Lee Turner Experiment #18
Legend
Low sugar = Normal diet; honey and stevia primary sweetners
Normal fat = cheese occasionally, olive oil & unprocessed coconut oil
High sugar = Lots of honey, not so restrictive on labels and white sugar
High fat = cheese on a daily basis, brie, gouda, lots of oils, cheese snacks, butter
Extreme fat = Cheese at every meal, macadamia nut oil, coconut oil at most meals.
In this experiment, I sought to prove that either sugar or fat affects cholesterol. I strictly altered my diet based on processed sugar or fats. I tracked every gram of sugar I ate! The results are clear that sugar affects cholesterol, NOT fats. From this, we can extrapolate that any HFC (high fructose corn syrup) or processed sugar that we eat, will cause an insulin spike, which will in turn damage you.
Conclusion: Unless it is a genetic propensity (rare), cholesterol can be controlled by excluding high processed foods (sugar); and drug therapy is not needed. I may die early from one of my experiments, but it will not be from high cholesterol.
For me, this validates the Tokelau Island Study which came to the same conclusion: eat what God made; processed foods are un-natural and lead to disease. Accelerated aging occurs from processed sugar as it causes hyper insulin spikes. Insulin is good in small amounts, but becomes damaging and toxic in larger, continuous amounts (typical high sugar Western diet). Which in turn grants Americans the worst heart disease in the world.
Summary of Tokelau Study: 1971-1982, researchers collected data from Tokelau natives, and from Tokelauan migrants to New Zealand. They monitored cholesterol levels, blood pressure and electrocardiogram (ECG) readings.
Tokelauan diet is based on coconut, fish, starchy tubers and fruit. By 1982, large amounts of processed flour and sugar was now in their diets. Tokelauan migrants to New Zealand had a much more Western diet; more carbohydrates, coming from wheat, sugar and potatoes; more processed sweet foods and drinks; more red meat; more vegetables; more dairy and eggs. Sugar intake was 8 percent on Tokelau, but increased to 13 percent in New Zealand. Saturated fat intake was cut in half in New Zealand. Tokelauans traditionally obtained 40-50% of their calories from saturated fat.
So we would expect heart disease and cholesterol to be dramatically lower for immigrants to New Zealand because they dramatically cut their saturated fat, right?
After moving to New Zealand and eating the Western diet of high sugar and processed foods, what was the results?
Blood pressure: Males were 3x as likely to be hypertensive; Women 2x.
Cholesterol: LDL was elevated; triglycerides were elevated.
Unrelated to this story is Dr. Ravnskov [L1] . He has pointed out that the correlation between saturated fat intake and blood cholesterol is very weak, as is the correlation between blood cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.
Another interesting study is the Kitavans of Papua New Guinea. Kitavans eat a diet composed of yams, sweet potato, taro and cassava, fruit, vegetables, coconut and fish. Grains, refined sugar, vegetable oils and processed foods are nonexistent on Kitava.
Kitavans have an omega-6 to omega-3 ratio of approximately 1:2. Average calorie intake is 2,200 calories per day. Their diet is high in carbohydrate, high in saturated fat, low in total fat, low in protein, high in calories.
Here is the Kitava Study. I added the highlight to the last line:
Primary Health Care Centre, Sjöbo, Sweden.
On the island of Kitava, Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea, a subsistence lifestyle, uninfluenced by western dietary habits, is still maintained. Tubers, fruit, fish and coconut are dietary staples. Of the total population, 1816 subjects were estimated to be older than 3 years and 125 to be 60-96 years old. The frequencies of spontaneous sudden death, exertion-related chest pain, hemiparesis, aphasia and sudden imbalance were assessed by semi-structured interviews in 213 adults aged 20-96. Resting electrocardiograms (ECG’s) were recorded in 119 males and 52 females. No case corresponding to stroke, sudden death or angina pectoris was described by the interviewed subjects. Minnesota Code (MC) items 1-5 occurred in 14 ECG’s with no significant relation to age, gender or smoking. ST items (MC 4.2 and 4.3) were found in two females and Q items (MC 1.1.2, 1.3.2 and 1.3.3) in three males. Stroke and ischaemic heart disease appear to be absent in this population.
Lee Turner Experiment #19: Why do women live longer than men?
Unfortunately, there is no way to document this experiment until after I am dead. There is a theory, with comfortable corroborating data, that the premise of estrogen as the reason for female longevity is flawed. Point of fact, aside from a few benefits, estrogen is quite destructive; ask any estrogen dependent cancer victim.
The theory goes that the routine blood loss associated with menses is actually the cause of the 10 year longevity advantage. This has to do with blood viscosity.
Imagine a water hose running distilled water; this water hose will last longer because there are no micro-rocks eating away at the lining. Add some sand to the water, and the hose won’t last long “ eaten away from the inside out. If you add enough sand, the water viscosity increases (becomes thick) to the point that the water pressure just won’t push it.
Atherosclerosis doesn’t happen all over your body; just primarily at vessels junctures, branches. Edies, turbulent blood is created here. The vessels become wounded and patches are applied. This in turn damages red blood cells (RBCs).
Around 120 days they are worn out and need replacing by the spleen and liver. But until this happens, the stiff inflexible RBCs are forced through the smaller capillaries causing more damage (more pressure).
Menstruating women are producing millions of new healthy RBCs each month and getting rid of the worn out damage producing ones.
Blood viscosity may be the answer; or one of many combined with estrogen and iron accumulation (this causes ventricular hypertrophy in men).
Fat cells produce estrogen, store toxic materials. So routine blood donation lowers blood viscosity, lowers iron accumulation, and weight loss lowers toxins and estrogen. Now I have to figure a way to study this in myself!?!
http://www.ravnskov.nu/uffe.htm
1 Cholesterol is not a deadly poison, but a substance vital to the cells of all mammals. There are no such things as good or bad cholesterol, but mental stress, physical activity and change of body weight may influence the level of blood cholesterol. A high cholesterol is not dangerous by itself, but may reflect an unhealthy condition, or it may be totally innocent.
2 A high blood cholesterol is said to promote atherosclerosis and thus also coronary heart disease. But many studies have shown that people whose blood cholesterol is low become just as atherosclerotic as people whose cholesterol is high.
3 Your body produces three to four times more cholesterol than you eat. The production of cholesterol increases when you eat little cholesterol and decreases when you eat much. This explains why the prudent diet cannot lower cholesterol more than on average a few per cent.
4 There is no evidence that too much animal fat and cholesterol in the diet promotes atherosclerosis or heart attacks. For instance, more than twenty studies have shown that people who have had a heart attack haven’t eaten more fat of any kind than other people, and degree of atherosclerosis at autopsy is unrelated with the diet.
5 The only effective way to lower cholesterol is with drugs, but neither heart mortality or total mortality have been improved with drugs the effect of which is cholesterol-lowering only. On the contrary, these drugs are dangerous to your health and may shorten your life.
6 The new cholesterol-lowering drugs, the statins, do prevent cardio-vascular disease, but this is due to other mechanisms than cholesterol-lowering. Unfortunately, they also stimulate cancer in rodents, disturb the functions of the muscles, the heart and the brain and pregnant women taking statins may give birth to children with malformations more severe than those seen after thalidomide.
7 Many of these facts have been presented in scientific journals and books for decades but are rarely told to the public by the proponents of the diet-heart idea.
8 The reason why laymen, doctors and most scientists have been misled is because opposing and disagreeing results are systematically ignored or misquoted in the scientific press.
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