Haye's Way: Lowering Cholesterol Naturally Protocol

Heart and blood vessel disease, such as angina and hypertension; and metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hypoglycemia; and many other ailments are beginning to be recognized as due to the diet we consume.

The diet in technologically advanced countries has a total fat content of 40 to 50 percent of calories consumed. It is also very high in refined carbohydrates. An especially damaging food combination is refined fats and refined sugars. Investigators have found that in poorer countries where the people eat 20 percent of total calories in fat, where the diet consists mainly of unrefined carbohydrates as whole grains, fruits and vegetables, these diseases are almost never found. The more the fat and refined carbohydrates eaten, the more degenerative disease is found. It is the total amount of fats of all kinds consumed that matters: the more fat, the more disease symptoms.

In addition to the total fat contained, animal muscle tissue of all kinds—beef, pork, lamb, poultry, fish, shellfish, etc., but especially organ tissue (liver, brains, kidneys, etc.) and eggs (chicken eggs, fish roe, etc.), introduce still another harmful substance into our body—cholesterol. While some cholesterol is needed by the body, the body produces all that it requires. The body can handle (although not so easily) the amount of cholesterol present in about three ounces daily of animal protein (meat, fish, etc.). Any more than that gets stored in the blood and tissues. The excess stored cholesterol in time causes ulcers or abscesses called plaques to form inside the blood vessels. This condition is known as atherosclerosis.