Healthy Eating Myths ShatteredWritten by Dr. Jamie Fettig
Salt does Not Cause High Blood Pressure. Some things you need to know first to fully understand blood pressure, as well as helping you to understand about many other things in your body: The difference between average and normal.Average is a mathematical statistic. Don’t let that big M word scare you. All average means is that you add up all totals you have and divide by number of totals you added. This gives you an average of group of numbers. Normal is what is right for an individual, or what is common or appropriate for each particular person. What medical profession does is make average normal. They measure a bunch of people’s blood pressure, divide added totals by number of people they measured, and come up with an average blood pressure. And then they say this is normal blood pressure for everyone. I will let you in on a little secret. If you had blood pressure I have at this exact moment, you would probably pass out. If you had same blood pressure standing as you did sitting, you would probably pass out. Your blood pressure changes all time, all day long. Your normal blood pressure needs to be different than everyone else’s. You need right blood pressure for you at right time. If you had average blood pressure all time, you probably would be dead by now. So what do you do with this? Take all numbers doctors give you with "a grain of salt." Just because their charts show that you “should be” in this range does not mean you actually should. You are different than everyone else. Your normal might be outside of range of average that they go by and still be perfectly healthy for you. So your “high blood pressure” might very well be normal for you. And if it is actually too high for your normal, salt really has nothing to do with it. Again medical profession came up with a theory and never really tested it before they released it as “truth” on world. Someone said that salt attracts water, and blood has water in it. So if you get rid of some of salt in blood, then there will be less water in blood as well. And if there is less volume of blood, pressure will have to be less. That was their theory and they began telling people to eat less salt thinking it would lower people’s blood pressure. No real tests, no real studies, and yet believed to be true by many.
| | Eating Healthy Myths DestroyedWritten by Dr. Jamie Fettig
All Refined Carbohydrates are Hazardous to Your Health. The average American eats over 300 pounds of sugars each year. Most of this is because of all sugar that is added to everyday foods most people eat. Sugars are refined carbohydrates include anything that ends in “ose.” Sucrose, fructose, glucose, lactose, maltose, dextrose, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup and sugar all count as sugar. An easy way to remember this is anything that rhymes with “gross.” I am not talking about sugar naturally found in fruits and other such sources. If nature put it there, it is usually fine. And again, how it affects you will depend more on you individually than type of fruit itself. Yes, sugar is natural, but it is not fresh. And when you add it to another food, other food is not pure either. Refined carbohydrates also come in form of grains and flours. Most pasta, bread, flour, and other grain-based products are refined, almost to point of sugar, and to point where refined carbohydrates respond in body same way sugar does. There are two big reasons why refined carbs and sugar are so bad, as well as hundreds of smaller reasons. The two big reasons are these: 1.Refined carbs and sugar have no vitamins, minerals, or anything else that is needed to operate and run a healthy body 2.Refined carbs and sugar cause blood sugar levels to be artificially raised and lead to all problems that come with high blood sugar levels. First, refining process takes away all vitamins and minerals that are naturally found in whatever plant is being refined. There is nothing left but pure carbohydrates. Why are vitamins and minerals so important for you anyway? Let me give you a little example of why vitamins and minerals are so important. If you want to build a brick house, what do you need? Well, you need bricks and mortar, and wood, and windows and doors. You need some basic stuff to build that house. What if you don’t have bricks, or mortar or windows or doors? How well do you think house will function after you are done “trying” to build it? Not very well.
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