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by Konstantin Monastyrsky
Dietary fiber in food and supplements is broadly promoted for the prevention of heart disease because, allegedly, it lowers cholesterol. Actually, this is a lie — not only
does fiber not prevent heart
disease, it also increases your risk of atherosclerosis, heart attack, sudden cardiac arrest,
and stroke by reducing HDL (“good”
) cholesterol and blocking the assimilation of essential nutrients. The report also focuses on fiber's role in
malnutrition, obesity, diabetes, and digestive disorders.
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If all you ever eat is all you‘ve ever ate,
then all you‘ll ever get is all you ever got.
A paraphrase of old Texas proverb
Introduction
Greetings! My name is Konstantin
Monastyrsky (bio). I am a medical
writer, performance nutrition consultant, and an
expert in forensic nutrition (background). The subject of this investigative report is
the popular claim that dietary fiber in food and supplements may reduce your
risk of heart disease!
This is, for example, a box of Cheerios
Toasted Whole Grain Oat cereal with a heart-shaped cereal bowl right in the
center, and a blue banner across: “Oats, To Help Naturally Lower Cholesterol!”
— it proclaims.
This cereal calls itself Strong Heart —
the height of cynicism, considering its carbs-loaded content. Again, a
heart-shaped bowl upfront, the same indirect promotion on the back: “I help
my heart become stronger by starting every morning with Kellogg's Smart Start
Strong Heart!”
Sure, dream on?
Not to miss the party, this is Quaker
Oatmeal Squares from the granddaddy of oats cereals. Exact same deal: the heart
in the center of the box, and the message: “Oatmeal helps reduce cholesterol.”
You don't eat morning cereals? Then, this
popular fiber laxative is ready to save you: “Metamucil may reduce heart disease
risk by lowering cholesterol” — claims its web page [link].
And It also promotes itself as a weight loss
supplement, digestive aid, diabetes preventive, and osteoporosis remedy... Oh,
my!
Actually, none of these claims are true.
Neither Cheerios Oat cereal, nor Quaker Oatmeal, nor Kellogg's Smart Start, nor
Metamucil will lower your cholesterol significantly enough to protect you from
heart disease.
In fact, it is an intentional and
well-practiced lie, because according to all the clinical studies ever
conducted, the effect of soluble fiber in oats and psyllium on blood cholesterol
level is so insignificant, it can't materially reduce anyone's chance of
developing heart disease.
The most objective and representative of
these studies was published in the highly respected Journal of American Clinical
Nutrition under the title “Cholesterol-lowering effects of dietary fiber: a
meta-analysis.”
In this particular research the scientists
from the Harvard University Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health
analyzed the results of 67 completed clinical trials in order to
determine the median affect of fiber from oats and psyllium on blood
cholesterol.
And this is what they concluded:
“Various soluble fibers reduce total and LDL
cholesterol by similar amounts. The effect is small within the practical range
of intake. For example, 3 grams soluble fiber from oats - that's 3 servings of
oatmeal at 28 grams each - can decrease total and LDL cholesterol by
approximately 0.13 mmol/dL. Increasing soluble fiber can make only a small
contribution to dietary therapy to lower cholesterol.”
[link]
And this is what it all means in plain English:
To begin, you need to consume three full
servings of oatmeal to affect your cholesterol level by a small amount. That's
48 grams of pure carbs in just one meal, or the equivalent of having three full
tablespoons of sugar. For anyone suffering from heart disease or diabetes, that
many carbs for breakfast alone is literally a 'death wish.'
Next, three servings of fiber decrease total
and LDL cholesterol by just 0.13 mmol/dL — that is a scientific measurement
which translates to a tiny 5 milligram per deciliter of blood. Thus, if your
total cholesterol, for example, is 280 mg/dL, adding fiber will reduce it only
to 275 mg/dL. As any cardiologist will tell you, 1.7% reduction of total
cholesterol is
as helpful as prayer. Well, actually, prayer is probably more helpful...
