Taking Charge of Your


Cardiometabolic Health


mom or a friend. Oftentimes the death was totally unexpected; one day your friend was going about his or her life and next day they were dead. Or maybe you know someone who had a stroke or survived a heart attack only to be disabled for years afterwards and unable to enjoy life as they once did. And then there are the ravages of diabetes, with the constant blood sugar monitoring, peripheral neuropathy, pos- sible loss of a limb or even blindness from the disease.


W While modern medicine has made


great strides in treating cardiovascular disease, it is still the number one cause of death not only here in the US but in all of the modernized world. But it doesn’t have to be that way. While our aging population and the reduc- tion of deaths due to other causes, such as infection, play a large role in the catapult- ing of heart disease to the top of the listed causes of death, a number of people seem to be able to avoid heart disease, diabetes and stroke altogether. The question may be “What is different about these people?” Is it genetics, luck or something else? Studies of different populations who


have the lowest rate of heart disease and subsequent death point to the “something else.”


So how are you to know if you need to do “something else?” Let’s take a look for a moment at the current medical dogma about heart dis-


e all know of someone who died of a heart attack or stroke. Maybe it was your brother, your


ease. Despite massive evidence about the causes of heart disease, we are stuck in an old model of heart disease being caused primarily by fat consumption. While it is smart to be cautious about the types of fat we eat, since we got fat phobic, the rate of diabetes and heart disease, as well as the rate of obesity has increased dramati- cally. The problem is that, when food manufacturers removed fat from processed


foods, they had to add sugar in order to make the food taste good. Think about it. Over time our consumption of added sugar has increased to approximately 152 pounds of per capita per year several years ago. That means, on average, Americans are eating ½ of sugar per day! The problem with sugar is that our


bodies get overwhelmed by the amount of sugar absorbed into the blood. When


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