It has been changing in my mind but more or less remains a stable regimen. I believe in expanding arteries, increasing vascular integrity reducing cholesterol, de-oxidizing cholesterol, losing weight, stopping smoking, and increasing fat movement thru bowel and fat metabolism.
What I researched and ended up doing more or less shadowed David Rowland's and Julian Whitaker's (Pritikin diet worker) school of thought towards reducing apolipoprotein-a, homocysteine, c-reactive protein, triglycerides, LDL and increasing HDL. This is accomplished variously by increasing B vitamins by mega amounts, increasing C, D, E, and to a certain extent A. Increase anti-oxidants and amino acids in balance. This means a lot of supplements because it is impossible to do it completely and assuredly by food alone.
If I had no supplements in quantity and limited access to medicine I would start this dietary regimen right away: add onions; 1.5 lbs a week; garlic, (4 cloves a day); unsweetened dark chocolate; almonds and walnuts; 1/2 lb of celery/day; cherries; blueberries; rasberries, strawberries, oats; skim milk;lecithin; whole grains; two of each day; lettuce, spinach, kale, parsely, purslane, carrots, beets, hot/mild peppers; bananas; pineapple; apples; oranges; potatoe, raw or cooked, sparingly; or whole grain rice, sparingly; OJ and AJ; north sea fish; beans; 1.5 glasses or red wine, tomato paste or sauce, soy milk, soy beans or tofu, yogurt, grape juice, olive oil. Drink combo of celery, carrot, apple, onion, garlic, +- tomatoe juice each day. (Once of twice a week eat about 6 ounce serving of skinless chicken or turkey.) Eat 5 smallish meals composed of these per day, reducing total calories by 500 per day. Add seasonings, thyme, parsely, cayenne, rosemary. Eat only organic whole grain foods. Broil, lightly boil, bake or steam your foods. Do not overboil or fry. As far as possible eat veggies raw. Eat fresh as much as possible. only add 1/2 tspn of magnesium or sea salt to any salad, or boiled veggie pot. Use balsamic vinegar very sparingly. Soy sauce as well. Walk 1.5 miles in morning and 1.5 miles in evening before 8 briskly each day. Add .5 miles each sorty every 6 months until 2.5 miles per walk is achieved. In between breakfast and lunch drink a glass of water with one tblspn of psyllium fibre.
Consume 2000 mgs of magnesium per day, and if you can take 2000 mgs of no flush niacin. Add a super-antiox to that, If you can add 2000 mcgs of B12 and the same for folic acid. Take as well as B multi vitamin 2wice a day. If you can, take 2000 mgs of ester C a day and 800 IU's of vitamin D, and 800 IU's of total E from aor.ca, or True E from Now. A multi vit called Multi-Basics 3 from AOR.Ca would be good. You could add 2000 mgs or l-lysine and 3000 mgs of l-arginine to that. A Multi mineral mix such as brewer's yeast, or eat a boiled egg a day would be good. Two other supplements should be considered, omega 3 fish oil, or flax oil, and CLA. Four elements found in the blood of people who get 90% less heart disease and cancer than North Americans are magnesium, vitamin E, bioflavonoids, and selenium. 4 to 20 times more. Good idea to stock up on those. Multi-Basics 3 on one three pill dose has 200 mcg of selenium. Don't take any more than that.
Cut out all white bread, salt, sodium containing foods as far as possible. No more sugar. Cut starches down by about half to 2/3's. If you must eat canned, except for fruit, make sure it has no added sugar, and wash it for five minutes in a calander. Cut out all fat meats, bacon, and all hydrogenated oils and margarine. Cut out whole milk, and all inorganic foods. Cut out anything with a pesticide, herbecide, antibiotic or hormone. No more restaurants, even vegetarian unless they are vegan or organic. No more junk foods. The end of that. No more food from brightly coloured packages in convencience stores. The only thing you can eat from a corner store is the olive oil and the tuna in water and maybe the orange juice. The rest should have a skull and cross bones on it.
Loblaws has all that stuff you may need in their organic section more or less.
BP should be normal in 4 months.
Stay on the diet and exercise for life. It works and it feels good.
There is a much more intensive supplement therapy for the very determined that could be followed. I would recommend it. More on that later. Get Julian Whitaker's Book "Reversing Heart Disease". I would recommend David Rowlands "The Nutritional Bypass". There is no necessity of stents, or bypasses surgery, or lipitor even, although in some cases where there has been a heart attack I would not stand in the way of statins. All the rest of the stuff can be done too. Niacin or no flush niacin may interfere with a statin. I would change the statin before I stopped the niacin. Know what all the medications your doctor prescribes are, and side effects, interactions, and precautions. Know what they do, and what you can take with them and what you can't. Ask, and get answers, and if the physician treats you like a dummy, change doctors.
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