Since this month is related to Valentine’s Day and we have a special focus on the heart I’d like to point out an interesting article that was sent to my inbox from a colleague, Heart Surgeon Declares on What Really Causes Heart Illness .
It is interesting to see the common denominator of inflammation at the root cause of our North American lifestyle-related diseases.
Dietary factors related to chronic inflammation are associated with dietary recommendations of a low fat, high carbohydrate diet resulting from the lipid hypothesis and the diet-heart hypothesis. Ancel Keys’ research has been increasingly scrutinized. For a comical view watch the Big Fat Lies and if you choose a little more research read Gary Taubes’ The Soft Science of Dietary Fat or watch his presentation for his book Why We Get Fat.
Food for thought.
(Don’t forget to come by our next workshop at the Guelph Y: Heart Health)
