Reply #25: More current then... and actually... antioxidants, natural [View All]

[HysteryDiagnosis]

anti-inflammatories, healthy fats and B-Vitamins and the like do a pretty good job of protecting your bad self from heart disease. Oh.. and don't forget that some rabbits make in excess of several GRAMS of vitamin C per day for no small reason. We no longer make ANY. This is from 2004.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi
cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15082105&query_hl=12

Heart disease: the greatest 'risk' factor of them all.

Broxmeyer L.

Med-America Research, 148-14A Eleventh Avenue, Whitestone, NY 11357, USA. [e-mail]



By the turn of the last century, flying in the face of over a hundred years of research and clinical observation to the contrary, medicine abandoned the link between infection and atherogenesis; not because it was ever proven wrong, but because it did not fit in with the trends of a medical establishment convinced that chronic disease such as heart disease must be multifactorial, degenerative and non-infectious. Yet it was the very inability of 'established' risk factors such as hypercholesterolemia, hypertension and smoking to completely explain the incidence and trends in cardiovascular disease that resulted in historically repeated calls to search out an infectious cause, a search that began more than a century ago.
Today, half of US heart attack victims have acceptable cholesterol levels and 25% or more have none of the "risk factors" associated with heart disease, including smoking, high blood pressure or obesity, most of which are not inconsistent with being caused by infection. Even the case of the traditionalist's latest 2003 JAMA assault to 'debunk' what they call the "50% risk factor myth" falls woefully short under scrutiny. In one group 30% died of heart disease with a cholesterol of at least 240 mg/dl, a condition which also existed in 21% who did not die during the same period.