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A quick hint: sugar is a far greater danger to your heart than fat ever was.
Insulin resistance is what will increase your blood pressure. No, salt isn’t the bad guy either, in fact,
salt (colored sea salt) is also essential for a normal and healthy functioning human body.
Insulin speaks to your kidneys, saying, ‘Hold onto salt’. Even though they don’t want to; insulin is a
storage hormone. And the body needs to maintain a tight range of sodium. Water follows sodium.
More water in the system means more blood volume, more blood volume means higher blood
pressure. So, when the doc tells you to cut sodium, what they are really saying is that they don’t
realize the true root cause, which is high levels of insulin, which can be regulated to a great degree by
your intake of processed carbs.
Interesting.
Another side note, insulin makes it damn near impossible to lose fat, essentially locking or trapping the
triglycerides in the fat cell. This is all tied together: being overweight, heart disease, insulin resistance
and type 2 diabtetes…
It is elevated insulin, which comes from your diet, that increases triglycerides, raises blood pressure
and lowers HDL-cholesterol, not fat in your diet!!
Fat will raise the LDL-A cholesterol, the big fluffy particles, that are absolutely harmless.
High triglycerides will lead to LDL-B particles, which are the tiny ‘bee-bee’ pellet particles that can
penetrate the arterial walls and start to gum up. While I am on this side rant, fatty liver, which used to
be seen mainly is alcoholics, is becoming more and more common and yes, it can be directly traced
back to insulin spikes from the diet.
When you begin to store fat in the liver, you have become insulin resistant and are not far off from
diabetes. And yes, I hope that does scare the pants off of you if you have fatty liver. It’s time to be a
big boy and take your health back!
Ok, now there is a certain type of carb that will lead to fat accumulation in the liver, and that is,
fructose. More specifically, high fructose corn syrup, which is found in damn near all processed carb
sources.
Omega 6 fats, those that are found in vegetable oils, cause inflammation. Thus, low fat diets work not
because they reduce saturated fat but because they reduce omega-6 fats.
The ideal ratio of omega 6 to omega 3 fat in the diet to keep inflammation in check is between 1:1 and
4:1. All well and good until you consider that the typical Western diet ranges from 15:1 to 20:1!!!
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