Dr. Dwight Lundell - Heart Surgeon Spills the beans on What Really Causes Heart Disease

In his article earlier this month, Dr. Dwight Lundell a heart surgeon spills the beans and says "I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact. "

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes

With some even very young, and extremely fit international footballer collapsing during a game, the problem of heart disease and heart attack needs to be understood better.

The old doctrines and old drugs for cholesterol for example are just off target.

"Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before."

Inflammation is the root cause of heart disease, and when we "have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity. "

"Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation."

"While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator -- inflammation in their arteries."

The good news is that animal fat (saturated fat) is not what it is thought to be, "The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today."

In that case what fat is "bad"?

"The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers."

More shocking revelations in Dr Lundell's book "The Great Cholesterol Lie".