How You Can Reverse Heart Disease
It's no mystery that the western diet leads to heart disease.
People guzzle soda, eat processed food and excessive amounts of low grade meat.
They consume enormous amounts of synthetic products, and when coupled with the lack of physical exercise this often leads to heart disease and worse.
The treatment commonly prescribed for those so diagnosed is invasive heart surgery, high tech medical procedures and lots of drugs.
Yet these procedures often fail to address the fundamental cause of heart disease, leading to continued degeneration and often premature death even after everything has been done.
So how can one best reverse heart disease, if expensive medical treatments aren't the answer? Clearly if you are in danger of heart disease than mild changes to your diet are not sufficient.
Many people believe that if they follow the advice of government agencies such as only avoiding red meat and cutting back on processed foods that they will be fine, but that does not seem to be the case.
Bill Clinton was recently on CNN and was asked about his heart condition; when he explained that his heart had continued to degenerate after his surgeries, he turned to a more radical diet solution, and has thus far been met with success.
But what was his diet plan? Quite simply, it was a low-fat vegetarian diet.
I can almost hear you groaning already.
Why would a low-fat vegetarian diet be a good idea? Recent studies by Dean Ornish, M.
D.
and Caldwell Esselstyn, M.
D.
both revealed that lifestyle changes including nutritional ones could be instrumental in improving the reversal of heart disease by demonstrating the regression of atherosclerotic plaques.
However, you can go one step further.
While fat has often been demonized by the American health institutes, there is a world of difference between unhealthy fats and healthy fats.
For example, omega-3's are a healthy fat found in fatty fish, and taking omega-3 supplements can do wonders for reducing inflammation levels and easing cardiovascular disease.
Therefore one can supplement the low-fat vegetarian diet with healthy fats such as those found in nuts and seeds and avocados.
According to a study published in The Journal of Nutrition, a nut-eating group of people confirmed the LDL-reducing effects of nut eating when compared to a non-nut-eating group.
So can you reverse heart disease without expensive drugs and invasive surgery? Yes.
But sacrifices will have to be made, including the adoption of a healthy diet that will do wonders that even modern medicine can't duplicate.
People guzzle soda, eat processed food and excessive amounts of low grade meat.
They consume enormous amounts of synthetic products, and when coupled with the lack of physical exercise this often leads to heart disease and worse.
The treatment commonly prescribed for those so diagnosed is invasive heart surgery, high tech medical procedures and lots of drugs.
Yet these procedures often fail to address the fundamental cause of heart disease, leading to continued degeneration and often premature death even after everything has been done.
So how can one best reverse heart disease, if expensive medical treatments aren't the answer? Clearly if you are in danger of heart disease than mild changes to your diet are not sufficient.
Many people believe that if they follow the advice of government agencies such as only avoiding red meat and cutting back on processed foods that they will be fine, but that does not seem to be the case.
Bill Clinton was recently on CNN and was asked about his heart condition; when he explained that his heart had continued to degenerate after his surgeries, he turned to a more radical diet solution, and has thus far been met with success.
But what was his diet plan? Quite simply, it was a low-fat vegetarian diet.
I can almost hear you groaning already.
Why would a low-fat vegetarian diet be a good idea? Recent studies by Dean Ornish, M.
D.
and Caldwell Esselstyn, M.
D.
both revealed that lifestyle changes including nutritional ones could be instrumental in improving the reversal of heart disease by demonstrating the regression of atherosclerotic plaques.
However, you can go one step further.
While fat has often been demonized by the American health institutes, there is a world of difference between unhealthy fats and healthy fats.
For example, omega-3's are a healthy fat found in fatty fish, and taking omega-3 supplements can do wonders for reducing inflammation levels and easing cardiovascular disease.
Therefore one can supplement the low-fat vegetarian diet with healthy fats such as those found in nuts and seeds and avocados.
According to a study published in The Journal of Nutrition, a nut-eating group of people confirmed the LDL-reducing effects of nut eating when compared to a non-nut-eating group.
So can you reverse heart disease without expensive drugs and invasive surgery? Yes.
But sacrifices will have to be made, including the adoption of a healthy diet that will do wonders that even modern medicine can't duplicate.