Philmo
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As bodybuilders some of us take sport technology drugs as Flex wheeler would say lol so I thought this would be a good read cause as we know there is some relation between steroids and cholesterol and for serious users some that blast and cruse for years we want to stay healthy as possible. I know i can get cut and bulk on whatever i want with great results as long as i hit my protein and calories manipulate cabs a lil (macro diet) and thats it i dont HAVE to eat healthy to look good. A lot of bodybuilders eat like shit often and a lot of them have good genetics so they can but obviously its not healthy...Anyways I figure I am going to be on gear for a while I want to be huge so i need to make sure i counter it by eating healthy most of the time. Coconut oils saturated fat is awesome 50 percent of the fat content in coconut oil is a fat rarely found in nature called lauric acid.
Your body converts lauric acid into monolaurin, which has anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-protozoa properties.http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/22/coconut-oil-and-saturated-fats-can-make-you-healthy.aspx#_edn9 Monolaurin is a monoglyceride that can actually destroy lipid coated viruses such as:
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and heart health is one of the mostconfusing topics in the nutrition realm. It’s also one that’s especially close to my heart since my own father underwent unexpected major heart surgery not so long ago. And because I was first prescribed a statin drug when I was 20 years young. I remember all too well the feelings of anxiety, helplessness and confusion — having no clue what to do to help my father or myself. At the time, I was studying to become a dietitian (you’d think that would have at least given me a heads up)! After my years of research and experience, I remain confident in my decision to never take that statin drug. In fact, I enjoy a healthy balanced diet which includes eggs in butter every morning (which is shunned by heart health advocates)…all the while not worrying that I’m harming my heart, and being confident knowing I’m protecting it. (My father now eats the same breakfast as me and is doing well!)
You might still be scratching your head at the very thought of including saturated fats like butter and cholesterol-filled egg yolks to protect your heart. You’re not alone in feeling this way. I was confused too. There are a lot of misconceptions, confusion and flat out bad information out there on this topic of heart disease and cholesterol. For years, doctors and dietitians have prescribed a low fat, low cholesterol diet for heart health and coincidentally (or not!), the prevalence of type two diabetes, obesity, cancer and yes, heart disease have skyrocketed! The good news is that the science is finally being publicized that saturated fat and dietary cholesterol are not linked to heart disease, there was no evidence to support the low-fat message in the first place and that “sound nutritional knowledge was distinctly lacking” in generating these guidelines. A group from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology says there is simply not enough evidence to recommend limiting cholesterol in diets.
We know the key to heart health is to keep internal inflammation at bay by limiting consumption of sugar, grains, processed carbohydrates and refined oils and eating MORE healthy fats, exercising, managing stress and including quality, heart protective supplements. The fact of the matter is that cholesterol does NOT cause heart disease! Unfortunately, doctors receive very limited education on the nutrition side of health. Because of this, they may sing praises for statin drugs and low-fat diets. At your next appointment, go armed with the key points I’m about to share with you here. Let’s dive in and cover 7 more things your doctor didn’t tell you about heart health.
7 Things Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You About Heart Health:
Your body converts lauric acid into monolaurin, which has anti-viral, anti-bacterial, and anti-protozoa properties.http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/22/coconut-oil-and-saturated-fats-can-make-you-healthy.aspx#_edn9 Monolaurin is a monoglyceride that can actually destroy lipid coated viruses such as:
- HIV, herpes
- Measles
- Influenza virus
- Various pathogenic bacteria
- Protozoa such as giardia lamblia you ....can read more here http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/10/22/coconut-oil-and-saturated-fats-can-make-you-healthy.aspx
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States and heart health is one of the mostconfusing topics in the nutrition realm. It’s also one that’s especially close to my heart since my own father underwent unexpected major heart surgery not so long ago. And because I was first prescribed a statin drug when I was 20 years young. I remember all too well the feelings of anxiety, helplessness and confusion — having no clue what to do to help my father or myself. At the time, I was studying to become a dietitian (you’d think that would have at least given me a heads up)! After my years of research and experience, I remain confident in my decision to never take that statin drug. In fact, I enjoy a healthy balanced diet which includes eggs in butter every morning (which is shunned by heart health advocates)…all the while not worrying that I’m harming my heart, and being confident knowing I’m protecting it. (My father now eats the same breakfast as me and is doing well!)
You might still be scratching your head at the very thought of including saturated fats like butter and cholesterol-filled egg yolks to protect your heart. You’re not alone in feeling this way. I was confused too. There are a lot of misconceptions, confusion and flat out bad information out there on this topic of heart disease and cholesterol. For years, doctors and dietitians have prescribed a low fat, low cholesterol diet for heart health and coincidentally (or not!), the prevalence of type two diabetes, obesity, cancer and yes, heart disease have skyrocketed! The good news is that the science is finally being publicized that saturated fat and dietary cholesterol are not linked to heart disease, there was no evidence to support the low-fat message in the first place and that “sound nutritional knowledge was distinctly lacking” in generating these guidelines. A group from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology says there is simply not enough evidence to recommend limiting cholesterol in diets.
