21 Days to a Healthy Heart - Softcover

Watson, Alan

9780972048101: 21 Days to a Healthy Heart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972048103 ISBN 13: 9780972048101

Publisher: Diet Heart Pub, 2002

Alan Watson's book offers a radical perspective on heart health that challenges the status quo opinions in the medical field. The content of this book is revolutionary...

Although he's not a doctor himself, Watson does seem to be qualified to discuss cardiovascular nutrition, and he definately did his homework on this book; his research here is impressive, making his arguments/theories well substantiated and convincing.

He consulted with numerous medical practitioners, examined and analyzed tons of medical studies and manages to explain highly technical information (about such medical terms as lipids, homocysteine, cholesterol, etc.) in such a way that a lay person can comprehend it.

His tone is understandable without being condescending; it's well written, pursuasive, and extraordinarily timely given the current statistics on heart disease in America. While I can't say with resolution that I "buy into" Watson's ideology, I can, without hesitation, say that he's written and published an important book worthy of attention. Writer's Digest 10th Annual International Self Published Book Awards.

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From the Publisher:

If you read just one book this year about coronary heart disease, 21 Days to a Healthy Heart is the right choice. 21 Days refutes the prevailing hypothesis that dietary cholesterol and saturated fat cause heart disease - and provides compelling evidence that - instead - dietary sugar and trans fatty acids are to blame. In addition, 21 Days provides a comprehensive answer to the question: What to eat and what not to eat. 21 Days thoroughly discusses the role of carbohydrates, fats, and protein in diabetes and heart disease. 21 Days contains an extensive bibliography, 400 scientific references, and a glossary of key words.

From the Author:

Diabetes, heart disease and pot belly obesity cannot be blamed on butter, lard, roast beef or eggs. Consumption of these nutrient-dense traditional foods declined as the rate of heart attacks increased ten times between 1930 and 1960.

Instead, we were told to consume margarine and shortening - plastic fabricated vegetable fats containing up to 50 percent trans fatty acids. Trans fats, in combination with excess refined sugar found in most processed foods, are the principal dietary cause of coronary heart disease.

The "War on Cholesterol" is medical fraud, perpetuated by the National Cholesterol Education Program, made up of the big food companies, the American Medican Association, and organizations like the American Heart Association.

Yes, we trusted the experts, and today we are paying dearly for it. One in three children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes and 80 percent of all diabetics die of heart disease. The low fat dietary advice of the National Cholesterol Education Program is to blame. The solution: Eat like your grandparents did in 1910 - an Atkins-style diet that emphasises high quality protein and natural fat.

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