Recipe for Heart Health: A Randomized Crossover Trial on Cardiometabolic Effects of Extra Virgin Olive Oil Within a Whole‐Food Plant‐Based Vegan Diet | Journal of the American Heart Association

This is the study for the olive oil post two posts below this one.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.124.035034

CARBS!

Types of carbohydrates: 6 groups, 3 of which will be important to you.

1) Unrefined, Unprocessed Carbohydrates

Examples of these foods include intact whole grains that we consume in their intact form (such as brown rice, oats, quinoa, millet, buckwheat, wheat berries), starchy vegetables (such as sweet potatoes, yams, corn, peas, potatoes, winter squash) and legumes (such as beans, dried peas and lentils).

2) Unrefined, Processed Carbohydrates Low in Calorie Density

Examples of these foods include whole grain pasta, including pastas made from whole wheat, brown rice, corn or buckwheat.

(The reason these foods are low in calorie density is that, during the cooking process, they absorb a large amount of water back into their structures, which lowers calorie density.)

3) Unrefined, Processed Carbohydrates High in Calorie Density

Examples of these foods include whole grain bread, whole grain bagels, whole grain crackers and whole grain dry cereal.

4) Refined Carbohydrates

One example is white rice. While these foods are low in calories and low in calorie density, they have had most (if not all) of their fiber removed; in addition, they lose many valuable nutrients in the refining process. Always choose the whole grain.

5) Refined, Processed Carbohydrates Low in Calorie Density

One example is pasta that has been made from white flour.

While these foods are low in calories and low in calorie density, they have had most (if not all) of their fiber removed.

6) Refined, Processed Carbohydrates High in Calorie Density

Examples of these foods include breads, bagels, crackers and dry cereals that have been made from white flour.

These foods have had most (if not all) of their fiber removed and they lose many valuable nutrients in the refining process.

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NOTE: Types 1, 2 3 are best. Refined carbohydrates and refined processed carbohydrates, regardless of their calorie densities (types 4 5, 6), are not recommended and should be minimized, if included at all.

Read more here:

https://www.drmcdougallforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=20368&p=193127#p193127

New Concerns About Olive Oil | Dr. Neal Barnard | The Exam Room Podcast

Is olive oil unhealthy? A new study analyzes whole food, plant-based diets with and without olive oil and how they affect the heart and cardiometabolic risk factors.

Dr. Neal Barnard goes inside the study and surprising findings when he joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Live.

Previous research has shown that a healthy diet that includes extra-virgin olive oil is beneficial, but the crossover trial in this study begs the question: Are you better off without it?

Topics Discussed

– Olive oil effects on cholesterol

– Heart health risk factors with and without oil

– Comparing the new findings with previous research on olive oil

– Comparing health factors of olive and other oils

– And more

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.124.035034

Spine surgeon says I’m right about back pain & treatment


I’ve made videos explaining the most common causes of back pain = which are NOT in the textbooks!

There are some old papers on abdominal aorta atherosclerosis being associated with lumbar spine degenerative disc disease. I figured out that ischemia (& likely gly-phosphate & flouride & lack of vitamin C) appear to be associated with all the common patterns of spinal degeneration from skull to sacrum:

#1. DISH (Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis) = anterior & lateral vertebral body bridging osteophytes (bone spurs).

#2. Interbody fusion = calcification and ossification across the disc space to fuse the vertebral bodies.

#3. Calcification & ossification of the posterior disc & the posterior longitudinal ligament = OPLL (Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament).

#4. Baastrup’s disease = ossific fusion of the posterior spinous processes. Why? B/c failure of the outer disc = annulus fibrosis

Then there is abnormal motion = segmental instability. Then the spine proprioceptors notice this. The spine responds by trying to fuse the segment.

Low fat plant foods increase blood flow to the spine b/c have potassium, magnesium, nitrates (precursors to nitric oxide), antioxidants, vitamin C (needed for proper collagen synthesis).

SAD diet = high fat & high sodium = decreased blood flow to spine.

Sad diet has more GP = appears to damage collagen.

Tap water has F- (flouride) = appears to damage collagen of spine ligaments.

Excess stress causes hypertension & increased blood viscosity = promotes atherosclerosis.