Heart & Arterial Disease

Introduction

Table of Contents

The book, Heart & Arterial Disease is a guide to one the most common and most lethal of medical problems. This book explains why the 100 million Canadians and Americans who have high blood pressure and atherosclerosis are at risk of having heart attacks and strokes. They should seek the benefits of complete diet revision therapy! 

The book is intended to be used with the Alpha Nutrition Program  The program is modular and versatile and can be adapted to a variety of disease conditions where diet and nutrition play a role.  This text provides background knowledge, helpful in understanding arterial disease, its association with delayed pattern food allergy and the relevance of diet revision.

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Author S. J.Gislason MD

Center for Arterial Disease

Alpha Nutrition Program

Obstruction of blood vessels is a major cause of premature disability and death. Heart attacks and strokes are the most obvious consequence of damaged arteries and increased clotting of blood. The main event of a heart attack is the occlusion by a sudden blood clot of one or more blood vessels supplying the heart muscle.

No group of diseases has received more attention than diet-related arterial disease. Heart attacks have received the most attention. No single disease has received more public attention and educational effort both from government agencies and from private fund-raising organizations such as the American and Canadian Heart Associations. When it began, there were two villains, cholesterol and salt. Now, we realize that there are many villains, some yet to be discovered. Immune mediated inflammation in arterial walls  is the latest villain top be recognized. Immune activity can be activated by infection s, drugs, and good proteins which people eat everyday.

Arterial disease is a whole body disease, but tends to be managed by physicians and surgeons as a localized disease. In other words, when the heart arteries are plugged you go to see a cardiologist and then a heart surgeon. When the vessels to the brain are plugged, you go to a neurologist and then possibly a neurosurgeon. When the vessels to your leg are plugged, you go to a peripheral vascular surgeon. When the vessels to your penis are plugged, you go to a urologist and a marital counselor. Your family doctor is supposed to help you prevent the disease, but time is limited and resources may be meager at the doctor’s office.

It turns you that the only person in the whole expensive medical/surgical network that can make sense whole-body arterial disease is the patient! It is up to you, dear reader to solve this problem by removing the causes! This book is dedicated to the effort of intelligent well-motivated people to be well-informed and to take change of their own management. Dependency on physicians and drugs obtained at the pharmacy is not the path to a long and healthy life.

Preventing Heart Disease and Stroke

Fatty degeneration of arterial walls have complex origins in the diets and living conditions that are common in Europe and North America and occur less often among vegetable-eating populations who get more exercises and seldom eat dairy products, meat, and other high protein, high fat foods. Well-known risk factors are diabetes, high blood pressure, smoking, excess body fat, and physical inactivity. If you smoke tobacco in any form, you have to stop immediately. The negative health effects of smoking are so potent and diverse, that all other considerations are overwhelmed. Return to this book when you are a non-smoker.

The risk of heart attacks positively correlates with higher blood levels of cholesterol; the risk of strokes does not. The mechanisms in diabetic patients appear to be multiple but increased levels of glucose and fructose seem to play havoc with blood vessel walls. A cascading series of adverse events follows the onset of high blood sugars and can only be controlled by strict elimination of free sugar from the diet and complete, comprehensive diet revision associated with increased exercise. The problems of diabetics can be generalized somewhat to all people with atherosclerosis and a prudent policy would be reduce the intake sugars, sucrose and fructose in the diet of all people at risk.