Question: Is heart disease a natural process for humans?
Answer: No. It is an unnatural disease created by eating unnatural foods.
By work of an angiogram, it has been proven that Hunters and Gatherers had clean arteries at the age of 80. Meanwhile, Modern Man develops plaque by the age of 50. It has been shown that even modern newborns have early fatty streaks. If hunters/ gatherers had no heart disease at a ripe old age and their kids, who evolved into modern man, start to develop plaque buildup by the age of 50, it suggests that it is more of an unnatural disease created by man eating the wrong kind of foods. We have evolved and created heart disease by eating an unnatural diet loaded with sugar, starch, and saturated fats, not to mention salt, smoking, and a sedentary lifestyle. Today, we think these are necessary for survival and cannot sacrifice them. The secret is to sacrifice the Seven S's that are sugar, starch, saturated fats, salt, smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, and stress.
Question: How did an unnatural diet become natural?
Answer: Nature gives food to us which are both addictive and non-addictive.
Both kinds are scarcely available. We, by help of intellect, have exploited the addicting foods by growing more grains and processing these grains to create sugar, starches, and saturated fats. In creating the full spectra of an unnatural diet and adapting to it, we have evolved to a point of accepting heart disease as a natural disease, and at this rate it is bound to affect everyone after a certain period of time.
Question: What should the goal be?
Answer: To live long and healthy lives without medication and to prevent and reverse heart disease. The secret to a long life is calories: the lack of them.
The total cholesterol levels for hunter-gatherers, wild primates, and wild animals, generally range from about 70 to 140mg/dl (corresponding to low-density lipoprotein levels of about 35 to 70mg/dl).
The mean cholesterol levels of modern Westernized humans are almost twice these normal values
(LDL of 130mg/dl). In modern human, atherosclerosis is present in up to 50% by age 50. In contrast, hunter-gatherer population showed no evidence for atherosclerosis even in the 8th decade of life.
Hunters and gatherers usually had average cholesterol of 110 and a calorie intake of less than 1400 calories a day. They were physically active with low stress levels, and their diet did not constitute any sugar, starch, saturated fat, or salt.
Question: Can we live to be 100 and lead a normal, healthy life without medication?
Answer: Yes. Look around. We do not see anyone over 40 who are not on any medication. How did this happen? How can one live without medication? By giving up the seven sins: the Seven S's (sugar, starch, saturated fats, salt, smoking, a sedentary lifestyle, and stress). By comparison, a modern man has blocked arteries by the age of 50, newborn kids have fatty streaks as early as day #1, and the normal modern adult consumes more than 3000 calories, most of which are empty calories predominantly coming from sugars, starches, and saturated fats. In addition, he tends to spice up these empty calories with salt and also enjoys smoking and leading a very sedentary lifestyle. The problem is that we have hundreds of different choices of bad foods. We go to dieticians and they put us on a diet by narrowing those hundreds of choices down to ten. But how can you expect to do well when your initial choices are already unhealthy?
Which one will you choose?
Most people have the impression that foods like fruit, cereal, skim milk, rice, whole wheat pasta, whole wheat bread, brown rice, and moderate meat and alcohol consumption are all good for you. But if you look closely, most of those give you high levels of sugar, starch, and saturated fat.
Fruits? Nature gives us fruit. How can they be bad? Well, ask yourself, "What do fruits give us?"
