I heard that speaking English is the real cause: 1. The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. 2. The Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. 3. The Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. 4. The Italians drink a lot of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. 5. The Germans drink a lot of beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. Conclusion: Eat and drink what you like, speaking English is apparently what kills you
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of > Peter Frederick via Mercedes > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2019 10:54 AM > To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net> > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Well ain't that a thing > > Turns out that heart disease and cholesterol are "associated", but the > linkage is > quite weak, and people with genetically very low serum cholesterol are as > likely to have heart disease as the rest of us. > > Coronary artery disease is appearently an inflammetory disease, totally > unrelated to serum lipid levels. It is not caused by cholesterol, and the > mechanism by which plaque forms on the artery walls isn't well understood, > partially because the medical community is driven by fads and pharmacuetical > companies as much as science and the "cholesterol causes heart disease" > school resulted in the sale of huge amounts of statins and no research on > actual mechanism. There has always been quite a bit of resistance to that > theory anyway, as the "do dairy fat" crowd deliberately left Scandanavia and > Germany out of their research data -- high dairy fat intake, low heart disease > rates that didn't fit the "theory" that saturated fats cause heart attacks. > > I've had high cholesterol since I was in my 20s and have zero heart disease. > Nada. I had a bout of viral congestive heart failure the other year when my > left > ventricle was very weak for most of a year, but it's returned to normal. Not > a > trace of clogged arteries. > > I suspect trans fats are much more of a problem as they poison lipid > metabolism. and removing them from the food supply tracks very closely with > the great reduction in coronary artery and heart disease. I have avoided trans > fats since the early 70's on the advice of the PhD student in my research lab, > who was a membrane lipid specialist. > > > > At any rate, be aware of the symptoms of coronary artery disease and don't > hesitate to head for the ER if they become noticable! A day or two in the > hospital and some stents if necessary are vastly preferable to a myocardial > infarct, whatever the source (and they can happen from artery wall collapse > rather than plaque, too). > > Peter > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
