing cop
West Midlands