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Stress Diet and Your Heart: A Lifetime Program for Healing Your Heart Without Drugs or Surgery Customer Review: Helpful book!
The books by Ornish are most helpful and flow out of solid research. This is a good lifestyle to follow!
Customer Review: Low-Fat Diets Are Dangerous For 25% Of The Population
Right after a massive heart attack, my cardiologist put me on the Ornish Program. Yes, my total cholesterol dropped, but so did my HDL (good cholesterol). My LDL (bad cholesterol) increased. Most alarmingly, in less than a month, my triglycerides more than doubled! My cardiologist had no explanation for this phenomenon. So, I ate even less fat (down to 5% of total calories). My blood chemistry did not improve.
Fortunately, I changed cardiologists and found that for about 25% of the population the low-fat diet of Ornish’s approach actually triggers worse heart disease. This group has an inherited condition that causes small-particle LDL syndrome, a deadly condition that at least triples heart attack risk. (Patients with this condition are said to have Pattern B LDL subclass.) Even the staid American Heart Association last year recognized that for these patients, it is better to change the types of fat a patient eats (switching from saturated fats to monounsaturated fats) rather than drastically reducing fat intake.
Ornish ignores this phenomenon with the comment that some patients don’t respond to his treatment. Not responding and getting worse are very different things. I would think that Ornish would at least avail himself of the advanced cholesterol testing that would identify patients who have genetically-caused small-particle LDL syndrome BEFORE treating them with a low-fat diet.
The rabid, no-fat-low-fat mantra may work for some patients, but for those who “don’t respond”, it is deadly, as proven by several scientific studies. In fact, two recent studies by the University of California at Berkeley showed that even normal men (who did not have heart disease and who did not have small-particle LDL syndrome) began producing large amounts of small LDL particles when put on a low-fat diet. 41% of the test group converted to the deadly disease state in six weeks, thus tripling their heart attack risk.
For those with these inherited killer genes, a completely different approach is necessary. But most important, it’s necessary to first use advanced cholesterol testing (sometimes called cholesterol subclass testing) to find out if a patient has the genetically-induced form of heart disease that responds badly to a low-fat diet. This testing is different than the oft-given cholesterol panel that shows HDL and LDL. Such panels are highly inaccurate in determining the presence of small-particle LDL syndrome.
Without advanced cholesterol testing, both heart patients and normal individuals who adopt a low-fat diet are playing Russian Roulette. The good news is that for those who have small-particle LDL syndrome, proper treatment can reverse coronary blockage without drugs or surgery. I know. I have this disease and after I got worse with Ornish’s diet, my cardiologist and I watched my coronary blockage melt away with an approach that is totally different from what Ornish recommends.
Drug Addiction Detox - 2 Effective Methods
The goal of a detoxification program should be to rid the body of all toxins that may be causing the biochemical imbalances in the body. This includes any drugs, as well as dietary and environmental toxins.
Chelation therapy can be performed as an outpatient, is painless and takes approximately 3 hrs. The procedure is given intravenously with a solution of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) with vitamins and minerals. As part of the full treatment program, a low-fat diet and appropriate exercise is recommended.
In our society where Eastern and Western medicine combine to give us the best of both worlds, the acceptance of colon hydrotherapy has continued to grow.
Withdrawal symptoms will vary depending on the toxins in the body and your overall health condition. If the detox is done correctly, the withdrawal symptoms will be minimized.
To compare an enema to a colon hydrotherapy - an enema only reaches the rectum and lower part of the colon. But with the colon hydrotherapy the entire length of the colon is reached. Colon hydrotherapy uses lower pressures than enemas and is much more effective.
Patients interested in chelation therapy should choose a doctor that is experienced and has completed the training conducted by the American College of Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) or a doctor that follows the protocol of the American Board of Chelation Therapy.
Colon Hydrotherapy is mostly provided by specialty treatment centers and sometimes associated with Naturopathic services. It is the irrigation of the colon using a small amount of water or solution without the use of drugs. The purpose is to aid the elimination from the bowel. The procedure is used in detoxification from chemical exposure or abuse and also to relieve constipation.
Chelation therapy is the administration of chelating agents to remove heavy metals from the body. The most common forms of heavy metal intoxication involve lead, arsenic or mercury. Results are the best when chelation therapy is administered in conjunction with oral supplements such as Ginkgo biloba and phosphatidylserine, that act as oral chelators in the body. Chelation therapy has been used on more than one million patients in the U.S. over the past 50 years successfully.
Colonic irrigation should not be used in people with diverticulitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease, severe or internal hemorrhoids or tumors in the rectum or colon. It also should not be used soon after bowel surgery (unless directed by your health care provider). Regular treatments should be avoided by people with heart or kidney disease.
In some cases you should not attempt to detox on your own. For instance, in cases of severe alcoholism, withdrawal can be life-threatening. You could experience the DTs (delirium tremens) and should be under the care of a professional addiction treatment facility.
Chelation Therapy
Colon Hydrotherapy
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