By: Katelyn Nicholson, RDN, LD
Our lifestyle and the foods we eat can have a significant impact on our health. Today, one in three adults has some form of cardiovascular disease. Heart Health Month is a great time to start making healthier choices that will help protect your heart and keep it beating strong!
The INTERHEART study, published in the Lancet in 2004, followed 30,000 people and found that changing lifestyle could prevent at least 90% of all heart disease. Our lifestyle and environment can either encourage or discourage underlying inflammation and metabolic imbalances. Those are the real reasons we are sick. The good news is that fixing the problem at its root creates positive change for most chronic diseases. It also makes you feel more alive, healthy, and has no side effects.
Most of us grew up being told that foods like red meat, eggs and bacon raise our cholesterol levels. This idea is so deeply ingrained in our cultural psyche that few people even question it. But is it really true?
The diet-heart hypothesis—which holds that eating cholesterol and saturated fat raises cholesterol in our blood—originated with studies in both animals and humans more than half a century ago. However, more recent (and higher quality) evidence doesn’t support it.
On any given day, we have between 1,100 and 1,700 milligrams of cholesterol in our body. 25% of that comes from our diet, and 75% is produced inside of our bodies by the liver. Much of the cholesterol that’s found in food cannot be absorbed by our bodies, and most of the cholesterol in our gut was first synthesized in body cells and ended up in the gut via the liver and gallbladder. The body tightly regulates the amount of cholesterol in the blood by controlling internal production; when cholesterol intake in the diet goes down, the body makes more. When cholesterol intake in the diet goes up, the body makes less.
In other words, eating cholesterol isn’t going to give you a heart attack. You can ditch the egg-white omelets and start eating yolks again. That’s a good thing, since all of the 13 essential nutrients eggs contain are found in the yolk. Egg yolks are an especially good source of choline, a B-vitamin that plays important roles in everything from neurotransmitter production to detoxification to maintenance of healthy cells. Studies show that up to 90% of Americans don’t get enough choline, which can lead to fatigue, insomnia, poor kidney function, memory problems and nerve-muscle imbalances.
Heart Disease is a battle you can win! You simply need to make behavior and lifestyle changes. Visit www.cghealth.com for more nutrition resources and information.
The medical industry is a massive octopus it needs sick people to survive, Jesus Christ told us to not be involved in witchcraft the Greek meaning of pharmaceuticals means witchcraft, please read this http://www.theopenscroll.com/pharmakeia.htm.
Jesus called and he wants u back on your anti psychotic prescription. Are you serious? Medical science is witchcraft….. If that wasn’t a joke you’re special. How can anyone be a religious fanatic in the year 2019? Are you totally ignorant of science and fact? Your God doesn’t exist. Give up the crutch! It makes you sound like an insane and unstable human being. How can you be an adult and still believe in God lol. Grow up and stop throwing terms like witchcraft around. Idiot. We should all just drop dead at 42 cuz that’s how they did it back in the good old Jesus days before we had DOCTORS. You’re so imbecilic it’s amazing.
Plenty of lunies in all camps, but you don’t know that God doesn’t exist any more than believers know he does. I OTOH do know that people like them fare a lot better than people like you in just about all aspects of life – that is a well documented statistical fact.
As a side note the 42 yr life expectancy was mainly driven by infant mortality and it was perfectly normal for anyone surviving past 5 to life for another 70 year or more.
Your referencing “Allopathic” medicine, my reference is about “Naturopathic” it’s focus is on “prevention, also the word “pharmaceutical’s/pharmacy” root word is “pharmakeia” and that is the definition of “witchcraft”,http://www.godisthecreator.com/pharma2.php.
The author Professor Walter Veith, proves what she is stating is wrong, (Diet and Health Scientific Perspectives), https://www.amazon.com/Diet-Health-Perspectives-Walter-Veith/dp/3887630688/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1550457070&sr=8-2&keywords=walter+veith+book, the author was commissioned to write this for all of the medical university’s in the U.S. you used hard copy for just short of $600.00
Also for a good measure go to a “Whole Foods” grocery store and then go to a “Hy Vee” grocery store and take a look at the customers, enough said
sounds like you’re confusing cause and effect. people don’t stay healthy from shopping at whole foods. they shop at whole foods because they care about staying healthy, and they incorrectly assume that whole foods products are better than the healthy selection that do exist at just about any other grocery store.
Whole Foods grocery stores do not carry GMO or non organic fruits and vegetables
number one thing found in arteries when opened up for heart surgery is “calcium” build up.
This is all good stuff. Sadly, the minority who pay attention to what they eat are already up to date on cholesterol research, and the majority of adult iowans who are obese, diabetic, clueless, and en route to a premature death caused by lack of excercise and a junk food diet, well, cholesterol is their smallest problem.
Are you suggesting meat and potatoes aren’t smart choices for every dinner, or that McDonald’s fish sandwiches aren’t somehow inherently health food? Or that ranch not be a dipping sauce/ingredient in half our sides? You might be right but iowans are the kind of people who will deep get candy bars.
Cute dr.