Dangers of Obesity - The New Disease! - Are You a Victim of Saccharine Disease?
Most people can hardly believe it, but heart attacks, and cardiovascular disease simply didn't exist prior to the 2oth century.
It is, of course, now the number one cause of death today.
But in the June, 1911 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr.
James P.
Herrick reported on the first known case of atherosclerosis (blockage of the coronary artery) and heart attack.
Dr.
Paul Dudley White, who later went on to become President Eisenhower's cardiologist, read of these cases with interest.
He later reported in his autobiography that during his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the 1920's, he saw no further cases of heart attack.
During the 1930's, when he was at Harvard Medical College; he saw them but rarely.
How many heart attacks are seen in Boston hospitals today? It's a pretty safe bet that the people of the early 1900's were not going to the gym, downing their multivitamin tablets, and following a low fat diet.
(Indeed, it's estimated that they ate an average of 14% more fat than is common today!) What they were not eating, however; was refined carbohydrates.
Sugar & refined flour.
There were no Twinkies to be had, no 'Dunkin Donuts' to get the morning fix...
and no heart disease.
In 1974, a British physician Dr.
T.
L Cleave, wrote a book titled The Saccharine Disease.
As a surgeon in the British Navy, Dr.
Cleave had plenty of travel around the world, and he noted that in every culture he studied, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease did not occur until approximately 20 years after refined carbohydrates, in the form of white flour and sugar, was introduced to the culture.
It's the slow nature of the diseases that make refined carbs so difficult for the average person to peg as a poison.
If you went into convulsions, and died within minutes of eating a single Twinkie (with its 27 grams of carbs); no-one would dare to eat Twinkies unless they wished to commit suicide.
Yet this is exactly what our society is doing...
our death from cardiovascular disease (the number one killer in the U.
S.
) may take 50 or more years - so it's not nearly instantaneous and obvious...
yet we are still poisoning our bodies.
The dangers of refined carbohydrates, flour and sugar, are what leads to our lack of health and obesity.
While many people can understand that correlation - they don't realize that even if they appear to be in excellent health, the proper weight, they may be just as prone to the diseases of refined carbohydrates as the seriously obese person obviously is.
Do you have the 'Saccharine Disease'? If you are reading this, chances are quite good that the answer is yes...
It is, of course, now the number one cause of death today.
But in the June, 1911 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr.
James P.
Herrick reported on the first known case of atherosclerosis (blockage of the coronary artery) and heart attack.
Dr.
Paul Dudley White, who later went on to become President Eisenhower's cardiologist, read of these cases with interest.
He later reported in his autobiography that during his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the 1920's, he saw no further cases of heart attack.
During the 1930's, when he was at Harvard Medical College; he saw them but rarely.
How many heart attacks are seen in Boston hospitals today? It's a pretty safe bet that the people of the early 1900's were not going to the gym, downing their multivitamin tablets, and following a low fat diet.
(Indeed, it's estimated that they ate an average of 14% more fat than is common today!) What they were not eating, however; was refined carbohydrates.
Sugar & refined flour.
There were no Twinkies to be had, no 'Dunkin Donuts' to get the morning fix...
and no heart disease.
In 1974, a British physician Dr.
T.
L Cleave, wrote a book titled The Saccharine Disease.
As a surgeon in the British Navy, Dr.
Cleave had plenty of travel around the world, and he noted that in every culture he studied, obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease did not occur until approximately 20 years after refined carbohydrates, in the form of white flour and sugar, was introduced to the culture.
It's the slow nature of the diseases that make refined carbs so difficult for the average person to peg as a poison.
If you went into convulsions, and died within minutes of eating a single Twinkie (with its 27 grams of carbs); no-one would dare to eat Twinkies unless they wished to commit suicide.
Yet this is exactly what our society is doing...
our death from cardiovascular disease (the number one killer in the U.
S.
) may take 50 or more years - so it's not nearly instantaneous and obvious...
yet we are still poisoning our bodies.
The dangers of refined carbohydrates, flour and sugar, are what leads to our lack of health and obesity.
While many people can understand that correlation - they don't realize that even if they appear to be in excellent health, the proper weight, they may be just as prone to the diseases of refined carbohydrates as the seriously obese person obviously is.
Do you have the 'Saccharine Disease'? If you are reading this, chances are quite good that the answer is yes...
