Why Worry About Cholesterol? An Anti Inflammation Diet Can Change Your Life!

Are you concerned about cholesterol?

Dr. Dwight Lundell’s book The Cholesterol Lie will help you understand why you should be more concerned about inflammation!

Instead of a cholesterol lowering diet, you should focus on an anti inflammation diet.  Lowering your cholesterol will not reduce your risk of having a heart attack, but reducing the inflammation in your body just might.

Inflammation has everything to do with what you eat, so you are wise to carefully choose your diet.

Inflammation also has everything to do with with inactivity, so you are wise to get moving any way you can.

Inflammation has everything to do with stress, so you are wise to nurture stillness and peace in your life.

Inflammation is also a natural stage of the healing process.

There are 7 stages that disease will follow unless measures are taken to nurture yourself and restore balance.

You can argue family history and genes, but the fact is that disease begins as your body’s attempt to heal itself.  Each phase of the disease process is more effort to restore balance.

Cancer is the final stage of disease, when the cells of the body litterally turn on you as enemy invaders.  Up until that point, all the cells of your body are working in harmony to restore balance … to heal.

Your uncomfortable symptoms of inflammation cause you to stop and really notice what is going on in your body.

If you will spend quiet time with yourself each day, you will notice what your needs are and how to meet them BEFORE you create a crisis that manifests into physical or emotional suffering.

All of your complaints fall somewhere on the list below.

The 7 Stages of Disease Read more

Does Lowering Your Bad Cholesterol Levels Eliminate Your Heart Disease Concerns?

Dr. Dwight Lundell is a heart surgeon who has seen more than his fair share of heart disease.  He knows plenty about the patients he cuts open, and he says that cholesterol is not the concern.

If Dr. Lundell says that lowering cholesterol is NOT your answer, you owe it to yourself to find out why.

Over 25% of the population is taking statin medications because they are VERY concerned about the health of their heart due to bad cholesterol numbers.  There is also a push to begin prescribing these drugs to otherwise healthy people without elevated cholesterol levels.

If statins prevent heart disease, why is heart disease increasing year after year and kills more people than every other cause of death combined? Read more

Is Awareness Enough To Fight Heart Disease?

Being aware is not an action step.  It may inspire you to take action, and it may not.

Making someone aware is lip service.  Asking good questions is a step in the right direction.  Discussion can give life to inspiration.

Inspired action requires that you get past denial.

Denial is very popular.  It feels good.  That is, until your problem gets right in your face.

Even though at this point, you are suffering the consequences of your denial, you may still cling to it.

By feeling like a victim of disease, you are ignoring your part in creating heart disease or any other disease.  Until you take back your power, you will not feel better, and you can’t heal.

When you take responsibility for your health you can embrace healthy new habits, and live your life to the fullest.

Can you take inspired action, and still be in denial?

Well that is a good question.  Usually denial is what keeps you on the side line, or keeps you so attached to your disease process that you never seek out actual help to heal.  If you can’t imagine yourself feeling good and living well, then you won’t be able to achieve it.

Recently I came across a story that tore my heart out.  The story is about a young woman who was definitely taking inspired action.
She was a role model for inspired action, and her family loved and cherished her.

She had struggled with a weight issue all her life.  Her family and friends, and even her “shrink”, considered her a hypochondriac and often joked with her about it.  (After all, she wasn’t too proud to admit that she was.)  Her many complaints fell on deaf ears, and she brushed any concern aside out of habit.

Until……her final complaint.

“I am so dizzy,” she told her mother over the phone.

Then the line went dead and a 19 years young woman, in the prime of her life, was gone.

Over the years she had learned to ignore her discomfort with:

• heavy sweating
• not being able to catch her breath
• being overtired
• working hard to lose weight with little results

This beautiful young woman lost her life to a congenital heart disease called myocardial bridging—a defect where an artery, instead of going where it’s supposed to in the heart actually goes through the heart muscle.

Her story was written by a close friend, who wishes that the American Heart Association would do a better job of raising awareness about Congenital Heart Defects, and remind people that often, genetics is the only cause.

Do you know that there are tests, treatments, and surgical repair for congenital heart defects?

Most people don’t.  If you are far too young for heart disease, but experience symptoms like the ones listed above…..please complain loudly to your health care provider.

Be heard and live!

If you are listening to the American Heart Association, be aware that they promote profitable Cholesterol Lowering Drugs without warning us of the dangers.

Find out what the AHA won’t tell you!

Educate yourself, and be well. Click on the link below to gain access to life saving information from Food Matters!

Reverse Heart Disease and Lower Cholesterol Naturally

Many blessings,

Carrie

PS–

Dr. Dwight Lundell is a heart surgeon who’s book The Cholesterol Lie, will teach you the REAL cause of heart disease and it IS NOT cholesterol!

