(Never mind that as a surgeon and the editor of a prestigious journal of
cardiology, he could be expected to be familiar with medical research..).
'What is atherosclerosis?
Atherosclerosis refers to the build up of plaque in the walls of
the arteries leading to a reduction in the calibre of the vessel.
The narrowing does not occur suddenly but builds up over
several years where cholesterol, fat and the smooth muscle
cells lining the blood vessels have been transformed into a
thickened, and sometimes calcified, mass.
The result is that the arteries become constricted, their elasticity
disappears and the volume of blood able to travel through them
at any given time is reduced.
..'
http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/diseases/facts/atherosclerosis.htm
Read on, and be sure to look at the pretty pictures at link.
'Heart Disease Information
Dr. Michael Klaper graduated from the University of Illinois
College of Medicine in Chicago in 1972. He Served his medical
internship at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia,
Canada and took under took additional training in surgery,
anesthesiology, orthopedics and obstetrics at the University of
California Hospitals in San Francisco. Below is an excerpt of
an article on atherosclerosis by Dr. Klaper:
"My nutritional awakening began when I was on the cardiovascular
anesthesia service, and that's the service that deals with people's
hearts and blood vessels. And one evening I was making rounds
to see a patient who was scheduled for a four-vessel coronary
by-pass several days hence and the man had been out on a
day-pass with his family before surgery, quite a common practice.
He had returned to the hospital rather late and the nurse notified
me that there were several blood tests that were missing off his
chart that we needed to repeat and so she asked if I would
draw blood on the man, which I happily did. And I drew some
of his blood into a glass tube and I brought it to the nurse's
station and I let it sit there while I got busy with some work in
the ward and an hour and a half latter I went back to the nurse's
station to take the blood tube down to the laboratory, and what
I saw in the blood tube gave me a rude awakening.
When you draw blood into a glass tube and allow it to sit there
for a couple of hours, it separates out into two parts.
Here is normal blood on the left and you see the red clot on the
bottom and the clear liquid serum has risen up to the top. The
serum should be transparent, you should be able to see through
normal serum. However, the blood in my patient's tube looked
very different. The serum that was floating on top of his clot was
thick and greasy white, it looked like ivory glue when I shook
the tube, the serum stuck to the sides of the tube. I went back
into the room. I said, "Sir, before you came back to the hospital
tonight, did you stop off anywhere from dinner?" He said, "Yes"
I said, "Where?" and he said he had stopped at his local gourmet
restaurant and he had his usual fare, and I said, "What did you
have?"
"Well I had a double-bacon steerburger' with extra cheese and
a milkshake, " a common offering at such institutions. And at
that point when he said that, I realized what I was looking at in
his blood tube. What was all the floating on top of his blood tube,
what was floating on top of his blood tube was all the beef-fat in
the burger, it was all the butterfat in the cheese, it was the
butterfat in the ice-cream, it was the egg yoke fat that was in the
mayonnaise that was slathered on the bun. All the fat that this
man had eaten had oozed out into his bloodstream and turned
his blood fatty. This is a well known phenomenon, it is called
lipima and it happens every time you eat a fatty meal, a wave
of fat goes through your bloodstream. Not everybody shows
it this optically densely, but everyone has a wave of fat going
through their bloodstream after a fatty meal, how can it be any
other way?"
..
I went back to my patient and discussed a bit about his dinner,
but there was not much to say because the fat was already in
his blood. What was especially disturbing to me however, was
several days later we took him down to the operating room.
I gave the man a thousand micrograms of pheontonel and put
him to sleep, and the surgeon opened up his chest and opened
up his coronary arteries, and from this man's coronary arteries
he began pulling yellow, greasy, waxy, fatty deposits that look
like this:
[o]
What you are looking at is the plug of fat that built up in a
man's right coronary artery. The artery was a tube coming
out at you from the screen. The artery wall has been cut
away and you are looking at the plug of fat that built up.
The fat started out at the outer edges of the artery wall and
as the months and years go by of these repeated tides of fat
flowing through the arteries, the fat starts building up on the
inside of the arteries like scale builds up in the inside of a
hot water pipe. And as the months and years went by the
fat crowded in and crowded in on his blood flow channel
till finally only the small dark area was left for the blood to
flow through and when a clot formed here it stopped the
blood flow the his heart, stopped his heart and bought him
a ticket to the autopsy table. This is the number one cause
of death in western societies. In North America every thirty
seconds someone grabs their chest and falls over with a
heart attack because this greasy material is clogging up
arteries to their heart. This disease is called atherosclerosis,
the number one cause of death and disease in western societies.
[ ] Saturated fat and cholesterol being removed
from a coronary artery in a patient's heart
This material is quite remarkable. When you send it down
to the pathologist and you ask him to do a chemical
analysis the report always comes back the same, saturated
fat and cholesterol, essentially it's animal fat. The report
from the pathologist never, ever, ever contains the words
remnants of broccoli, rice and tofu. The good news is this
stuff will melt away. If you clean up your diet and start
taking a walk everyday, and get rid of some of the stress
that builds up within you, this is a reversible disease and
will melt away.
...'
http://www.newveg.av.org/optimum.htm