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“As any cardiologist will tell you, 1.7%
reduction of total cholesterol is as helpful as prayer. Well,
actually, prayer is probably more helpful...” |
Finally, increasing fiber consumption above
three servings isn't practical. The reduction of cholesterol from extra fiber is
just too small to count on? If that's what you are after, you'll need a
prescription?
By this point I wouldn't be surprised if you ask me the following question:
— Mr. Monastyrsky, but how come these companies promote fiber to prevent
heart disease when doing so is absolutely pointless?
Well, they are certainly not expecting you to study The American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition the way I did. In the minds of their marketing and
sales executives you are just a total schmuck!
They know — if they repeat often
enough that fiber lowers cholesterol, eventually everyone, from your uncle's dog
to your doctor, will buy into the myth that fiber prevents heart disease.
Naturally, the next question is:
— Mr. Monastyrsky, it can't be true that they are all so wrong about
fiber... Can you prove it?
Absolutely! Lets review the facts...
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Part 2. The Facts
Exposing The Impostor: A Low-Fat Diet Brings Down Cholesterol Even More Without Fiber?
Anyone who reads small print, knows that
fiber has no effect on cholesterol unless it is also accompanied by a low-fat,
low-cholesterol diet. What is not as well known — the exact same diet reduces
cholesterol even more when fiber is removed. Here are the facts:
Lets begin from the perfunctory small print,
just like on this web page: “The fiber in Metamucil is proven to lower
cholesterol*” Then, the footnote explains: Only “?as a part of diet
low in saturated fat and cholesterol.” [link].
Here is Cheerios Oat Cereal: “Oats
lower cholesterol,” — and the exact same catch in the small print at the
bottom: “...in a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol.”
And again -- the identical stipulation on
the box of Quaker Oatmeal Squares: “ ?in a diet low in saturated fat and
cholesterol"
These disclaimers are actually required by
the Food and Drug Administration to accompany health claims [link
(oats),
link (psyllium)], related to fiber
and cholesterol because, according to the American Heart Association,
“A fiber supplement added to a diet otherwise high in
saturated fat and cholesterol provides dubious cardiovascular
advantages.” [link]
Ironically the exact same low-fat diet
reduces cholesterol even more without any fiber, and that is the top reason why
the American Heart Association has been promoting low-fat food in the first
place.
In essence, it was well known in advance
that adding fiber to a diet low in fat and cholesterol will demonstrate some
cholesterol reduction simply because this is what these diets do with or without
fiber!
And it also means that all of these clinical
trials of fiber's prowess amount to nothing but a well-staged charade to justify
the marketing of oat cereals and psyllium laxatives as functional food, capable
of preventing heart disease.
So, there you have it:
—Add soluble fiber to a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet, and you get a
meaningless 1.7% reduction of cholesterol;
—Or, endure the exact same diet without fiber, and your cholesterol goes
down six to seven percent;
—Or, if you missed the small print, and are enjoying your regular diet,
extra fiber will have zero effect on cholesterol, except hastening the arrival
of heart disease from all those extra carbs in your bowl of oatmeal -- the exact
opposite of what you are expecting from adding fiber to your presumably healthy
diet!
Not an easy choice...
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Flirting With The Devil: Low-Fat,
Low-Cholesterol Diets
Increase The Risk Of Heart Disease
As incredulous as it may sound, a diet low
in fat and cholesterol, recommended to accompany fiber, may actually increase
your risk of heart disease. When most of the fiber trials were conducted in the
nineties, the most prominent brand of the low-fat, low-cholesterol diet was
called Step I [link],
and it was heavily promoted by the American Heart Association to reduce blood
cholesterol. The Step I diet contained less than 5% of saturated
fat, very little cholesterol, and a ton of carbs -- 40% to 50% to be
exact.
Author's note: I refer to
the Step I diet's saturated fat content by weight (g, 5%), while the AHA refers to it by caloric value (cal, 10%). This tactic is commonly used by the
promoters of low-fat diets to make them appear less restrictive. Since each gram of fat contains 9 calories, the ratio by weight is slightly less than half of its caloric value.