PPS- Remember everyday:

1. Relax and Release tension
2. Take deeep breaths
3. Be active in a way that adds joy to your life

Plus pure water ~whole foods~sunshine~and laughter

Is American Heart Month Inspiring Your Low Cholesterol Diet?

A healthy heart is truly something to celebrate!

Any inspiration to improve your diet is a good thing.

However, if you are planning to make a contribution to the American Heart Association in honor of American Heart Month, please reconsider.

This “non-profit” organization is so busy supporting the pharmaceutical companies and the “drug it chop it out mentality”, that they have lost site of the fact that diet and lifestyle are the way to reduce heart disease.

Diet and lifestyle do get a lot of lip service from the American Heart Association, but the cash is spent largely on promoting the profit of drugs and surgery.

With the type of money that is available to the American Heart Association, they should be ashamed of their half hearted effort to support the average American on their journey of change.

Change isn’t easy.

It is much easier to build hype around cholesterol lowering drugs and rake in huge profits.

Efforts to educate and facilitate change will take more than a one day event, or even a month of events.  Support needs to be ongoing.  Bringing people together, in an effort to build community is the answer to reducing heart disease.

Change is just too difficult in isolation.

Does the American Heart Association have enough money to support Boys and Girls Clubs, so that kids get active early in life?

Do they have enough money to supply churches and community centers with dried beans and grains?

How about supplementing the electric bill for lung disease and heart failure patients when they can’t afford to operate their home oxygen machines?

How about organizing walking and bike riding clubs, or supporting local organizations to do it?

You need support all year, not just for the month of February!

Diet and lifestyle change is a process.  Talking about it, and creating “awareness”, stops short of actual HELP.

The American Heart Association has an army of volunteers.

Every American, including this army of volunteers, should be asking the American Heart Association just where their money is spent.

They claim to have “invested” over 543 million dollars from 2005 to 2006.  The money, they say, was spent first on research and professional and public education, and then in “advocacy” and community service programs.

Americans need to hold this “charity” accountable.  They CAN do more, and they SHOULD do more!

Want to celebrate American Heart Month? Read more

Have You Heard that Vitamin Pills Won’t Help Heart Disease, but Cholesterol Drugs Are Magic?

Don’t believe the hype. There is no magic pill for health.  If you are not eating fruits and vegetables and getting plenty of exercises, you are not building health.

Real hope for heart disease isn’t in pill form, though many supplements can be helpful.  Would you like trustworthy advice from your health care provider?

The problem is that the most beneficial things you can do for your heart and your health are free. If you only listen to sources that want your dollars, you will pay dearly.

You have the power to build your health and vitality! No matter what your current state of health, you can feel better if you nurture yourself.

The researchers who first impressed the world with cholesterol-lowering drug studies were careful to point out that the wonderful benefits of their study could be achieved by lowering cholesterol with diet and lifestyle changes.

There is no money to be made in advising people to eat better.  Drugs are far more profitable.  However, cholesterol-lowering drugs bring along undesirable side effects that could be far worse than the benefits they apparently offer.

If you take Statin drugs, are you also paying attention to your diet?

The drug companies say that you should be using the drugs in combination with diet and lifestyle changes.

Did your doctor spend time talking with you about HOW to change your diet before he gave you a prescription that could CAUSE heart failure?

The studies credit reduction of CRP, which is a measure of inflammation, as the reason that many more people should be using Statin drugs.

Reducing inflammation within your body is definitely health building.  How can you do that without risking undesirable side effects?

Increasing the amount of fruits and vegetables in your diet will reduce inflammation, thereby reducing your risk of heart attack and stroke.

The only reason to advise drug use BEFORE giving serious effort to support diet and lifestyle change, is TO MAKE MONEY.

Is there a magical way to build health, and reduce the risk of ALL forms of heart disease, diabetes, and stroke?

I wouldn’t say that it is magic, but it is simple and easy to do. Read more

What the Hell is Heart Health?

I mean, really, what exactly does that mean?

Well to most people, that means that the doctor said your cholesterol level is low, and he DID NOT tell you that you have heart disease.

No news is good news, right?

Well, not exactly.  You can’t call that heart health, because the first sign of heart disease could be a heart attack.  And for women, that first heart attack is devastating.  Most women don’t survive the first year, following a heart attack.

The statistics do NOT look good for women and heart surgery either.  That is why the drugging surgical side of heart disease doesn’t know how to help women with this disabling disease, for the most part.

This is one reason that so many women are not diagnosed sooner, when lifestyle changes are more quickly beneficial.

If your doctor doesn’t tell you, that you should be concerned, then where will you hear it? Read more

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