Dr Dwight Lundell said,
“I freely admit to being wrong…..today is my day to right the wrong with
medical and scientific fact….insisted heart diseased resulted from the simple
fact of elevated blood cholesterol….the only accepted therapy was prescribing medications
to lower cholesterol and diet that severely restricted fat intake….It is not
working”.
I think this is a statement
with a dramatic picturesque approach, before at all, cardiovascular disease can
refer to differents heart or blood vessel problems, the term is often used to
mean damage to your heart or blood vessels by atherosclerosis, a buildup of
fatty plaques in your arteries, it buildup thickens and stiffens artery walls,
which can inhibit blood flow through your arteries to your organs and tissues (Mayo Clinic Foundation, 2014) .
Atherosclerosis is the
most common cause of cardiovascular disease, but it can be caused by others
correctable problems such as unhealthy diet, sedentary, obesity and smoking. Hyperlipidemia,
included the high blood cholesterol, constitutes one of the most important risk
factors for atherosclerosis (Damjanov, 2012) and cardiovascular diseases.
The discovery a few
years ago that inflammation as concept, in the artery wall is the real cause of
heart disease like Dr Lundell mentions, is really true, but a long time ago, the
medical community in spite of an incompletely understood the interaction
between the critical cellular elements in the atherosclerotic lesion,
postulated theories related to atherosclerosis and cells injury, for example
Rokitansky in 1851, suggested that atherosclerosis begins in the intima with
deposition of thrombus and its subsequent organization by the infiltration of
fibroblasts and secondary lipid deposition, few years later in 1856, Virchow
proposed that atherosclerosis start with lipid transudation into the arterial
wall and its interaction with cellular and extracellular elements, causing
intimal proliferation (Boudi, 2014) . In the 1990s, Ross
and Fuster postulated that vascular injury starts the atherosclerotic process. (Ross, Fuster, & Topol, 1996) .
The above explained
that we were not wrong, but we were finding explanations based on studies and
investigations that were conducted.
Finally, with the
knowledge that we have today, the concept a little clearer about the
inflammation and potential precursors, I agree with Dr Lundell, what we can do
is choose whole foods that our grandmother served and not the manufactured
foods that we found in the grocery today, because eliminating inflammatory
foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, we can
reverse the damage in our arteries.
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