Re: clogged arteries!!!

Excerpt from “fire your doctor”



Atherosclerosis or “hardening of the arteries” is the underlying pathology behind most cardiovascular disease. Narrowed blood vessels prevent proper blood circulation, raise blood pressure, and catch wandering blood clots more easily. The result may be slow decline or instant death. The answer is neither surgical or pharmaceutical, it is nutritional.


Lecithin – Take 2-4 tablespoons per day. Lecithin is a lipotrophic (fat-moving) agent that helps keep fatty deposits off the inside of your arteries. This both prevents and reverses atherosclerosis. As too much fat is a problem for your body and its blood vessels, too little of the essential fatty acids (EFAs) is a problem for the ticker. Actually, your body does not need to eat any fat at all. Aside from taste and texture, the only role of dietary fat is to provide the EFAs, linolenic acid, and linoleic acid. Fatty acids are the preferred food source for the heart. Lecithin contains abundant linoleic acid and some linolenic as well. Heart-happy linolenic acid, found in fish oils, is also available in seeds, walnuts, and vegetables. This is why a near-vegetarian diet, which includes some fish, is best for health maintenance. Fish oils (for linolenic acid) and lecithin (for linoleic acid) are essential for a healthy circulatory system.


Each tablespoon (7.5g) of lecithin granules contains about 1,700 milligrams of phosphatidyl choline, 1,000 milligrams of phosphatidyl inositol, and about 2,200 milligrams of essential fatty acids. These valuable substances tend to be undersupplied by our daily diet.



Lecithin tastes crummy, which is why lecithin in capsules is so popular. These are admittedly convenient, but are also expensive. In order to get one tablespoon of lecithin, you have to take eight to twelve capsules. Since an effective supplemental dose is three or more tablespoons daily, that’s a lot of capsules to swallow. Much less costly is liquid lecithin. A taste for liquid lecithin has to be acquired; it is easier to take if you first coat the spoon with milk or molasses. After taking liquid lecithin, have a “chaser” of any dairy product or molasses.
Lecithin is cheapest bought in bulk at a health food store as granular lecithin. Probably the best way to take a lot of lecithin easily is to stir the granules quickly into juice or milk. Personally, I think milk best covers the taste, but pineapple juice works well, too.


Lecithin granules won’t dissolve, but rather will drift about as you drink. They can also be used as a topping on any cold food. All supplemental forms of lecithin are made from soybeans. An alternate, but minimal, nonsoy source is egg yolk. Generally, maximum benefit is obtained when you eat the yolk lightly cooked (such as in a soft-boiled egg).


http://www.vitalitymagazine.com/prescription_for_a_happy_heart


i also just posted a series of herbal infusion recipes and in that list is a plan for juicing to reclaim health that looks quite interesting
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