LIFESTYLE

Atherosclerosis Basics – Part 2 – Preventing and Reversing

Atherosclerosis Is a Preventable Disease – Preventable Without Drugs

Atherosclerosis is the buildup of rancid (glycated and lipoxidated) material behind the wall of the artery. It is a natural process, but the body has another natural process to undo this and keep the arteries clean. The buildup is primarily due to diet, but the prevention is primarily due to exercise. Both need attention to be optimized.atherosclerosis-cause-plaque

If you have high blood pressure, it probably means atherosclerosis, though there can be other causes. If you do not have high blood pressure, you are not home free. There can often still be a significant atherosclerotic load present even in people with a normal blood pressure.

Exercising for Health Part I – The Best Exercises – Benefits

Correct exercise will maintain heart health, maintain joint function, improve mitochondrial health, retard aging, prevent osteoporosis, and reduce risk of degenerative disease.

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What is the best form of exercise? The type of exercise is very important. Two 45 minute very intense sessions per week will accomplish all these health goals.  Primary heart rate variability, joint health, and mitochondrial health are improved.

Sugar, Starch, Glucose, and Insulin

Starch and Sugar cause High Levels of Glucose and Insulinsugar-starch-glucose-insulin-spoonfu-of-sugar

Sugar and starch are eaten in abundance in the Western diet. The body is not equipped to deal with this, and cannot thrive with this excess present. Here we explain how they interact, and how they can be measured and controlled. Sugar and Starches are directly converted to glucose by the digestive process. Glucose is a simple form of sugar. High blood glucose levels, and the high insulin levels associated with them are a major causative factor in most degenerative disease. So why is a high level of glucose bad?

Cholesterol Officially Declared Harmless

U. S. Government Removes Limits on Cholesterol Consumption. Cholesterol is now Officially Harmlessfdsfsd

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, are recommending that limitations on dietary cholesterol be removed from the upcoming 2015 edition of Dietary Guidelines for Americans.  Apparently, cholesterol is now harmless. This is a huge turnabout, as a low cholesterol diet has been the lynchpin of government nutritional recommendations, and the American Heart Association, for the past 50 years.

FAT: Burn It or Store It. What Determines This?

The Grand Unified Theory Of Fat

You have heard by now that fat doesn’t make you fat, carbs make you fat. This seems confusing. Why wouldn’t fat also make you fat? Rarely is a cogent answer supplied for that one. Here’s the answer.Fat

The amount of fat you have is regulated to an ideal homeostatic set-point by the hypothalamus, a tiny but crucial brain that manages metabolism and energy expenditure.  If you have more fat than the hypothalamus thinks appropriate it will burn it, less and it will store it.

Veganism

VEGANISM – HEALTH ISSUESdfasdf

Veganism is such a hot potato, we are reluctant to deal with it. However, there is so much deliberate misinformation being spread that we feel obliged.

You may gather from that remark we are not big advocates, especially with our numerous other posts suggesting that sugars and starches, whole grain or otherwise, ought to be avoided.

Let us try to separate two aspects of this topic that are frequently entangled and cause much confusion.