We know the key to heart health is to keep internal inflammation at bay by limiting consumption of sugar, grains, processed carbohydrates and refined oils and eating MORE healthy fats, exercising, managing stress and including quality, heart protective supplements. The fact of the matter is that cholesterol does NOT cause heart disease! Unfortunately, doctors receive very limited education on the nutrition side of health. Because of this, they may sing praises for statin drugs and low-fat diets. At your next appointment, go armed with the key points I’m about to share with you here. Let’s dive in and cover 7 more things your doctor didn’t tell you about heart health.
7 Things Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You About Heart Health:
- Your total cholesterol number means squat. Seriously. Toss it out the window with the margarine, whole grain bread and egg whites (actually, hold on to those, just eat the yolks too!). What really matters is the breakdown of your total cholesterol number (covered in this post). Did you know that nearly half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal cholesterol levels? Only half of them have high cholesterol! So what’s with all the hype in lowering our cholesterol? What is cholesterol?
- Cholesterol is the hero, not the villain. Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance found in every cell in your body. Elevated cholesterol is a symptom of inflammation, not the cause. So when cholesterol levels increase, it can mean your body is trying to fight inflammation and cholesterol came to the rescue to heal the damage, as a protective mechanism. What’s promoting heart disease is the inflammation, not the cholesterol. Simply reducing cholesterol numbers does not reduce risk of death from heart disease.
- Without cholesterol, you would die. Not only is cholesterol the hero, but you actually need it to survive. It’s so essential that if your body doesn’t get enough of it through the food you’re eating, it will make it! (Alternately, eating enough of it supports your body by giving it a break from having to make as much.) Cholesterol is necessary to make hormones, fix microscopic tears in blood vessels, repair nerves, aid in fat digestion, and more!
- Your high LDL isn’t necessarily bad. We’ve been given an oversimplified and incomplete view of LDL cholesterol, or as it’s commonly referred to as “the bad cholesterol”. LDL cholesterol is made up of two different particle sizes: big fluffy type A profile particles (these are healthy and healing!) and small dense, type B particles (these are harmful and inflammatory). Your LDL cholesterol number isn’t much help without knowing the whole makeup of the LDL and therefore, how much of it is the harmful kind. Labeling all LDL as bad and driving that total LDL number to the ground isn’t the simple solution for heart health that we’ve been told. You can find out the full breakdown of your LDL by getting a NMR Lipoprofile test. If you’re total LDL number is considered “high,” many doctors will firmly suggest a drug without ever running this test and finding out your LDL particle size.
- Statin drugs are pretty much a scam. By far one of the best selling drugs in the United States, statin drugs are given out like candy as a quick fix to lower cholesterol. Currently, the only group that has been shown to benefit from taking a statin drug is middle aged men who already have heart disease. They’ve never been shown to be effective in people without heart disease. Besides being much less effective than we’ve been led to believe, statins have many terrible side effects that drug manufacturers do their best to keep hidden, including muscle pain, fatigue, weakness, memory and cognition problems and depleting the body of CoQ10, one of the most important nutrients for the heart. All that said, even if statins do work, it has very little to do with their cholesterol-lowering ability and more to do with the fact that http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth6.htm…and we can reduce inflammation with food, key supplements and lifestyle changes—all of which don’t include side effects! Unless of course you count more energy, weight loss, pain management, and all around better health a side effect! That’s the exciting part of the story.
- Butter and eggs are good for your heart. Despite what we’ve been told for five decades, saturated fat does not increase your risk for heart disease, as shown in a thorough review article compiling data from decades of studies and a meta-analysis of data from 72 studies involving 600,000 participants in 18 countries and a systematic review and meta-analysis by the American College of Physicians. Healthy fats, like butter and egg yolks (and coconut oil, olive oil, nuts, seeds and avocado) help reduce inflammation which in turn, protects your heart. Your heart actually needs saturated fat.
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Your bread and pasta addiction are likely promoting heart disease. And so is your morning bowl of oatmeal. Oh, and your glass of “heart healthy” orange juice. It’s hard to hear, I know, especially when whole grains have been pushedon us as a heart healthy food for years! The truth is that heart disease is a sugar disease. All carbohydrates turn into sugar in your body. Think of carbs and sugar as little pieces of glass that are cutting up your vessels and causing inflammation. It would make sense as to why pouring less shards of glass into your body will be beneficial for your heart then, right? Replace inflammatory bread and pasta with nutrient dense veggies and fruits. Ditching processed grains that contain anti-nutrients and replacing them with real food carbohydrates will protect your heart!
