In The Year 2,000…Scientists Will Conquer Heart Disease
August 13th, 2009
I don’t know much about Connie Howard, but she apparently knows a lot more about nutrition than most doctors in the world. I absolutely love this article posted today in the Vue Weekly challenging the “conventional wisdom” about heart disease. She had me at the introduction when she described a group of kids she saw at a convenience store who were clearly feeding a nasty sugar addiction.
She goes on to say, ”The president of the American Heart Association in 1984, Anthony Gotto, predicted that we’d conquer heart disease by the year 2000 by going low fat. But we’ve been low-fat crazy for decades and haven’t even remotely conquered heart disease. Too many of us can identify with president Dwight D. Eisenhower as described by Gary Taubes in Good Calories, Bad Calories, and know well the frustration of shunning eggs and butter and cheese and all things cholesterol and fat in exchange for all things fat-free while watching our weight and cholesterol climb.”
It’s difficult not to quote the entire article here because she does such a fantastic job in demonstrating that the path we’ve been on since the early 80’s just isn’t working.
“But though we know that our bodies store excess carbs as saturated fat, and that they are inextricably tied to excess weight, fluid retention, elevated triglycerides, arterial plaque and high blood pressure, high-carb low-fat diets likely to over-stimulate insulin production are still the recommended ones. Go figure.”
On top of that, we’re all told we have to do everything we can to lower our cholesterol, yet, “that the majority of heart attacks happen in those with normal cholesterol.”
Check out the article, you’ll save yourself from wasting time listening to the “conventional wisdom.”
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