FOOD MATTERS

Our nutritional health is now recognized as a vital factor in determining whether we can prevent and reverse heart disease. With so much research supporting the role food has in preventing heart disease, a consortium of world leaders in nutritional medicine have been asked what they would do if they were suffering from a heart condition. The common factors in each of their recommendations helps to simplify what we can do ourselves, to keep heart disease at arm’s length.

Prof Ian Brighthope MD, MBBS suggests that people:

· Adopt an Anti-inflammatory Diet (Scandinavian or Mediterranean Diet): Fish and vegetables, high intake of fish oils, olive oil, garlic and onions, complex carbohydrates, reducing animal fats (apart from fish).

· Stop smoking

· Exercise more regularly

· Reduce the intake of refined carbohydrates like white flour products and sugar.

· Reduce alcohol consumption

· Reduce stress

Patrick Holford is one of Britain’s leading nutrition experts. Patrick is a pioneer in new approaches to health and nutrition, specializing in the field of mental health. This is what he would do to avoid high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart attacks and strokes:

· Good fats

· Balance your blood sugar

· Good intake of vitamins and minerals

· Reduce stress levels

Dr Dan Rogers is a trained Medical Doctor and Naturopath. He has been treating pa-

tients using integrative medicine since the late 1970′s with noted success in treating patients that have been deemed “incurable” by medical practitioners or hospitals. He recommends what we need to do is:

· treat the root cause of heart disease. By changing the internal biochemistry we will cure the disease

· almost all disease are improved by changes in diet and lifestyle. Improving the internal bio-chemistry of the body will develop healthy cells

David Wolfe is a leading authority on Raw Food and Superfoods. His recommended steps to better health are:

· Drink 12 to 16 ounces of fresh vegetable juice everyday.

· Add super foods (foods with an extraordinary high level of vitamins, minerals, co-factors, enzymes and special chemicals) to your diet

The common ground from these experts is that the true causes of disease are:

• Nutrition

• Stress

• Lack of Exercise

• Pollution

Food is good enough to keep you alive but apparently not good enough to fix you when you are sick. Nutritional supplements are necessary because the foods most of us eat are grown in mineral-depleted soils. There is evidence that increased intake of certain nutrients reduces the incidence of Heart Disease, Cancer and stroke.

The good word from these nutritional authorities is simple.

‘You’ll live longer and healthier if you exercise, have a good diet and supplement.’