Diet for a New America V.1 - Blood fat

Heart attacks, certain cancers, osteoperosis, diabetes

The major diseases of our society may be caused in part by what we eat

One of the physician who helped me to understand

why is Dr Michael Clapper

I first woke up so to speak,

when I was working on the anaethesia service

learning how to put people to sleep.

And I was seeing my patients for the next day surgery

for coronary artery bypass surgery in

order to bypass arteries in our heart

Because it was late at night,

I drew the man's blood test and when

I took the blood to the lavatory and had

it processed, I couldn't belive my eyes.

Now, normally this liquid layer of floating on top

of the blood clot is quite transparent, it's

yellow but quite clearly, you can see right through it

The blood in this patient's tube, however, was

anything but clear.

The serum floating on his clot was thick

and greasy white it looked like glue.

In fact, it stuck to the side of the blood tube

when I shifted it too.

I went back to the patient, and I said,

"Mr Phillip, did you eat before you came to the hospital

tonight?

He said, "yes". I said, "What did you have?"

He said I had a cheeseburger and a milkshake

And when he said that, I realised what I was

looking at in his tube was all the fat in

the beef burger and the butter fat in the cheese

and the butter fat in the ice cream in the milkshake

And all these fat has oozed out into his blood and

actually turned his blood fatty

Well, 30, 40, 50 year of keeping

your blood very fatty creates changes in the blood

vessels that are very dangerous.

Over the years, arteries can become clogged

with fatty material, then a blood clog can form,

blocking the blood flow completely.

If the artery leads to the heart, the lack of oxygen can cause

the heart muscles to die, that's a heart attack.

If the clogged artery leads to the brain,

the patient has a stroke.

The next morning, we took Mr Phillips to the

operatiing room, and I put him to sleep.

and the surgent opened up his chest.

And from these arteries he began pulling

out yellow greasy deposits, that is the fatty

material called atherosclerosis.