Category Archives: Heart Disease
The Fiber Fallacy
The world was first instructed to “Eat More Fiber“ because of research from Dr.’s Denis Burkitt and Hugh Trowell. They were studying the associations between diet and health status and wanted to determine why the diseases plaguing individuals in the Western World were not affecting secluded tribes in Africa. According to their observations, the lower…
How Excess Carbs = Degenerative Disease
In 2025, 33% of the U.S. population born after the year 2000 will be diabetic! As we discussed in a previous post, the development of diabetes starts with insulin resistance, which is driven by chronically elevated blood sugar from a frequent and excessive intake of dietary carbohydrates. When insulin is continuously secreted to remove sugar…
Why You Should Avoid Vegetable & Seed Oils (PUFAs)
Canola oil, soybean oil, cottonseed oil, sunflower oil, safflower oil, peanut oil, and corn oil, are all polyunsaturated fatty acids (or PUFA’s). Their use has skyrocketed in the last 50 years as an alternative to saturated fat; with soybean and canola oil increasing the most: The problem with PUFAs is that they’re highly susceptible to…
How Big’s Your LDL?
Conventional wisdom tells us LDL cholesterol is bad, and HDL cholesterol is good. Which is a huge improvement from the days of “All Cholesterol is Bad,” but still far from adequate. Chances are, your doctor has failed to mention that there are 2 types of LDL cholesterol particles, and only 1 is detrimental to our…
Dietary Cholesterol Does NOT Raise Blood Cholesterol
At some point in time, the incorrect assumption was made that the cholesterol you eat raises the cholesterol in your blood. Maybe it’s because the foods that are highest in cholesterol are also high in saturated fat, and since the early 70’s saturated fat has been (incorrectly) blamed for causing heart disease? Either way, it…
What is Family History?
When it comes to heart disease, we’ve been told that we’re at an increased risk if our mother or father (or both) has or had a heart problem. A valid consideration…I guess. But what caused the mother or fathers heart problem in the first place? If they smoked and you don’t smoke, or if they…
Heart Disease: Get Your Fats Straight
Clearly we haven’t benefited from the advice to eat less saturated fat. As obesity rates have more than doubled since the ‘Low-Fat’ recommendations were introduced, and recent evidence suggests that nearly 70% of baby-boomers are overweight. So, why is the majority of the population still trying to eat less fat? Because it’s been hammered into…
Born to Eat SATURATED Fat
Our hunter-gatherer ancestors thrived averaging 50% of their total calories from fat. And despite the so-called ‘healthy advice’ of the last 50 years most of it was from animals, that were high in the saturated and monounsaturated fats, and low in the polyunsaturated stuff. “The preshistoric humans of North America frequented animals such as camel,…