It wouldn't be such a big deal if the Step I diet was just a harmless, poor-tasting chow if not for this catch... The
Division of Gerontology at the University of Maryland has investigated the
effects of the Step I diet on postmenopausal overweight women - one of the
highest risk groups for heart disease. Their findings were duly reported by the
Journal of the American Dietetic Association. [link]
As was expected, the Step I diet reduced
the ladies total and LDL cholesterol by 8% and 6% respectively, but
their HDL cholesterol fell by a whopping 16%. The medical community
wasn't pleased. Here is what Dr. Alan Gaby wrote in the article entitled
Problem with American Heart Association Step I diet and published by the
highly regarded Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients:
"In women, a
low HDL cholesterol concentration is a stronger independent predictor of
cardiovascular disease risk than is elevated total cholesterol or LDL
cholesterol. Therefore, women who follow American Heart Association
guidelines for lowering their serum cholesterol may actually be increasing
their risk of heart disease" [link]
So, there you have it again: Adding fiber to
a low-fat diet, low-cholesterol may actually increase your risk of heart
disease, particularly if you happen to be a woman close to or after the
menopause.
Guess what the American Heart Association
did in response to this fiasco...
What else do you expect -- it replaced the
disgraced Step I diet with brand new Step II. This 2.0 update
restricted fats even more, and, at the same time, increased the carbs content up
to 60%!
So I wasn't at all surprised to read* in a recent study by
the Harvard School of Public Health [link],
that “the life expectancy for American women is declining for the first time
since the Spanish influenza epidemic in 1918.” [link].
With a fiber-fortified diet like Step Two,
how can it not?
Author's note: In video I read the quote from the Washington
Post article about the
underlying Harvard's research while referring to
the research itself. Both links are provided above
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No Bugs, Time To Worry: Fiber Cause
Serious Side Effects,
Particularly In Healthy Individuals
Fiber's side effects on digestion are an
open secret. The moment, for example, a patient is admitted into the GI wing of
any hospital, physicians immediately prescribe a low-density diet, which is
doctor-speak for fiber-free fare.
And the healthier you are -- the stronger
the side effects. When there aren't any, it simply means fiber is passing
through your intestines unfermented because the bacteria were killed sometime
ago, usually by the antibiotics or heavy metals in dental amalgams.
But as long as your intestinal flora is
alive, fiber stimulates fermentation, just like when making beer or wine. The
resulting build up of gases and acids causes bloating, abdominal cramps,
flatulence, and, often, diarrhea.
These unpleasant conditions are commonly
blamed on gluten sensitivity, lactose intolerance, yeast overgrowth, parasites,
irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulosis, and even
premenstrual syndrome, while, in reality, they all result from the fermentation
of fiber, plain and simple.
If you doubt my words, that much is said on
the warnings that accompany any laxative with psyllium fiber. Here is a representative example from Rite
Aid's web site [large drug store chain in the United States
— Ed.]:
"Bloating,
gas, and a feeling of fullness may occur. If these effects continue or
become bothersome, inform your doctor. Notify your doctor if you experience:
stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, rectal bleeding, unrelieved constipation.
If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or
pharmacist."
[link,
search for “metamucil”, click on the result: “METAMUCIL CAPSULES.”
Direct link to the article isn't available ] That's a handful even for a prescription
drug, but for a health food?
Some may argue:
— But Mr. Monastyrsky, these side effects don't apply to natural fiber in
cereals, or fresh fruits and veggies...
Not so fast... If you recall, the Harvard's
meta-analysis specifically noted that all fibers work exactly the same! In other
words, what is true for psyllium, is also true for oats and all other kinds of
soluble fibers.
So ask yourself:
—Is it worth reducing your cholesterol by the meaningless percent or two
in exchange for potential “stomach cramps, nausea, vomiting, rectal
bleeding and unrelieved constipation?”
