Heart Rate Variability and Nutrition: Can "Bad" Fats and LOW Cholesterol Disrupt Your Heart Leading to AFIB?Heart rate variability and nutrition are linked, say researchers. How can the foods you eat disrupt the rhythms of your heart? Heart irregularities such as AFIB are related to eating "bad" trans fats AND researchers have also found that strokes are more likely -- the LOWER your level of cholesterol! 1) AFIB, they say, is related to eating "bad" or hydrogenated trans fats, and... 2) Your risk of a stroke will INCREASE the LOWER your levels of cholesterol are -- a surprise finding by Japanese researchers! "It's like a double whammy," explains Peter Light, a researcher at the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute, the lead author of a recently published study. • Nobel Prize Winning Discovery Helps AFIB "Bad" Trans Fats but NOT Cholesterol?Although it has been known that “bad” trans fats (NOT animal or "saturated" fats) will clog arteries, it is only just coming to light that:• Foods rich in trans fats and hydrogenated oils can also interrupt the electricity of the heart itself, causing arrhythmia. • "These bad fats don't just clog your arteries, they are stored in your heart cells, and that can affect how the heart beats. This can really worsen the condition of a patient suffering a heart attack." • The trans and hydrogenated fats stored in the cells of the heart, “can actually cause sudden cardiac death through arrhythmias during a heart attack,” according to this new research of heart rate variability and nutrition. Why? • A heart attack will be more damaging because of the cellular changes made by the "BAD TRANS FATS" in processed foods -- cookies, fries, baked goods, cereals etc! So it is wise to consider heart rate variability and nutrition BEFORE resorting to blood thinner medication -- BEFORE your doctor suggests these for AFIB to prevent blood clots: • Are Natural Blood Thinners As Good as Blood Thinner Medication? • What are the Harmful Warfarin Side Effects Longterm? • How does Vitamin K2 Prevent Calcium Build Up? Heart Rate Variability and Nutrition: "Bad" Fat Buildup?Publishing his research in the European Molecular Biology Organization Journal, pharmacologist Peter Light has found a new, compelling reason to avoid harmful trans fats.His research explains this new linking of heart variability and nutrition as follows: • Our heart uses fat as an energy source to beat more than 100,000 times a day. But if bad fats are stored in the heart this causes an excessive build up of calcium in the cells of the heart. • In normal hearts, calcium is pumped in and out of the heart each second with each wave of electricity. • But in a heart filled with too much trans and harmful fats, there is a build up of calcium, and these abnormally high calcium levels disrupt the heart’s electrical flow and can cause arrhythmia -- abnormal rhythms –- as well as hyper contractions, where electrical signals are firing when they shouldn’t be. • In particular, bad fats interfere with a protein called the sodium-calcium exchanger. "Its role is to pump calcium out," Dr. Light said. "But during a heart attack, it pumps calcium in." • The more calcium builds up in the heart, the worse the heart attack and the harder it will be for the patient to recover, according to the research. This new linking of heart rate variability and nutrition of fats, according to Dr. Light, will hopefully encourages the public to avoid foods rich in trans fats and hydrogenated oils: • COOKIES • BAKED GOODS • DONUTS • FRIES • PROCESSED FOODS Instead, it is recommended to use monounsaturated fats of olive oil, avocados and omega rich oils in fish and nuts that are BENEFICIAL for heart health. Ask Us How to Stop AFIB Naturally• You may ASK US about proven NATURAL agents that prevent blood clots by improving circulation, while lowering blood pressure and clearing the arteries.• Ask us about supplements that are SAFE to take along with warfarin, or how to safely go off warfarin with your doctors approval: Better Omega Oils for Heart Disease Prevention, Psoriasis Eczema, ADHD and Arthritis?• Quiz: Which are Healthy Fats and which Fats are Deadly? • How Nutrition Helps Heart Health Compared to Meds LOW Cholesterol Linked to AFIB?Japanese researchers found a link between LOW cholesterol levels and a heart rhythm disturbance known as atrial fibrillation, or AFIB.• In Japan, cardioembolic strokes are quite common. • These are caused by small blood clots that form in the heart, and they then travel to the vessels in the brain causing blockages. The relevance of the Japanese research is: 1) atrial fibrillation, or AFIB is a risk factor for clot formation in the heart, or cardioembolic stroke. 2) bleeding or haemorrhagic strokes were 96% LOWER for people who had the HIGHEST CHOLESTEROL levels! LOW Cholesterol = MORE Risk of Stroke: Japanese ResearchJapanese researchers have found a relationship between LOW cholesterol and INCREASED risk of stroke.Dr. Hisako Tsuki of Kansai Medical University, in Japan, presented data for risk of strolke at different levels of cholesterol in more than 16,500 people followed for a decade. • The amazing results were that the HIGHER the cholesterol, the LOWER the risk of stroke. • This held true for 2 different types of strokes: 1) Ischaemic STROKES caused by blockages in the arteries and by clotting -- 71% REDUCED strokes for the people with the HIGHEST cholesterol levesl, compared to those who had the LOWEST. 