As serious as a heart attack...

A very close friend today told me that her father had just suffered a heart attack, I was hoping to wait and talk about arterial health a little later on in my blog but here we are with an example all to close to home. Her father has had triple by-pass surgery in the past and now is on to having a second stent. After having been through Dr. McDougall's 10 day live-in program and sitting through his lectures I am confident that diet is the only "cure" available to us that really works, you can heal, your body knows how to heal itself. I'm certainly not an expert but I wish I had known this years ago, I would have taken a huge loan and sent my entire family to see Dr. McDougall. Here is what he has to say about the subject. I have taken this directly from Dr. McDougall's website as I couldn't find a better way to say what he has here, "An expected part of aging in Western societies is to have the arteries feeding your heart, brain, legs, and penis close down by atherosclerosis. Yet these problems are almost never found in populations of people who follow a diet low in animal-derived and processed foods, such as those living in rural Asia, Africa, and Central and South America. The matter that clogs the arteries is living tissue, (not concrete) and therefore, can heal given the right environment. To clean up your arteries (reverse atherosclerosis), a very low-fat, no-cholesterol diet must be followed strictly. Immediate benefits, such as relief of chest pains (angina) and tolerance for more exercise, are seen within days. Hearth surgery fails to prolong life in the vast majority of people and is fraught with serious side effects, including permanent brain damage - don't go this route unless you have no other choice."