What Causes Heart Disease-- a Cardiologist Speaks Out

If you have ever had a test result of elevated cholesterol in your blood, you may have been warned about cholesterol. I have been on several occasions.
While I was never advised to go on medication for it, I was usually given standard advice to watch out for and avoid cholesterol in my diet. In fact in my last exam everything was good as far as my overall results, except that the "bad" type of LDL cholesterol was a bit high, which caused concern for my doctor.
I was already eating whole grains and fish, and avoiding trans fats and foods high in cholesterol. Researching cholesterol, I discovered the conventional wisdom regarding cholesterol is not unanimous. Cholesterol as such is less of the culprit than it was previously thought to be.
Dr. Dwight Lundell, a cardiologist who has performed thousands of surgeries, is one of many physicians who now question this prevailing belief about cholesterol and heart disease.
Instead, Dr. Lundell questions the role that saturated fat and cholesterol play in heart disease. He states that rather than cholesterol, it is inflammation, that is the source of most types of degenerative disease, especially heart disease and type 2 diabetes. And he finds a diet of processed foods high in sugar and Omega 6 fatty acids as a leading cause of many health problems,including heart disease:

Heart Surgeon Speaks Out While we do need some omega 6 fatty acids in our diet, many people are consuming too much of them. Omega 6 is found in margarine and most cooking oils including corn, soy, safflower, palm kernel oil and canola oil except expeller processed canola oil. Olive oil and fish oil are a good source of omega 3 fats.