Mulligan
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This show was on CNN last night. A few interesting points mentioned on the program were: No discernible difference in blood level readings(LDL,etc) between people having heart attacks and not. Numbers are misunderstood in their importance. What is important is not your LDL number but what type of LDL blood particles you have. Big LDL particles cause no problem, the little LDL particles do as they are the ones that stick to artery wall and clog it up. A specific heart test called a heart calcium test ( if I remember correctly) gives a more accurate assessment of blockage and heart condition. They went through the life of Bill Clinton to explain this process and interviewed him. He had all the blood tests, stress tests,etc. and was still coming up excellent. They never caught his problems because this calcium test is only recently being used. Body types had no relationship to potential heart attacks. They were advocating that if you eat a certain way heart attacks can be eliminated altogether if diet is changed. Some of doctors on show implied that almost all heart attacks are caused by the types of food we eat. They didn't fully go into the proper diet, but kept alluding to the "South Beach Diet"and of course eliminating the usual suspects of meat, cheese, processed, and fatty foods.
They also showed blood samples after the blood was separated from the plasma. You could definitely see the difference in the plasma part between people who scored a low number on the calcium test versus the high number. The low was clear, while the high scorer would have murkier colored.
Clinton reported he is feeling great and is trying to reach his high school weight. He is now on a vegan diet. he modified some after his first bypass, but that didn't do enough as he would up having to get a splint put in, thus undergoing his complete diet change this past year.
While I am eating better, I am no where near where they say I should be diet wise. I would like to do better, but it might take a miracle for me to wean myself from meat.
They also showed blood samples after the blood was separated from the plasma. You could definitely see the difference in the plasma part between people who scored a low number on the calcium test versus the high number. The low was clear, while the high scorer would have murkier colored.
Clinton reported he is feeling great and is trying to reach his high school weight. He is now on a vegan diet. he modified some after his first bypass, but that didn't do enough as he would up having to get a splint put in, thus undergoing his complete diet change this past year.
While I am eating better, I am no where near where they say I should be diet wise. I would like to do better, but it might take a miracle for me to wean myself from meat.