Cholesterol Clarity Book Review
Chapter 6 What does heart health really mean?:
The typical heart healthy medical industry promoted guidelines are assumed to be low fat and high carbohydrate. The complete opposite is true.
Cutting out the fat and eating more “healthy wholegrain” will not protect your heart.
Popular culture such as Television shows help to perpetuate the misguided low cholesterol and low fat diet message
Truth is eating fat does not make you fat and is not at fault for heart disease.
7 Why Low Fat Ain’t All That:
Most medical physician have an absolute minimum education and training in the field of nutrition. Most do less then two weeks over their degree then take it no further.
With his bogus and flawed study in 1950s Ansel Keys studied 22 countries but only published 7.
This has been responsible for the erroneous low fat diet we have been led to believe is good for us.
The big food and pharmaceutical industries are profiting from this misinformation
Sugar is the typical ingredient that is used to replace fat when it is removed from a food.
A very comprehensive study produced in 2006 revealed that a low fat diet has no positive impact on heart health had just been ignored by the industry.
Low fat diets for health reason need to be scrutinised.
8 The Twin Villains, Carbs and Vegetable Oils
Triglycerides, VLDL and small LDL particles all go Up when you consume Carbohydrates.
Sugar, grains and starch make you fat and they are all found in Carbohydrates.
High-fat diet studies and almost always preformed with carbohydrates present and never in isolation.
The most dangerous fats you can eat are Omega 6 rich vegetable oils. All of which is being promoted as healthy.
Every packaged item of food found in the supermarket today contains Vegetable oil.
The omega 6 to omega 3 ratio ideally should be 1:1
Most of the population today is consuming a 30:1 fatty acid ratio.
Heart issues are caused by eating oxidized LDL particles which can be found in omega 6 fats.
Do not worry too much about your cholesterol test results.
measuring your oxidized LDL particles is what you should care about.
9 The LDL Particle:
The basic old blood test you have always had is not good enough.
You need to have a particle test done to really assess your risk.
Potentially dangerous particles are Pattern B LDL they are small dense.
The normally harmless particle is the Pattern A LDL cholesterol. The large and fluffy kind.
Until now the LDL cholesterol number on your test is not even a measured value. It is a calculated approximate.
LDL cholesterol has raving sizes they can not be looked at as one bucket.
10 Triglycerides and HDL:
Heart Health Markers:
Clueless about Cholesterol Doctors:
Too Low Cholesterol:
Why Do Cholesterol Level Go Up?
Worried about High Cholesterol:
Cholesterol Guidelines:
Low Fat Vegetarian Myth:
Misinterpreted Cholesterol Results
Cholesterol Test Results Explained
Health Markers to Consider
D you understand your results:
Change your diet to “real food” natural fats and low carbohydrates for optimal health
