A safe, effective, and revolutionary program for lowering homocysteine levels and cutting your risk of heart disease
In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Kilmer S. McCully explains what is really behind the epidemic of heart disease. For many years, clogged arteries have been inaccurately viewed as the cause, rather than a symptom, of heart disease. Now, McCully shows you how to cut your risk of heart disease by controlling the real culprit, homocysteine. Considered one of the most significant medical breakthroughs in recent years, McCully's findings have been validated by numerous large-scale studies. The Heart Revolution:
- Challenges the long-held assumption that lowering cholesterol is the key to preventing heart disease
- Explains how eating vitamin B-rich food can control homocysteine levels
- Lays out a plan with menus for putting more B vitamins in our diet
- Discusses how food processing and additives compromise our health
- Explains how costly cholesterol-lowering medicines can actually harm our health
Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart
Pork Chops with Potatoes and Onions, Veal with Wine and Mushrooms, Guacamole, Omelettes. This is not your typical diet program. Dr. McCully offers real food choices with fresh ingredients available just about everywhere. The focus is on delicious foods that will leave you satisfied. The purpose is to make sure you're getting enough of the vitamins needed to prevent heart disease—B6, B12, and folic acid, as well as essential, phytochemicals, fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential oils. It's easy to follow this plan as it relies on foods you want to eat with little preparation time and tons of variety.
What you believe about heart disease is about to change. Many Americans, including medical scientists, have a one-track mind when it comes to the condition. In the past, fats and cholesterol in the diet were blamed for causing heart disease. But years of medical research have produced no convincing evidence that these components of foods actually cause hardening of the arteries. In fact, scientists have proven that pure cholesterol does not cause arteriosclerosis and that elevation of blood cholesterol is a symptom--not a cause--of heart disease. Discoveries about a substance in our bodies, homocysteine, are revolutionizing our understanding of the cause of the nation's number one killer. We have learned that deficiencies of B vitamins in the diet--folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin B12--trigger heart disease by raising the level of homocysteine in the blood. Now there is a way to prevent heart disease and to achieve a longer, healthier life. All you have to do is improve your diet.
These simple yet revolutionary discoveries and concepts are very different from what we've been told for years. Heart disease has been studied, researched, and discussed, and yet it's still the number one killer in this country. How could all the medical experts be wrong about something this big, this important? Could we experience a revolution in our thinking in this day and age? We understand how Copernicus changed the way we viewed the Earth, not as the center of the universe, but as a planet revolving around the sun. That's how the word "revolution" took on its profound meaning. But that was five hundred years ago, and there was less information available in those days. Certainly today we would know if the experts were off base. Maybe not.
There is a revolution going on. The way we look at disease and aging, especially heart disease, is changing. The previously touted dangers of dietary fats and cholesterol need to be reconsidered, and existing theories need to be revised because of the new discoveries about homocysteine and heart disease.
In the past few decades, deaths from heart disease have actually gone down. Why? The National Institutes of Health can't explain it. Our eating habits have not improved; in fact they've gotten worse. We eat more fat and cholesterol than ever and our blood cholesterol levels are up. The experts can't explain declining deaths from heart disease in terms of medical therapy, or changes in smoking or exercise patterns. Is it possible the cholesterol theory is just plain wrong?
There are more unanswered questions. How do we explain that a large percentage of patients with heart disease have normal cholesterol levels? Or that the French, who love pate de foie gras and red wine, have a much lower incidence of heart disease than do abstemious Americans? Or that Eskimos of Greenland or the Masai of Africa who eat meat-based diets have almost no heart disease? No one has been able to explain these paradoxes. Until now.
The millions of research dollars spent trying to prove the cholesterol theory have all come up empty-handed. The eighty-five-year reign of the cholesterol theory of heart disease is coming to an end. Our thinking has to change.
In this book I will present a totally new way of looking at the nation's number one killer, heart disease. Homocysteine, an amino acid present in our bodies, has been identified as the cause of heart disease--as well as blood clots, stroke, and gangrene. The homocysteine theory of heart disease has gained attention because it has been proven--sometimes by the very studies that were trying to validate the cholesterol theory. What's more, keeping homocysteine levels in the safe range doesn't require expensive medication...
