Billy Clint and Whole Grains!

It is funny how history repeats itself.  Back in the 50s, President Eisenhower has diagnosed with heart disease.  What did his brilliant physicians advise him to do?  Low-fat.  What happened to him?  More heart disease.  His doctors even started lying to him about his cholesterol levels and weight.

History repeats itself, and now we have former President Clinton having yet another bout of coronary complications.  But don’t worry, it wasn’t due to his diet:

Cardiologist Allan Schwartz said the former president had been feeling repeated discomfort in his chest, and tests showed that one of the bypasses from the surgery was completely blocked.
There was no sign Clinton had suffered a heart attack, and the new blockage was not a result of his diet, Schwartz said.

I’m not a cardiologist and I have no idea why stents and by-passes get fouled up.  It is interesting that they do continue to get fouled up, even given pateints’ supposedly superior dietary adherence.

The sections of blood vessels used to create detours around the original blockages tend to develop clogs five to 10 years after a bypass, Yancy explained. New blockages also can develop in new areas.

It would be interesting to see survival rates and blockage recidivism of coronary heart disease patients who go low-carb, thus increasing the size of their LDL particles, raising the amount of HDLs and possibly decreasing inflamation and oxidization.

Bill Clinton seems to have been hoisted by his own petard.  Politicians are part and parcel of empowering the food lobby to push the USDA to prod us to eat more of the wrong foods via the food pyramid, or as they call it now, “MyPyramid.” Is it a coincidence that bread manufacturers emblazon their packages with it?

Now even the best doctors in the country buy into the USDA’s non-sense, and as the Bible says, “As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.”

–Nick

Nicholas Hahn Uncategorized bill clinton, fda, obesity, paleo diet