I think not?
Alternatively, you may also take antibiotics
to wipe out intestinal bacteria, so you can keep on having fiber. And many do
just that, usually with a willing help from their doctors...
Unfortunately, the untimely death of your
intestinal bacteria also causes diarrhea for some, constipation for others, as
well as hair loss, uncontrollable bleedings, reduced immunity, and a host of
other health problems related to disbacteriosis — a medical term for this
condition.
So ask yourself again:
—Is it worth going bald and becoming constipated over a daily bowl of
oatmeal?
And that would be the least of your
problems!
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Quick Fix Or Big Mess? Mineral
Deficiencies Increase
The Risk Of Heart Disease
Think with me about it — what's is the therapeutic value of fiber if its digestive side effects
rob your heart naked from the nutrients essential for its flawless functioning?
And not just your heart, but also your
blood, and your lungs, and your arteries, and your brain... The whole body,
literally...
When the Circulation journal published yet
another study about fiber and cholesterol, this is what it said about fiber's
affect on digestion:
“Potential risks of excessive use of fiber supplements
include reduced mineral absorption and a myriad of gastrointestinal
disturbances.” [link]
Well, I'll leave it up to you to figure out
what this “myriad of gastrointestinal disturbances” will do for you health, but
here is what "reduced mineral absorption" means for your heart:
Take essential calcium, magnesium, and
potassium... Their deficiencies cause unstable blood pressure and arrhythmia,
which, in turn, may cause congestive heart failure, ischemic heart attack, or
sudden cardiac arrest.
How about indispensible iron? It deficiency
causes anemia, which leads to cardiomyopathy - a condition behind sudden cardiac
arrest and near instant death;
Or take chromium and vanadium... Their
deficiency contributes to obesity and diabetes, which are the primary
contributing factors to heart disease;
With these few, I've just scratched the
surface. You can learn much more about mineral deficiencies effect on your
health in any medical reference.
And, by the way, did you notice their choice
of words to quantify "gastrointestinal disturbances" -- not several, not many,
not numerous, but "a myriad."
There must have been an unusual amount of
mayhem among the test subjects, if the editors of this academic journal let this
completely unscientific language make its way into this article!
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More To Fat Than Meets The Eye: Fiber
Increases The Risk Of
Heart Disease By Blocking Fat-Soluble Vitamins
Would you agree with me, that getting your
daily fix of essential vitamins is the whole rational for “healthy
nutrition?”
Well, as strange as it may sound, fiber,
particularly the soluble variety in oats and psyllium, prevents these vitamins
from assimilating in the first place because it blocks the absorption of fat and
bile in the intestines.
In clinical terms, this outcome is called
fat malabsorption, and, this is, in fact, fiber's principal mechanism of action
for reducing blood cholesterol.
Unfortunately, fat malabsorption also blocks
the assimilation of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. In this case, even
supplements are useless, because the blocking mechanism is exactly the same as
with food sources.
According to The Merck Manual of Diagnosis
and Therapy, a deficiency of these vitamins may cause the following pathologies:
Lets start with Vitamin A:
"Vitamin A
deficiency can result from [?] fat malabsorption. Deficiency impairs
immunity and hematopoiesis", which is the blood's ability to form new blood
cells. [link]
I hope you don't need me to tell you that
the impaired immunity and the failure to form new blood cells may kill you much,
much sooner than high cholesterol...
Next, is vitamin D:
"[Fat]
Malabsorption can deprive the body of dietary vitamin D? Vitamin D
deficiency can cause muscle aches, muscle weakness, and bone pain at any
age." [link]
Do you need me to remind you that your
heart is made from muscle tissue too, and the same aches and weakness that may
affect your feet or back, will affect your heart just as bad??
I bet you can find a vitamin D deficiency in
practically all of the 300,000 hearts which suddenly stop beating each year in
the United States? [link,
pdf]
The outcome of vitamin E deficiency is
equally disturbing. According to Merk, it is:
"Usually due
to fat malabsorption? Vitamin E deficiency causes fragility of RBCs?"
