Medicine in islam

*Without inflammation, cholesterol won't accumulate in blood vessel walls and cause heart disease
Heart Surgeon Admits HugeMistake!
By Dwight Lundell, MD
Part 1 of a 2-part article (see part 2 below)
We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire
a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult toadmit we are wrong.
So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with
25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries,
today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.
I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion
makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending
education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from
the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.
The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol
and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we
insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these
recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in
malpractice.
It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible.
The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the
real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how
heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.
The long-establishe d dietary recommendations have created epidemics of
obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical
plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic
consequences.
Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin
medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our
diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever
before.
Statistics from the American Heart Associationshow that 75 million
Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes
and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger
and younger people in greater numbers every year.
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no
way that cholesterol wouldaccumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and
cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would
move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation
that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's natural
defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The
cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these
bacterial and viral invaders.However, if we chronically expose the body
to injury by toxins or foodsthe human body was neverdesigned to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.
What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods
or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well,
smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choicewillfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstreamdiet that
is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not
knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This
repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease,
stroke, diabetes and obesity. Let me repeat that.The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.
What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they
are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour
and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6
vegetable oils like soybean,corn and sunflower that are found in many
processed foods.
In Part 2 of this two-part article, I'll discuss which foods cause
inflammation, how those foods trigger the inflammatory process, and the
foods to eat that will cure inflammation.
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Part 2
by Dwight Lundell MD 02/06/2009/