Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) – WHO
1st Cause of Death – Coronary Disease
Deposits in the arteries retard the circulation of the blood. The speed and efficiency of the bloodstream have a great effect upon the prolongation of life. It is the bloodstream which provides the entire body with the required nourishment and oxygen before it removes harmful substances for elimination. Slowing of blood circulation, loss of elasticity of blood vessels and disturbances of the machinery which regulate the distribution of blood are among the most important causes of the shortening of life, vigour and health.
In our opinion, there is no physiological principle limiting health or human lifespan. We believe that radiant health and youthfulness is within reach, but it must be earned. This is your life! It is your sacred duty to yourself, Nature and God to learn now and how to keep your body healthy and fit for a long lifetime.
The 1st cause of widows and widowers in the United States is coronary (heart) disease. Remember our discourse of cholesterol and the fact that high cholesterol levels are invitations to heart attacks? Statistics show that cholesterol levels in American men and now women also, increase rapidly between ages 30 and 65. Be on guard! Cholesterol should be tested by all twice a year.
Women before the age of 50 used to be much better protected against degenerative artery disease than men. Today women have almost achieved an unfortunate equality by developing heart attacks and strokes with nearly the same frequency as men. The scientific theory that female sex hormones play an important part in providing protection against the harmful menace of atherosclerosis is apparently true – but not powerful enough to offset the deadly effects of an unhealthy lifestyle! As soon as menopause starts in women, the protection of these sex hormones ceases, they claim, and they become just as susceptible as men to heart attacks and strokes. It’s important; women of all ages should not neglect their heart health.
Unhealthy Lifestyle Living is Slow Suicide
Just because you are feeling fine does not mean that you can afford the risk of continuing to choke your bloodstream with the high cholesterol diet typical of most people in our modern civilization. Bacon and eggs, meat and potatoes, pies and cakes, bread with butter or margarine, milk and ice cream, all the rich foods that most men and women crave are slow poisons to your heart and circulatory system. Remember that these poisons work silently and insidiously. Their effect may not become evident until you suddenly have a heart attack. Always remember the words of Dr Paul D. White: – that death from a heart attack is not sudden it’s been building up for years!
Your Family’s Life is in Your Hands
We would like to suggest to everyone that you reread. Dr White’s warning and that you take it seriously.
If you want to keep your family alive, work on them to 190 exercises every day as you watch what you feed them and yourself. You may be shortening the lives of your family with too many fattening and highly saturated foods. Their lives are in your hands! You prepare and put the food on the table for your family to eat. You will learn how to keep your family in perfect health. Follow the instructions we provide later and soon you and your family will discover a startling increase in vigour and vitality, with a sense of well-being.
Remember that young people can also die of heart disease! Teach your children how to eat correctly. Give your family more fresh salads, more lightly steamed vegetables, more fresh fruit desserts. Eliminate the gravy (it’s loaded with cholesterol). Eliminate dairy products. Enjoy healthier soy, rice and nut milk. Serve delicious herbal teas such as mint, alfalfa, chamomile, lemon balm, and anise seed and banish coffee and the salt shaker from your table.
Enjoy Lighter, Smaller Vegetarian Dinners
It seems to be an American custom for people to eat their biggest meal in the evening. From a standpoint of heart attacks, this is the worst time to eat a big meal . . . especially a meal with a preponderance of fat. It has been definitively established by researchers that the blood is more likely to clot 2 to 8 hours following a meal with a high fat intake. It would, therefore, seem logical to avoid heavy meals – particularly in the evening – to minimize the chances of intravascular clotting. The occurrence of a heart attack after eating a heavy meal has been recognized by doctors for years. Just think how often you read or hear about a man in his prime dying of a heart attack during his sleep at night.
Retired people, of course, can regulate their mealtimes easily. Business people can dine at an earlier hour in the evening and can certainly regulate their diet to promote their health and prolong their lives.
A light healthy vegetarian meal is ideal for evenings. It can begin with a raw combination salad with lemon and olive oil dressing. Follow it with 2 lightly cooked vegetables such as string beans, zucchini, peas, corn on the cob, kale, okra, vegetable chop suey, etc. Several nights a week add a baked potato – but do not drench this potato in fat!
Now we are not telling you that the price you must pay to avoid a heart attack and live a long life is to give up the good flavour. Not at all! As mentioned previously, delicious French dishes, soups, salads, potatoes, veggies, etc. are world famous and among the best heart-healthy recipes. A good French chef rarely uses salt and cooks with very little fat. The secrets of French flavour lie in the use of herbs, garlic, olive oil, onions, green peppers and mushrooms.
I’ve seen sickness and asthma disappear completely in response to major shifts in diet and lifestyles, such as eliminating sugar and meat and switching to a healthier, vegetarian diet. – Dr Andrew Weil, www.drweilselfhealing.com
Prevention is always preferable to the cure!
192 Chinese Recipes Promote Heart Health – America’s Coronary Disease Rate is Ten Times Higher than China!
The Chinese have a low cholesterol, low-fat diet – in sharp contrast to the high cholesterol, high-fat diet found in the United States, Canada and the more prosperous countries of Europe. Pathologists, scientists and medical researchers have produced overwhelming evidence that when blood cholesterol and fats are high, the arteries suffer from a greater degree of atherosclerosis.
Atherosclerosis has always been a “disease of the rich”.
Only those who could afford rich, fatty foods have been the heart attack and stroke victims. The heart and blood vessel degenerative diseases have historically been associated with royalty and wealth. Cholesterol was found in the mummies arteries of the Pharaohs of Egypt, whose diet was far richer than their subjects.
Today we have millions of people in our Western industrialized countries who can easily afford rich foods. You hear and read about the affluent society and its blessings. But this affluence is exacting a high price in atherosclerosis and the nearly epidemic number of heart attacks, strokes and cancers now happening worldwide.
Millions of people living in China and other Asian countries are rarely afflicted with heart disease. Their main dietary item is and has been for centuries, one of the most healthful of all vegetables: the soybean. Soybeans contain a high percentage of unsaturated fatty acids and lecithin, two good preventers of heart disease.
The basic Chinese diet consists of rice and lightly cooked vegetables, with meat used only as an occasional flavouring. When you order chicken or beef chop suey in a Chinese restaurant, you always get a plentiful dish of vegetables such as celery, onions, green bell peppers, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and soy and bean sprouts – flavored by only a very small amount of finely sliced chicken or beef and a dish of rice. No bread and butter are served at an authentic Chinese Restaurant.
You are what you eat, drink, breathe, think, say and do. – Patricia Bragg
