Posted by Jim Whitaker

In Reply to: Bread* consumption is the primary cause of hypertension in the US. posted by Jim Whitaker

I have gotten a number of mail messages reading something to the effect
of "rice eating countries to not have heart problems"! Explain that!
(And implying, of course, that I was full if "it".)

What I posted was a CURE for hypertension. It has nothing to do with
rice eating countries having low rates of heart problems. If you eat
lots of grains and etc, you are NOT GUARANTEED of getting high blood
pressure because you may not be genetically predisposed to insulin
resistance. However -- if you have hypertension, it is basically a
100% guarantee that you suffer from hyperinsulinemia and insulin
resistance. It is the only thing that makes your artery wall cells
swell up and choke off the blood supply requiring your heart to
pound harder. You better treat it, or you die of it.

First off, It is a MYTH that rice eating countries are free of heart
related problems. Look at China, the peasants have the worst health of
any national group, and rice is a traditional staple food there --
mandated by the communist government. For them, rice aggravates their
health problems.

There are three factors at play in Japan:
1) These people are genetically not predisposed to insulin resistance.
Over the years those who were insulin resistant could not make
it on the staple foods that were availiable and thus had a tendency
to get sick and die, pruning their gene pool.
2) They get lots of EFA's and other Omega 3's from the fish protiens
which they eat in great quantities. These help to clear out
and balance out "bad" cholesterols.
3) Their diets do not contain the BUILDING BLOCKS for cholesterol.
Their bodies want to make it to produce eicosanoids according
to genetic programs. However, lacking the building blocks that
are found in beef, chicken (cage raised), some game animals,
and other sources of cholesterol -- cannot. In a sense, they
have a dietary deficiency which starves their own bodies
cholesterol production mechanisms and protects them to
some (small) degree. Of course, oysters are loaded with
cholesterol and this makes a bad mix even in Japan -- but
oysters are not a staple food.

Combine the 3 so that you have a group of people with relatively lax
insulin responses as compared to americans and this yeilds an anecdotal
illusion that humans can eat all the rice or other carbohydrates they
want without heart problems. As a gene pool, we are more susceptable
to insulin resistance, meaning that we are more likely to have much
more insulin in our systems, and we eat meat. Combine high insulin
with cholesterol sources and you get a population with a lot of clogged
arteries and hypertension.

Our medical "guru's" here tell you not to eat cholesterol because it
"produces blood serum cholesterol that causes hardening of the
arteries". This is a serious deception. Cholesterol is digested to
form readily availiable building blocks for cholesterol, which your
body then uses if it wants to. If you ate cholesterol and it went into
your bloodstream as they claim, you would go into anaphylactic shock
whenever you ate any kind of food. Human cholesterol is produced in
response to insulin levels as a building block to build eicosanoids.
By telling you to avoid cholesterol laden foods, they are attempting to
mimic the Japanese cholesterol building block deficiencies in another
country with radically different cultural food supplies and a different
gene pool. It is the GRAINS we eat that tell your body to start making
all that cholesterol. If you eat anything with cholesterol, it is
digested allowing your body to feed the cholesterol production
mechanism that is programmed into your genes. Going out of your way to
limit cholesterol intake is downright stupid. It can cause dietary
deficiencies, especially in people from gene pools that were heavy meat
eaters through history such as Scotts, Eskimos, Irish, and Nordic
peoples and anyone with type O blood. You should be going out of your
way to limit cholesterol PRODUCTION. Do that by inhibiting insulin by
avoiding large quantities of carbohydrates, and especially avoiding
starches. Fruit juices and soda pop are basically sugar and water and
also are a culprit in this because of the sheer quantities in which we
consume them. So incidently is the quantity of lactose in milk in
people who drink a lot of milk (assuming that they have the genes for
lactase enzyme to break down the lactose into glucose).

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