[link]
The RBCs is doctor-speak for red blood
cells, the same cells that carry oxygen from your lungs to your heart, and from
your heart to everywhere else? When red blood cells become fragile, the heart
begins to work extra hard to pump oxygen until one day it simply stops beating
because it doesn't have enough oxygen to feed even itself?
The last troublemaker is Vitamin K, and for
exactly the same reasons: deficiency:
"Results from
fat malabsorption [?] decreases levels of prothrombin and other vitamin
K-dependent coagulation factors, causing defective coagulation and,
potentially, bleeding." [link]
When all this happens, you heart may still
be okay, but you may bleed to death from any internal bleeding, due to, for
example tooth extraction, stomach ulcers, hemorrhoids, trauma from a fall or car
accident, blood vessel rupture, or minor stroke?
Interestingly, long before my involvement in
nutrition, my late mother, God bless her heart, almost died from unremitting
blood loss after a trivial tooth extraction. For the next twenty-odd years we
though she was hemophiliac, because every minor cut required a visit to
emergency room to suture her wound in order to stop the bleeding.
Then, one day, not long after I got her off
her beloved oatmeal and low fat diet, her blood coagulation problem had gone for
good...
So don't tell me I didn't warn you? If you
wish to see your grandkids getting married, stay current on your A, D, E and K..
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No Free Lunch For Fiber: Fiber‘s
Contribution To Obesity
Increases The Risk Of Heart Disease
Besides all the other goodies, fiber is
broadly promoted as a weight loss aid. In fact, the complete opposite is true:
First, fiber expands your stomach's capacity,
and makes it much harder to fill yourself to the point of satiety;
Second, fiber extends the time it takes you to
digest carbohydrates, which, in turn stimulates longer insulin secretion, and
causes low blood sugar;
Third, fiber interferes with the digestion of
protein in your stomach, which, in turn, causes hunger pains.
These three factors - a cavernous, distended
stomach, low-blood sugar, and hunger pains are the primary drivers of the
ravenous, round-the-clock appetite, and ensuing weight gain. But that's only
half-the-truth. The other half is fiber's considerable caloric content. You've
probably heard the oft-repeated statement that fiber has "zero net carbs,"
meaning it's a calorie-free, guilt-free product, just like on this web page:
— Question: Do Metamucil Capsules have zero net carbs?
— Answer: Yes, because they are made up of 100% natural fiber.
Dietary fiber is not absorbed by the human body and is not converted into blood
sugar.
Actually, this is a well-practiced lie.
According to the Dietary Reference Intakes
manual - the nutritional bible from the National Academies Press that no
legitimate dietitian or nutritionist goes without a copy of - fiber provides
digestible calories just like any other food:
"Current data
indicate that the [energy] yield [of fiber] is in the range of 1.5 to 2.5"
calories per gram of consumed fiber. [link] If you aren't starving - and how can you be
when your day starts with three servings of oatmeal - your liver turns these
extra calories from fiber into body fat.
Granted, a few grams of fat there, a few
grams here, may not seem like a big deal. But, still, if you are consuming
thirty to forty grams of fiber daily in addition to all other carbs, eventually
it all adds up to extra body fat, prediabetes, and, finally, diabetes.
I don't have to tell you again and again
that that a free lunch exists only in deceptive advertising, and that nothing
brings on heart disease with as much vengeance as these three omnipresent
conditions.
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Fiber's Epitaph: If it sounds too good
to be true,
it means some one is peddling you junk
Junk food, junk science - it's all the same.
Take any junk, repackage it into health food, legitimize it with junk science,
mark it up to make a killing, sell it to unsuspecting health-concerned
customers, laugh all the way to the bank, and let someone else clean up the
mess?