2) Haemorrhagic or bleeding strokes were an amazing 96% LESS for people with the HIGHEST cholesterol levels as compared to those with the LOWEST levels. See the Archives of Internal Medicine. Stroke Risk LOWER with HIGH Cholesterol?Dr. Hisako Tsuki had split cholesterol levels into 4 groups:• with the LOWEST being less than 4.1 mmol/L and the HIGHEST being greater than 6.2 mmol/L. • Taking all forms of stroke together, risk of death in the HIGHEST cholesterol levels was 77% LOWER than in the LOWEST cholesterol levels. But we know that cardiovascular disease includes heart disease too. So perhaps increased cholesterol levels were associated with enhanced risk of heart disease deaths, and these "balanced out" deaths from a stroke? • Actually, risk of death from HEART DISEASE in the HIGHEST group of cholesterol group was NOT ANY HIGHER, statistically speaking. It was actually LOWER, but it was NOT statistically significant. • The results showed that the HIGHER someone's cholesterol was, the LOWER their risk of death due to cardiovascular disease. • Overall, in those with the highest cholesterol, risk of death was 58% lower than those in the lowest cholesterol group. Reduce risk of stroke and heart rate variability and nutrition! • Heart Disease Cure? YOUR Heart Disease Symptom Reversed? • Natural Blood Thinners as good as Blood Thinner Medication? Which Are "Bad" Fats?While the research on heart rate variability and nutrition of fats was done in a lab, at a molecular level, it has some potential practical implications.For example, Dr. Light said, patients scheduled for heart surgery could be advised to cut out all trans fats for a few weeks before the operation as a way of reducing the risk of a poor outcome. Dr. Light said this troubling effect on the sodium-calcium exchanger was not seen with mono unsaturated fats such as olive oil. • AVOID BAD FATS: Those that are solid or semi-solid, such as margarine and partially hydrogenated oils, are BAD FATS. He said the research also has implications for the impact of trans fats on diabetes and hypertension, because similar mechanisms are at work. • TRANS FATS -- the artificial partly hydrogenated oils made to give food a creamy texture and increase its shelf life. IT TAKES SPECIAL EFFORT TO AVOID TRANS FATS: • Virtually every fast-food or family restaurant French fry is cooked in trans fat-filled grease. Almost half of all CEREALS, both cold and hot, contain it, according to the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA. So do 70 percent of cake mixes, 75 percent of CHIPS and other salty SNACKS, 80 percent of frozen breakfast foods like WAFFLES, and 95 percent of COOKIES. • Even products people buy when they want to eat healthier -- granola, POWER BARS and low-fat COOKIES and CRACKERS -- are often made with partially HYDROGENATED vegetable oil. During a recent informal survey of 140 varieties of CRACKERS on a typical supermarket shelf, only three brands had no partially HYDROGENATED oil. • Avoid the foods that typically have TRANS FATS -- baked goods such as CAKES, TARTS, COOKIES, DONUTS, FRIES, and a wide variety of PROCESSED foods. • Watch carefully, because this “PHANTOM FAT” can be well hidden in your cereal bowl. It's the bad boy in your bag of MICROWAVE POPCORN. It lurks in those “low-fat COOKIES” and even in ENERGY BARS. Ask Us for Safe Supplements to Stop AFIBYou may ASK US about supplements to improve circulation and dissolve existing small blood clots so your doctor can SAFELY take you off Warfarin and prevent dangerous bleeding:Heart rate Variability and Nutrition: Best Protection?Don’t hold your breath waiting for the food industry to change, however, because for the most part they have not yet found healthy substitutes, and heart rate variability and nutrition are not typically a concern!People are simply prescribed blood thinner medication, but these have great risks: See: Dangerous Warfarin Side Effects? • GOOD FATS such as fish oils, nuts, avocados and olive oil do not have the same bad effect on the heart’s electrical rhythms. So if you want to avoid taking drugs for arrhythmia, this new heart rate variability and nutrition connection should be good news! • Best Heart Surgery Nutrition for Recovery? Heart Rate Variability and Nutrition: Salt - Potassium BalanceEAT YOUR BANANAS FOR POTASSIUM:Heart rate variability and nutrition have been linked for a long time – we all know to lower our salt intake for heart problems, but there is more to it... Arrhythmias are also due to SALT intake in the absence of adequate POTASSIUM. • It is not so much the salt intake as the proper SODIUM/POTASSIUM ratio in the blood: Electrolyte imbalances in the blood are caused by our typically eating too much sodium – salt, with NOT ENOUGH POTASSIUM to balance the electrolytes needed. • Good potassium sources are BANANAS, ORANGE JUICE, POTATOES, ALMONDS, AND WHOLE MILK. Many people have a potassium/sodium imbalance due to not enough potassium, and this imbalance that is linked to AFIB, arrhythmia and heart disease. • More about heart rate variability and nutrition protection: • Vitamin K and Vitamin D2 Protect against Heart Disease • Heart Surgery Nutrition for Best Recovery Recommendation for Best Supplements:Want to protect against AFIB -- heart rate variability and nutrition? Ask us for recommendation of high quality heart protective supplements: AFIB, Heart Rate Variability and Nutrition:Mini Stroke Symptoms: Knowing the signs of a mini stroke is important because researchers are finding damage occurs even after mild stroke symptoms:• Heart Attacks NOT Caused by HIGH Cholesterol? • What Nutrition Best Helps Heart Health? • Heart Rate Variability and Nutrition: What Nutrition Helps Heart Health Best? • How Does Congestive Heart Failure Nutrition Help? • Dangerous Warfarin Side Effects? • Heart Disease Cure? 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