Cholesterol is NOT the enemy: It's inflammation that's making you fat and killing you slowly

Cholesterol is NOT the enemy: It's inflammation that's making you fat and killing you slowly


(NaturalNews) The collective psyche of American society is long overdue
for a major paradigm shift in its understanding of fats, inflammation,
cholesterol, and the true cause of most chronic illnesses. Even many
physicians, who should know better, still argue that cholesterol is evil
and that sticking to a low-fat diet is good for health. But the fact of
the matter is that avoiding fats is toxic to your health, and consuming
the many food additives that commonly replace them - these include
synthetic trans fats, refined sugars, and processed grains - are a
primary cause of disease-causing inflammation.

It all makes sense
if you just stop and consider the native role cholesterol plays in
protecting arteries against lesions and other damage. Rather than being
the cause of plaque buildup in the circulatory system, cholesterol is
actually the healing agent the body sends to sites that have been
damaged by inflammation. In other words, if you have too much
cholesterol buildup in your arteries, your real problem is too much
inflammation rather than too much cholesterol, and a whole different
mitigatory approach is required to address the problem.

"It's the inflammation in the vessels that starts the lesion," says Dr. Beverly Teter, a lipid biochemist from the University of Maryland who has been researching fats and their affect on the human body for many years, as quoted by CBN.com.
"The body then sends the cholesterol like a scab to cover over it to
protect the blood system and the vessel wall from further damage."

This
runs completely contrary to the prevailing medical dogma, which still
maintains that saturated fat and cholesterol are silent killers that can
lead to heart disease,
diabetes and other forms of chronic illness. As a result, millions of
Americans have been duped into avoiding these necessary nutrients to
their own demise, while they instead gorge on unhealthy vegetable oils,
trans fats, sugars, grains, and phony low-fat junk foods.

"When
choosing which fats to eat, pick the ones that are high in omega-3 fats
and also choose natural saturated fats," advises Lorie Johnson from CBN.com. "On the other hand, stay away from the fats that lead to inflammation,
such as trans fats and omega-6 fats," she adds, noting that most of the
oils used in processed food are unhealthy vegetable oils posing as
"nutritious."

Saturated fat and cholesterol necessary for proper cellular function, brain health

What
few people today realize is that their bodies actually require both
saturated fat and cholesterol for proper metabolism, brain health,
hormone balance and cellular homeostasis. Without these two important
nutritional components, a cascade of health problems can ensue,
including debilitating brain conditions like Alzheimer's and
Parkinson's. This is especially true for people who take toxic statin
drugs to artificially lower their cholesterol levels.

"People with high cholesterol
live the longest," says Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D. "Consider the
finding of Dr. Harlan Krumholz of the Department of Cardiovascular
Medicine at Yale University, who reported in 1994 that old people
with low cholesterol died twice as often from a heart attack as did old
people with high cholesterol."

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