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All this expensive medicine and the progression of the described by considering oxidative stress as the key disease is barely slowed, with the hapless patient then __ initiating event in atheroma formation. requiring complex surgery to manage the damaged Oxidative stress results from the action of oxygen free joint. Is any of this really necessary? radicals. Free radicals are unstable molecules with People who strive to maintain a reasonable omega-3 unbalanced electron clouds that can damage any tissue Oo omega-6 balance and also keep their bodies free o with which they come into contact. These free radicals oxidative stress by regular intake of natural plant-based are an inevitable result of biochemical respiration. antioxidants are generally not troubled by However, oxidative stress is dramatically increased by ostoeoarthritis or other degenerative diseases. Also, exposure to toxic chemicals, additives, volatile fumes hey are rarely troubled by blood pressure problems and _ and electromagnetic radiation. hey have no need for antidepressants—two major Like sparks flying from a campfire, free radicals can money-spinning drug groups for the globa cause damage to the tissues in which they occur if they pharmaceutical companies. are not quenched. In its well state, the body is The modern’ pharmaceutical equipped with an _ impressive industry appears to be bent on a endogenous antioxidant system, and course to medicalise the population . oan exogenous antioxidants are found or conditions which are often caused It IS the rancidity abundantly in tree- and vine-ripened in the first place by their subsidiary of the oil that ruits and berries as well as companies in the food industry. 9on9 vegetables. Over the last century, cane sugar Initiates the According to the oxidative stress as gone from being a rare luxury inflammatory heory, disease results from an ood to a massively overconsumed Q inflammatory reaction occurring ealth risk. Added in large quantities reaction to cause around sites of oxidative injury. When o soft drinks and most processed the plaque not the atheromatous plaques are subjected ‘oods, in the sedentary body it causes 2 o careful biochemical analysis, it is wild swings in blood sugar with mood cholesterol itself. ound that the cholesterol in the scuba: anceps |The proper asus, need mun cl glucose attaches to haemoglobin treatment should actually rancid. Rancidity is the piece: sterner HM be toaddress the MM") 2. es fee swelling girth. oxidation, not to excess light, heat or chemical The t II diab idemi . , in th b f ee Pe fee culprits like McDonald's use PR level of cholesterol It is the rancidity of the oil that initiates the inflammatory reaction to cause the plaque, not the cholesterol itself. The proper treatment should be to address the oxidation, not to manipulate the level of cholesterol artificially. gurus to re-invent itself as a health food restaurant whilst still peddling the same toxic mass of saturated and trans- fats and sugar that they call food. The derangement of the diet leads to artificially. disturbances in blood chemistry, especially the lipid Additionally, oxidative stress on the membrane of the profile, with increases in low-density lipoproteins and __ platelets renders them overly "sticky", setting the stage otal cholesterol. for a vascular event, whether a myocardial infarction, a Based on pathological studies showing cholesterol in cerebrovascular accident or ischaemia of a limb. Whilst artery-narrowing atheroma, the medical and certain genetic characteristics of an individual or a pharmaceutical establishment devised the cholesterol group may render them susceptible to oxidative stress heory of heart disease, claiming that high levels of _ in a particular site or tissue, the underlying pathology serum cholesterol impregnates itself into the arterial remains oxidative stress. wall, thereby causing disease. With cholesterol as the Without wholesale dietary and lifestyle changes, the number-one bogeyman, the pharmaceutical industry _ health of the population will continue to deteriorate. hen presented the frightened public with magic People will fall victim to a range of chronic degenerative bullets—the statin drugs—certain to cure all their _ illnesses until society is unable to afford the health care problems. These drugs cause serious side effects but, costs involved. The current unbalanced, devitalised, despite this, the statins have grown into a multibillion- | demineralised and generally deficient national diet has dollar industry. Yet there are many weaknesses in the _ led to preventable conditions imposing a serious social cholesterol theory, and the observed facts are better and economic cost on the community. initiates the the plaque, not the cholesterol itself. The proper treatment should oxidation, not to manipulate the level of cholesterol artificially. 20 * NEXUS It is the rancidity of the oil that. inflammatory reaction to cause be to address the OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com