Need An Anti Inflammation Diet?
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Read The Great Cholesterol Lie!

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 If you’re looking for a diet plan that will help your body deal with chronic illness, then an anti inflammation diet may be just what you need.

After reading “The Great Cholesterol Lie” ebook, I have one major complaint. It’s called “The Great Cholesterol Lie” because the author, Dr. Dwight Lundell, is a heart surgeon and he wrote it to teach people how to keep from getting heart disease. That’s all well and good, but the title doesn’t go far enough. This book isn’t just for people trying to prevent heart disease. It should be required reading for anyone trying to stay healthy in today’s world of junk food and popping pills for symptoms.

What The Great Cholesterol Lie is About

See, the whole premise behind this ebook is that cholesterol is not the enemy when it comes to heart disease. Nope, it’s inflammation. But inflammation isn’t just tied to heart disease.  In reality, it’s tied to almost every disease or condition out there in one way or another, including:

• Alzheimer’s
• Arthritis
• Cancer
• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Diabetes Type 2
• Fibromyalgia
• Hypertension
• Impaired Immune Response
• Infections Following Wounds
• Liver Disease
• Pancreatitis
• Stroke

I could go on and on. The point is, chronic inflammation is a contributing factor to a whole lot of ailments.

You Need An Anti Inflammation Diet!

So why am I telling you all this on a health food blog?
Because good health food is a good anti inflammation diet!

“The Great Cholesterol Lie” ebook is full of information and ideas on how to change your lifestyle and get rid of the inflammation, and healthy eating is certainly a big part of that.

There are chapters explaining how the “eating a low fat diet is good for you” myth got started, and why inflammation is the culprit instead. The book explains exactly why the carbohydrate craze and low-fat diets are a problem.

The Whole Picture On How To Fight Inflammation

But low-fat diets aren’t the only problem. While learning to eat the right kind of fats is important, it’s also essential to know about the problems associated with too much sugar in your diet, and other factors that impact your health like smoking, hypertension, stress, obesity and vitamin deficiencies.

And just so you know all this isn’t all a figment of Dr. Lundell’s imagination. “The Great Cholesterol Lie” has a bunch of appendices full of studies showing how the wrong cause for heart disease was targeted. Instead of low-fat diets and statin drugs to control cholesterol, we need to be controlling the chronic inflammation so many of us are living with.

And once again, a big part of the answer is to change our diet.
Good health foods to the rescue!

If you’d like to read more about this ebook,

check out this information on “The Great Cholesterol Lie”.

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One thing to note, I bought this book some time ago, and found the information worthwhile, but you should understand that:

a) This is only available as an ebook.

b) It does come with some bonus videos, but it also costs almost $50.

c) There is a similar print book from Dr. Dwight Lundell called The Cure for Heart Disease: Truth Will Save a Nation .  It’s about $25, so if you’d like to check out a print book from the same author, and want to spend less, that’s another option.

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The Great Cholesterol Lie – Facts And Comments

Busted – The Low Fat Diet Myth

If you’re looking for a healthy low fat diet, don’t waste any more of your time It turns out that a low fat food diet isn’t so great after all.  It fact, is becoming increasingly clear that a low fat diet is in fact, BAD NEWS.  In reality, your body needs fats in your food. 

Some of the necessary functions of fat include:

• Allowing your body to absorb the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K, thus preventing deficiencies of these vitamins.
• Providing energy.
• Preventing fatty acid deficiency.
• Helps taste of food, and keeps food in the stomach longer, providing a greater feeling of satisfaction from the foods eaten.
• Helps your body produce endorphins and prevents essential fatty acid deficiency.

As you can see, it is really important to include fat in your diet.  Fat is part of every cell membrane in your body.  It helps transport nutrients across cell membranes.  It can provide back up energy if blood sugar supplies run out.  It helps transmit nerve impulses, while surrounding and insulating the nerve fibers.

Forget The Low Fat Food Diet And Eat The Right Fats Instead

While a low fat food diet isn’t good for you, just eating any fat you want is just as bad.  You need to chose the right kind of fats to include in your diet.

Avoid saturated fats and trans fats.  These are as bad or worse than no fats.

You should also avoid too many omega-6 fatty acids, which are found in polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy and sunflower oils.  Too much of these types of oils tip the balance of omega-6 fatty acids in your diet, making them pro-inflammatory.

Instead of the 2:1 ratio we should have in our diet of omega-6 fatty acids: omega-3 fatty acids, Americans are generally consuming 20-50 times more omega-6 than omega-3.  And that’s what tips the balance, and the omega-6 fatty acids are then pro-inflammatory.

This is bad because doctors and scientists are discovering chronic inflammation is likely the root cause of many health problems, such as cancer, heart disease, metabolic syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and type 2 diabetes.

Instead, most of the fats you consume should be sources of omega-3 fatty acids, as found in monosaturated fats.  These types of fatty acids are ANTI-inflammatory, and good for you.  It’s important to include them in your diet, because your body cannot create them on its own.

Some good sources of omega-3 fatty acids include:

• Flax seeds
• Walnuts
• Salmon and other fatty fish
• Olive Oil

Easy Healthy Eating Tips

 1. Stop using vegetable oils like cottonseed, corn, safflower and soybean oils. 

 2. Switch to olive oil instead.  Or use some lard or coconut oil.  They’re better than using too much of the omega-6 rich vegetable oils. 

 3. Stick with the omega-3 rich oils and foods!

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Low Fat Diet Dangers

I was poking around on YouTube, and decided to do a search for health food videos just to see what might be there.  Interestingly enough, the first one to pop up was entitled, “Why Soy is NOT a Health Food“, a subject I wrote about a while back.

This video touches on some things I’d mentioned, plus a few more. 

 
It also gives specifics on which soy foods are bad, and why.

However, fermented soy such as the following:

• Miso
• Natto
• Soy sauces
• Tempeh

are actually beneficial. They are aids in preventing and reducing a variety of diseases including certain forms of heart disease and cancers.

Dr. Mercola says, “Understand that I am in no way opposed to soy consumption, only improper soy consumption.  Fermented soy, which includes natto, miso and tempeh, is a healthy food and should be consumed by the masses.”

So although popular non-fermented soy products like fresh and dry soybeans, tofu and soy milk aren’t really health foods, fermented soy foods are good for you.

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Why Soy is NOT a Health Food