Health And Nutrition, Segment 11

Hello World:
I want to try to correct some health and nutrition misconceptions here in this post. Young and athletic people can still have heart disease and heart attacks. It was once believed that only supposedly older people or people over 50 were the only subjects of heart disease and heart attacks. I would not consider 50 years, for people, to be old.

There are several things that can cause heart disease and heart attacks or heart failure. In this post on this topic, I want to discuss heart disease and heart attacks caused by poor diet in younger people. It is because of poor diets, especially in western countries, people in their 30s and 40s develop heart disease and get heart attacks.

What I mean by poor diet, I mean eating foods with a lot of saturated fats, trans fats, high amounts of sodium and high amounts of sugar. All of that is bad for the human body no matter how young a person is, when consumed regularly or on a consistent basis.

Heart disease leads to heart attacks, and heart disease is something that builds up over time, as in years before an actual heart attack. Unhealthy fat and sodium wear away at the artery walls in the body, causing inflammation and bruising. Then plague begins to stick and build up in the arteries and blood vessels. Again, that takes time, but is a result of years of bad dieting.

So, just because a person is young and looks physically fit, and is cut with muscles DOES NOT mean they are healthy inside their body with their vital organs. I have seen a report of a man in his 30s, who was not fat, but in shape and ran or jogged a lot. He one day collapsed and died of a heart attack.

There was an autopsy done on his heart, and when they cut it open, you could see all of the fat that clogged up his arteries. The fat looked kind of like macaroni pasta. It was NOT pasta, but it looked like pasta. It was found out from people that were close to him that he, frequently, ate a lot of greasy fast food.

I want to move back into vitamin and mineral suppliments and food. I have already mentioned the importance of taking vitamin and mineral suppliments. Suppliments should be taken with healthy food. A person still needs to eat good food with the addition of suppliments. There is no suppliment that I know of as of yet that has EVERY or ALL the nutrients in it, that the human body needs in the right quantities.

Most suppliments do not have protein in them. Generally, you have to get protein from food, except for a few exceptions with protein shakes. Food, as I pointed out before, also does not have every nutrient and enough quantities per day of nutrients for the human body. That is why it is important to take BOTH food and suppliments.

In relation to chelation therapy, I believe from my research that chelation works. Chelation is a substance, when taken orally, or by injection, that cleans out mineral deposits and plaque out of the arteries and blood vessels. Chelation therapy unclogs the circulatory system by demineralization. There are several types of chelation, and one type is EDTA. So, again, there are other types.

Now although chelation therapy works, I want to caution everybody about taking it. That is because it does both good and bad things. Chelation when consumed in the body, goes in and pulls out minerals, such as mercury, lead, arsenic, zinc, calcium, magnesium, iron, copper, etc out of the body. The good part about it is that chelation cleans out those bad toxic minerals, like mercury, lead and arsenic. However, as you can see from that above list chelation also pulls out the good minerals or essential minerals from the body. Your body needs calcium, magnesium, some iron, and copper. Chelation does not distinguish between the good and the bad minerals; and people who are selling and advertising chelation need to inform the consumers of that risk.

It is my OPINION that chelation should NOT be taken long term, but should be taken only until desired results of arteries are properly cleaned by diagnosis from a doctor or by the way a person feels better. In conjunction with that, the person taking chelation to clean the arteries should also eat a more healthier diet to prevent the need for future chelation therapy.

Chelation therapy should be cycled only for a certain number of weeks, and then stopped. That is because during and after the chelation cycle, it is highly important to take a good multiple vitamin or vitamins and minerals. That way after the chelation has cleaned out the bad minerals from the body, you are restoring your body with the good minerals that your body needs.