Heart Diet is Plant Based

A healthy heart diet is a low-fat diet. You don’t need the latest drug, in spite of what you hear on TV, if you eat properly and follow a healthful lifestyle.

Yesterday the news on TV was saturated with reports about a study of how healthy people could benefit from taking a drug given to people with cardiovascular problems. The news programs pulled out their big-gun medical reporters and everyone raved about this study.

Unfortunately, way too many people get their information about health strictly from what they hear on the television. This is scary, as many folks don’t realize that the major news outlets present a very biased viewpoint, as their financial backing comes from their advertisers, which increasingly are pharmaceutical companies. No one who watches TV could miss that fact.

Dr. McDougall Sets the Record Straight

I was very happy to read Dr. John McDougall’s intelligent and rationale article in his newsletter today. It presents a much-needed balancing argument to what’s been presented by the mainstream news media. (If you’d like to find out more about Dr. McDougall’s newsletter—and read his entire article—click here. A new window will open.)

Dr. McDougall discusses how the study was funded by AstraZeneca, the maker of the drug Crestor (rosuvastatin). That should be enough to raise a red flag in everyone’s mind.

Instead of choosing to do a study in which people at risk for heart disease events have the underlying causes of their health problems treated (diet and lifestyle), the researchers went the route that would produce the most money for their company by creating a huge and deceitful pharmaceutical advertising campaign and foisting it on the public as good research.

The cost of the drug is about $3.45 per day, amounting to $1259 per year, per patient. This doesn’t include the cost of doctor visits, lab tests, and treatment of the side effects of the medication. The TV PR blitz for the drug didn’t mention the side effects of acute kidney failure or rhabdomyolysis (serious muscle damage).

Heart Disease is Caused by the Western Diet

Eating the Western diet, or SAD (Standard American Diet), is the primary cause of heart attacks and strokes. Secondary contributing factors are smoking and lack of exercise.

Atherosclerosis— inflamed pustules in the blood vessels—is the underlying condition. Atherosclerosis is reversible… with heart diet therapy. There are no dangerous side effects and no added costs involved. And that’s the problem… no profit for the drug companies.

It’s simple. It’s not expensive. Anybody can do it.

Eat a whole foods, low-fat, plant-based diet to heal your body of disease, including heart disease.

If you'd like to read or see videos of testimonials from real people who have done this, visit websites like Dr. McDougall’s or Hallelujah Acres (a new window will open). They are loaded with stories of people who have healed their illnesses by following a simple, plant-based diet.

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