I think a few years back they were scratching their heads and saying "cancer and HD are multifactorial".. and despairing often of finding a root cause. The sedentary lifestyle thing, and stress thing were often cited as possible aggravators. (Sedentarianism to coin a frase, is an aggravator in a very special way. The Masai have thick stable plaque, but their arteries are twice our size on average because they walk 20 miles a day.) But paradoxically some people can eat high fat in some populations and not plaque-out like North Americans of many different nationalities do. Sun is one factor. Many of the low heart disease people come from sunny climes. They also come from places near the sea and where they are in hilly regimes. Often they are vegetarians, but in some locales like India some people get high heart disease. (Indians eat a lot of low grade hydrogenated vegetable oils today.) But not all Japanese get low CVD. Some suffer greatly in certain areas. The areas of high salt consumption.
When you do the factor analysis, a technique sadly lacking from the many meta studies of data and populations, you find the commonalities. When you study the biochemical effect of diet, you begin to see the efficacy of substances.
What are some glaring commonalities of low CVD people.
1. hilly territory, near sea
2. physical labour
3. high magnesium, selenium, vitamin and bioflavonoids in diet. (3 to 20 times North American)
4. consumption of self grown garden vegetables in diet.
5. consumption of good lipase and choline, vitamin e.
6. low caloric intake
7. in some case low protein intake
8. high folate intake.
9, tight social co-operative groups.
10. knowledge of the health effects of certain foods.
11. consumption of nuts - walnuts etc..
12. consumption of whole grains only
13. lack of hyrogenated vegetable oils. consumption of monounsaturates (olive oil)
14. high caratenoid intake in some groups.
15. complete lack of insecticide, pesticide, hormones and antibiotics in foods.
16. low salt consumption to zero.
17. high arginine content of foods. meat, nuts, etc..
18. fairly robust B12 content, in meats, fish, etc..
19. low to zero sugar intake.
20. high fermented food intake. bacteria load of foods.
21. no artificial fructose sweeteners or carbonated beverages. this is found in pop and breads throughout G7 countries, and contributes biochemically to obesity by new studies.
22. often high fruit consumption.
Sunshine is not always necessary, as some groups experience little sun, eskimo, for instance. Okinawans get few grains, but all other factors seem operative. Hunza are inland, but their agriculture is primitive. food factors are unknown for them for the most part. Cretans eat many good things, their factors fit, and the walnuts they eat do stabilize and reduce plaque. Cretans have the lowest CVD in Europe. Rocky soil agriculture and meagre diets with rare high meats seems to be correlative in many cultures. The heritage diet of eskimo of practically all see mammal meat (they don't eat much fish) is an anomaly, but the meat is high in bioflavones, magnesium, choline, lipase, PUFA, selenium and vitamin E, and contains little insecticide, hormone or herbicide. No antibiotics.
It appears it is vital to preserve the main antioxidants in the body, selenium and vitamin E. This (E content) is not being, by autopsy, preserved in North Americans. The most probably cause is the known vitamin killers, antibiotics, hormones, pesticides and herbecides found in astronomic quantities in North American meats and vegetables. Organic seems to be the only "way out" to avoid this disastrous situation. Supplementation of Vitamin E and Selenium could be a fall back.
It is quite apparent that selenium is high in populations that have alow stroke rate. The high selenium of CDN soils where most of our wheat is grown, probably accounts for our lowest stroke incidence in the world. This factor has been largely proven as a strong correlator. Where selenium is high in soils, populations have low stroke incidence. Selenium is a major artery scourer, being the most powerful anti-oxidant.
Suggested supplements.
A balanced Vitamin E product with excess Gamma E.
Selenium
Magnesium
Vitamin D3
Bioflavonoid complexes
L-Arginine
L-Lysine
Choline
Lipase
PUFA oils (omega 3)
Vitamin C
Folate
B12
retinol
resveratrol
lycopene
quercetin, hespertin, rutin
acidopholus
celery
B6
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