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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015
COCBR
J OEL F UHRMAN , MD
SCHOLARSHIP
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
(SAD), full of white flour, sug-
ars, oils and animal products,
promotes heart disease; as a
result, taking medications for
elevated cholesterol 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
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
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
the practices of aerial spray-
ing on forested areas near
watersheds in the Oregon
Coast Range. The panel will
include residents from local
communities who will pro-
vide a short report on the sta-
tus of air and water quality in
their areas.
Cost for the event is $5 for
students and City Lights
Cinema members, or $7 for
general admission.
Fifty percent of proceeds
will be donated to Beyond
Toxics to help provide these
meetings in rural communi-
ties, and also for a fund to
assist residents of Gold Beach
who were affected by recent
aerial spraying.
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.
COURTESY PHOTO
Eric Stenke (right), chairman of the Central Oregon
Coast Board of Realtors Scholarship Committee
(COCBR), at the 10th annual Lane Community
College Student Scholarship Night, presented Emily
Laing with a scholarship for $1,000. The COCBR
Scholarship is one of three scholarships presented to
local students pursuing their educational goals.
Father’s Day Special
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STEAK
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bacon cheddar mashed potatoes
corn on the cob
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Join Us Sundays at
4:30 p.m.
(doors open at 3:30 pm)
City Lights to feature two
environmental shorts
The short films “Drift: A
Community Seeking Justice”
and “This Is Our Watershed”
will be shown at City Lights
Cinema on Wednesday, June
24, at 6:30 p.m.
University of Oregon stu-
dents from the Environmental
Studies Department collabo-
rated with Beyond Toxics film
director Lisa Arkin to produce
the films, which highlight two
Oregon Coastal communities
hit hard by the effects of aerial
herbicide spraying.
Residents of those commu-
nities who were impacted by
the spraying tell their poignant
stories in these two films.
Following the films, a panel
of three residents will discuss
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