This means we are ready to summarize our
findings:
First, as any cardiologist will tell you,
cholesterol-lowering drugs claim to reduce the risk of heart attack only by
about 30%? To accomplish even this partial reduction of risk requires
the lowering of total cholesterol by twenty, thirty, or more percent, all the
way down to two hundred, not just a statistically-insignificant 1.7%, or just five milligram per deciliter as fiber does.
Second, low-fat diets recommended for
cholesterol reduction with fiber actually increase your risk of heart disease
because they reduce the protective properties of HDL cholesterol.
Third, fiber from food or supplements without a
restrictive low-fat diet has zero affect on your level of cholesterol. As the
American Heart Association noted, “A fiber supplement added to a diet
otherwise high in saturated fat and cholesterol provides dubious
cardiovascular advantages.” [link]
Fourth, natural fiber in fruits, vegetables,
and cereals is always accompanied by dietary carbohydrates, usually five to ten
times as many. If you attempt to consume the recommended thirty five grams of
natural fiber daily, you will ingest alongside between one hundred and fifty to
three hundred grams of extra carbohydrates.
Fifth, excess carbohydrates in a fiber-rich
diet are the primary cause of metabolic syndrome, obesity, prediabetes, and
diabetes. All four conditions are known as the major causes of heart disease.
Sixth, natural and supplemental fiber reduces
the absorption of essential fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, and minerals,
such as iron, calcium and magnesium. These vitamins and minerals regulate blood,
heart, and lung functions, and their deficiencies may cause death long before
heart disease.
Finally, seventh, I hope you noticed that the
actual effect of fiber on heart disease was never studied. All this talk about
fiber's benefits for the heart is simply marketing and money-making ploy made
from fiber's non-existent "ability" to lower cholesterol in connection with a
low-fat, low-cholesterol diet that lowers it anyway without any fiber?
All of these conclusions sum up to one sad
result: Anyone hoping that the soluble fiber in oats or psyllium will protect
their heart, extend their life, and enhance their health is very much mistaken
because, in reality, this fiber is doing the complete opposite.
I hope this isn't you!
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Part 3. One Last Question
Mr. Monastyrsky, so what can I do to lower my cholesterol and
reduce my risk of heart disease?
Well, a complete answer to this question
will require a season-long mini-series, and, then, some? So lets be practical,
and concentrate on the fiber-related aspects of this quagmire:
First, visit FiberMenace.com/heart web
page to explore the background information I relied upon while preparing this
investigative report. Use this information to rebuff the intense pressure to
rely on fiber emanating from your physicians, partners, parents, and peers.
Second, forward this report to your doctors,
nutritionists, and dietitians. A great deal of intentional disinformation about
fiber and heart disease is specifically targeted at medical professionals
because of their considerable sway with patients and the general public. I don't
need to tell you that bad medical advice is even more dangerous than the heart
disease itself, and I know of only one reliable antidote -- true facts, plain
and simple.
Third, fiber is bad for healthy adults, but
it's absolutely devastating for kids and murderous for less than well seniors.
In my forensic research I identified fiber as a primary cause of autism and
juvenile diabetes. You can learn more about fiber's dirty hand in the raging
epidemics of juvenile diabetes and autism from the
Fiber: Wonder Food or
Wrecking Ball? page on my web site.
Fourth, drop from your diet all food and
supplements with processed fiber, particularly fiber-fortified cereals and
laxatives? This will have an immediate and positive effect on your heart and
overall health, because you'll improve the assimilation of essential fatty
acids, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and microelements, including those I
mentioned earlier in this report. And, by the way, I am not against natural
fiber in fresh fruits and veggies. In moderation, it is perfectly acceptable for
healthy, normal weight children and adults. Again, the key words are: healthy,
normal weight, and moderation. If anyone tells you, that my advice is extreme,
it's a lie...
Fifth, reduce carbohydrates in your diet to
under 6 oz or 180 grams? This will quickly normalize your levels of blood sugar,
insulin, and triglycerides. In turn, this will reduce your blood pressure,
improve your circulation, and decrease your heart's, lungs', and kidneys'
workload. You will also stop gaining weight because, on average, carbs above 6
oz exceed your daily energy needs, and are turned into body fat?
