American Heart Association President Suffers a Heart Attack

John Warner, MD is a 52-year-old cardiologist and president of the American Heart Association (AHA). Dr. Werner recently suffered a heart attack in the middle of a health conference.

In a statement, the AHA reported that Warner was in stable condition after having a stent placed to open a blocked artery.

There is little doubt that Dr. Warner followed AHA recommendations. In my opinion, that was a major cause of his heart attack. Many of these antiquated AHA recommendations actually increase the chances of heart disease. These same recommendations are also adhered to by the United Stated Department of Agriculture (USDA), their food pyramid that is actually upside down.

The latest scientific research and data indicate that most calories should come from healthy fats and the least from carbohydrates. This is the exact opposite to what the USDA and the AHA recommends.

A mild ketogenic diet will turn your body into a fat burning machine. Healthy fats burn much cleaner than carbohydrates or sugar, produce less free radicals and oxidative stress and in all probability, will add years to your life.

Half of America is overweight and are either diabetic or pre-diabetic. The average woman today weighs what the average man did in the early 1960s, about 162 pounds!

If we keep going down this path, the number of disabled Americans will get to the point that our economy will crumble. The many can care for the few, but the few can't care for the many.

In my opinion, the major problem started in the 1950s with Dr. Ancel Keys, who is the father of the Lipid Hypothesis. Dr. Keys was on the cover of Time Magazine in 1961. In 2014, Time had a different cover, urging people to eat butter and explaining why the scientists got it wrong.

Dr. Keys more or less fabricated this hypothesis by manipulating data sets. He threw out any data that contradicted his hypothesis. America bought in the Lipid hypothesis, hook, line and sinker.

The standard American diet is full of processed foods, fast foods, sugar, bad fats and chemicals.

The cure for disease isn't in the medicine cabinet, it is on your dinner plate.

Of the foods scientifically proven to cause heart disease and clog your arteries, sugar and industrially processed omega-6 vegetable oils, which are by the way found in nearly all processed foods, are pretty much on the top the list.

What kinds of foods does the AHA recommend to protect your heart?

Not only does the AHA support ample carbohydrate and grain consumption, the AHA also recommends eating harmful fats such as canola, corn, soybean and sunflower oil.

The AHA also still insists that saturated fats are to be avoided, even though solid scientific evidence is abundant to the contrary.

Last summer, the AHA even sent out a worldwide advisory, stating that saturated fats such as butter and coconut oil should be avoided to cut the risk of heart disease and instead, to replace them with Following this bad advice may be the main reason that Americans are getting fatter and sicker with each passing decade.

What Do Scientists Say?

Dr. Sanjoy Ghosh, who is a biologist at the University of British Columbia, has shown that mitochondria can't easily use polyunsaturated fatty acids for fuel due to these fats’ molecular structure. Other researchers have shown polyunsaturated fats inhibit mitochondrial function and can even cause cell death.

These fats tend to get deposited in the liver, where they contribute to fatty liver disease and also on arterial walls, leading to cardiovascular disease.

Frances Sladek, Ph.D. is a toxicologist and professor of cell biology at UC Riverside. Sr. Sladek says that polyunsaturated fats behave like toxins that builds up in tissues, since your body cannot easily get rid of them.

To complicate matters, when these vegetable oils are heated, cancer-causing chemicals, such as cyclic aldehydes are produced.

Eating French fries more than twice a week has been shown to double a person’s risk of death compared to never eating French fries.

Animal and human research has also found vegetable oils promote:

• Obesity and fatty liver
• Lethargy and prediabetic symptoms
• Chronic pain/idiopathic pain syndromes (meaning pain with no discernible cause)
• Migraines
• Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis

But these oils are the fats that the AHA are recommending!

According to Dr. Cate Shanahan, who is a family physician and the author of “Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food,” These polyunsaturated fats react with oxygen and these reactions disrupt cellular activity and cause inflammation.

Inflammation is linked to 7 out of 10 of the most common causes of death, including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer.

In an open letter to AHA president Dr. Warner, Dr. William Davis, a New York cardiologist and author of The New York Times best seller “Wheat Belly, Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health,” calls AHA recommendations "nonsense" and that "We are trapped by the outdated but profitable lipid hypothesis". He goes on to say "... now that this disease has touched you personally, your eyes will be opened to the corrupt and absurd policies of conventional coronary care and the American Heart Association.”

The Dozen Recommendations That the AHA Might Consider:

1. Optimize vitamin D levels and get out in the sunlight too, which increases blood flow and nitric oxide production

2. Increase the intake of healthy saturated fats, monounsaturated fats and omega 3 fats

3. Optimize gut bacteria

4. Address any thyroid imbalance

5. Eat real food, not processed or fast food

6. Eat plenty of fresh vegetables and lower glycemic index fruits

7. Minimize sugar, carbohydrate and grain consumption

8. Reduce exposure to toxins

9. Exercise regularly

10. Get plenty of sleep

11. Reduce stress levels

12. Drink plenty of clean water and not from the tap

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