SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2015
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J OEL F UHRMAN , MD
What women should know about heart disease
In recent years, the impact of
heart disease on women has
gained increasing attention.
Though it is often thought to
affect men disproportionately,
heart disease kills more women
than men. Heart disease is
responsible for 1-in-3 deaths of
American women each year,
killing more women than all
cancers combined.
The standard American diet,
full of white flour, sugars, oils
and animal products, promotes
heart disease; as a result, taking
medications for elevated cho-
lesterol and blood pressure has
become nearly ubiquitous, and
common for heart attacks and
strokes to occur.
Health authorities often
advise women to know the
symptoms that may be charac-
teristic of a heart attack, and
they make lenient, ineffective
dietary recommendations about
reducing fat intake. This does
not work, only a Nutritarian
diet, rich in protective plant
foods can reverse this epidemic
and protect your life.
Women can take control of
their cardiovascular health;
they can become so healthy
that a heart attack is almost
impossible. A growing body of
scientific literature shows that
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bers who chose not to run for another term during the
June 10 board meeting. Deena Mitchell served eight
years, Chad Clements served four years and Michelle
Rose (not pictured) served five years.
heart disease is easily and
almost completely preventable
(and reversible) by following
an eating style rich in plant pro-
duce and dramatically lower in
processed foods and animal
products.
My 25 years in clinical prac-
tice is a testament to these prin-
ciples. I have treated advanced
heart disease for nearly a quar-
ter century, and all my early
adapters are still thriving into
their 80s and 90s without expe-
riencing heart disease again or
requiring medications anymore
for hypertension or high cho-
lesterol.
When you learn how to take
care your heart with superior
nutrition, you automatically
take steps that will help to pre-
vent diabetes, cancer, osteo-
porosis and other diseases, and
maintain youthful energy, posi-
tive emotional outlook and
enthusiasm for life.
It protects your brain, not
just your heart.
The most important strategy
for taking care of your heart is
to eat your G-BOMBS daily:
greens, beans, onions, mush-
rooms, berries and seeds.
Natural plant foods have
numerous
cardioprotective
effects. For example, greens
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turn on the body’s natural
detoxification mechanisms and
protect blood vessels against
inflammatory processes that
lead to atherosclerotic plaque
buildup.
Higher consumption of
fiber-rich vegetables, fruits and
beans helps to keep blood pres-
sure in the favorable range.
Beans, nuts and seeds have
unique cholesterol-lowering
capabilities. Berries and the
flavonoids they contain have a
blood pressure-lowering effect,
plus berries and pomegranate
have potent antioxidant and
anti-inflammatory effects that
protect against the develop-
ment of heart disease.
Getting frequent exercise
and maintaining a healthy
weight are of course also
important, as is minimizing
added salt, alcohol and caf-
feine.
Radical fat exclusion or a
completely vegan diet is not
the foundational principle here.
The foundational principle is
micronutrient adequacy and
nutritional excellence.
An extremely low-fat diet is
not the optimal method to
address this issue, since includ-
ing nuts and seeds in the diet
contributes to cardiovascular
health in several different ways
including cholesterol-lowering,
arterial function, blood glucose
lowering, and weight mainte-
nance.
Furthermore, the combina-
tion of delicious dressings and
dips made from nuts and seeds
with overall healthful diet and
lifestyle habits, not only leads
to more favorable outcomes,
but also was demonstrated to
add almost a decade of lifespan
in the most thorough study
investigating this issue.
Another important message I
have for women: Don’t be
fooled by high-protein weight
loss schemes that emphasize
animal products and/or limit
fresh fruit.
High-protein diets can gen-
erate ketosis, which predispos-
es one to electrolyte imbal-
ances and cardiac arrhythmias
that could lead to sudden car-
diac death. High-protein, low-
carbohydrate diets are associat-
ed with increased risk of car-
diovascular disease and prema-
ture death.
Animal protein also elevates
IGF-1, which is associated with
increased risk of several can-
cers, especially breast cancer as
well as cardiovascular disease.
You can lose weight without
compromising your health; the
most effective eating style for
weight loss is also the healthi-
est way to eat for protection
from cancer and cardiovascular
disease.
When you use lifestyle inter-
ventions instead of drugs to
reduce blood pressure, choles-
terol and other risk factors, you
achieve much greater results
because a high-nutrient diet
doesn’t merely lower blood
pressure and cholesterol, it
floods the cells and tissues with
beneficial phytochemicals and
allows the body’s self-healing
mechanisms to work at their
full capacity to restore health.
My book Eat for Health
guides you easily through the
transition toward a health-pro-
moting Nutritarian diet and can
help you achieve a healthy
weight and a substantial reduc-
tion in heart disease risk.
Dr. Fuhrman is a New York
Times best-selling author and
board certified family physician
specializing in lifestyle and nutri-
tional medicine.
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What is the best part of summer break?
Makenzie York
“.I’ll be coaching my son’s
little league team. In July I will
take some time off and head up
to Washington to see some fam-
ily and catch a Mariners game at
Safeco Field. ”
—S IUSLAW H IGH S CHOOL
A SSISTANT P RINCIPAL
C ORKY F RANKLIN , 45
F LORENCE
“Going to see my grandma in
Swiss Home. I’m also going to
Portland with my other grandma
to the Oregon Zoo and we get to
play with chinchillas.”
—I RENA C OOPER , 9
F LORENCE
“We get to go places. This
year we’re going to Hawaii.
We’re going to swim and go to
the beach.”
—A DDISON M C N EILL , 8
WITH DAD A ARON M C N EILL
F LORENCE
“I’m going to spend a lot of
time with family and do as much
camping and traveling through
Oregon with my family as we
can.”
—S IUSLAW E LEMENTARY
P RINCIPAL
M IKE H ARKLERODE , 41
F LORENCE
Siuslaw
Middle School
Born:
February 8, 2001
Parents:
Charlie & Wendy
York
Grandparents:
Val & Linda Hammer
Roger & Jan York
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