Six, while reducing fiber and carbs, you may
experience constipation and low-blood sugar. These two problems are well
familiar to anyone who failed the Atkins-style diets. I explain how to —
overcome these side effects in the
Atkins Goes To South Beach chapter of Fiber
Menace. To wean yourself off fiber dependence, read the
Overcoming Fiber
Dependence essay. Both are free to read on my web site.
Seventh, strive not to gain any more weight,
because the more weight you have to carry around, the more wear-and-tear is
placed on your heart, lungs, and kidneys. Interestingly, once you learn to
attain metabolic balance by getting rid of fiber and reducing carbohydrates, you
may start losing weight naturally.
Passport pictures don't lie: this is me on
high-fiber vegetarian diet around 180 lb at age forty two. Today, at fifty four,
I am thirty pounds lighter. If I could do it, so can you!
Author's note: I don't look as goofy on video as in this
picture. Alas, it was the best frame with my lips closed that I could extract. As you can see, the difference between September
2008 (size 32, two months shy of 54) and August of 1997 (size 42, age 42) is absolutely striking.
Eight, as you age, your cholesterol goes up
naturally, and reaches around 280 mg per deciliter for 95th percentile of
healthy people by the time they reach fifty? In essence, if you believe the Big
Pharma propaganda about cholesterol's role in heart disease, all healthy
middle-aged adults must take statins.
That brings huge profits to them, but very little health to you. According to
all of the available clinical research in support of statins, they reduce the
relative risk of heart attack by less than 3% compared to a sugar pill. But at
the same time, they endanger your life so much, you must take a precautionary
blood test every three months to prevent liver failure.
Author's note: Statins claim ~30% risk reduction of heart attacks. This deception is based on comparing the meaningless absolute outcomes of cherry-picked clinical studies paid
for by Big Pharma instead of the true and objective relative results. More
on this coming soon. Please register to get
notified.
The second most prominent side effect of statins is called fibromyalgia. It
damages muscle tissue, including, of course, heart muscle. Lo and behold, around
300,000 Americans die annually from a sudden cardiac arrest, many of them were
taking statins. Considering the heart's anatomy and physiology, guess what
condition was behind most of those sudden deaths?
Author's note: Fibromyalgia is an early warning sign of rhabdomyolysis — the breakdown of muscle fibers resulting in the release of myoglobin into the
bloodstream. The outcome is usually lethal.
So ask yourself - does it make any sense to play Russian roulette with liver
failure or cardiac arrest for an illusory chance of reducing atherosclerosis by
a percent or two?
Ninth, along with fiber came another health
threat - overconsumption of water, because without glasses and glasses of water,
supplemental fiber may obstruct your esophagus or get stuck inside your stomach
and intestines. Unfortunately, excess water also leaches out essential minerals
from your bones just as hard as fiber prevents them from assimilating. This
double jeopardy is described in the Water Damage chapter of Fiber
Menace.
Tenth, read and recommend my book and its
companion web site FiberMenace.com. Both contain a great deal of additional
information about other perils of dietary fiber, including its role in
constipation, hemorrhoids, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticular disease,
ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease, colon cancer, and fifty plus other
disorders.
Eleventh, please embed
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blog, web site, or social network page, and e-mail the link to this report to
the people you love and respect. There isn't a greater way to show you affection
and respect, than to share with them this life- and health-saving information.
Finally,
register your e-mail on my web site,
so I can let you know about the releases of my new investigative reports. I
promise you that they will be as shocking, informative, and essential for your
health and longevity as this one!
Again, thank you for watching!
Take good care of yourself!
God bless you and your family!
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<embed src="http://blip.tv/play/AczWM4n9Nw"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640"
height="390" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true">
</embed>
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Alternatively,
you can use the Syndicate Show command
from the
show's page on Blip.tv (in the upper right hand corner). This method
will allow you to
select other embedding options.
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