How animal products lead to Heart Disease by thelastsage

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How animal products lead to Heart Disease
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Hello Steemians and Welcome

I would like to start this off by saying that I DO NOT consider this to be a healthy plate. The most prominent thing pictured is a chicken breast and yet this comes directly from the CDC's website under Heart Healthy diet.

So why does the CDC promote the consumption of animal products? I was born with a heart condition and as a result have had 3 open heart surgeries in my life. While this makes me no expert, I have spent a vast deal of my life intertwined into medicine, particularly cardiology. I do also hold a couple medical degrees but no longer practice, still though I am no where near an expert.

Heart disease related illness is the #1 cause of death in the US and the western diet is wholly to blame for it. Due to the influence that agribusiness has on our funding for scientific testing, most studies that are conducted are biased towards helping out the people who payed the bills. Now this should come as no surprise to anyone who has ever payed attention to how things work in our world. Big agribusiness pays for research, studies, publications, and of course lobbies heavily to keep all their nasty secrets drowned out of mainstream media.

Over the past few years it has become obvious to me that "we" as a people are ignorant to most of the things in our lives. It is not really our fault as Social Psychology has seen to it that we are easily influenced and controlled by mass media. Yet we are solely our one and only advocate. If we do not look at our health as our own responsibility and rely on someone else (aka Our MD), we will all be continuously caught up in this scheme we call western medicine.

So what is a person to do? My suggestion is that if you are having health problems do an overall evaluation of your lifestyle. Most all of our health problems stem from inactivity and diet. I am a promoter of a whole food plant based diet. Why you might ask? Because that is what research shows us. There is a plethora of disinformation out there and one must sift through it to find some truths. By doing this, patterns will start to form and a person can start to see through the veil of bullshit that has been continuously tightened over our eyes. Advocate for yourself, if you don't, no one will.

So what really causes heart disease? I will give you a brief overview. If you wish to know more about health and lifestyle please leave your comments and I will address them. When we intake animal products (meat, dairy) and oils the fats begin to cause "damage" to the endothelial cells which make up the lining of our circulatory system (veins and arteries). The damage to the endothelial tissue causes and inflammatory response and decreases the endothelial cells ability to produce nitric oxide. Here is where things really become interesting. Without the nitric oxide the blood vessels loose their ability to dilate and ease blood flow. Nitric oxide also works as a lubricant on the endothelial cells helping to prevent fat deposits on the walls of our arteries. So you have eaten a big old chicken breast and now you have a mass of saturated fats circulating inside tiny vessels that are already constricted, inflamed, and damaged from the heart healthy breakfast you had containing eggs and milk. Now the blood is getting harder to move through the circulatory system which creates back pressure against your hearts ventricles causing the muscle to thicken. So isn't building muscle a good thing? Not in the case of your heart as thickening of the heart muscle also goes by another name; Congestive Heart Failure.

If you yourself or someone you know is suffering from heart disease, I emplore you to school yourself on how the western diet is not just related to, but is the cause of this very disease.

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Peace,
The Last Sage
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@christking ·
looks delicious , i upvoted , I hope you will do it back
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@thelastsage ·
Thanks for the support! You have a new follower!
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@christking ·
thank you so much
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