A revolutionary and practical approach to preventing heart diseases, improving health and promoting life-long wellness. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Kilmer S. McCully explains what is really behind the epidemic of heart disease. For many years, clogged arteries have been inaccurately viewed as the cause, rather than a symptom, of heart disease. Now, McCully shows you how to cut your risk of heart disease by controlling the real culprit, homocysteine. Considered one of the most significant medical breakthroughs in recent years, McCully's findings have been validated by numerous large-scale studies. A safe, effective, and revolutionary program for lowering homocysteine levels and cutting your risk of heart disease In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Kilmer S. McCully explains what is really behind the epidemic of heart disease. For many years, clogged arteries have been inaccurately viewed as the cause, rather than a symptom, of heart disease. Now, McCully shows you how to cut your risk of heart disease by controlling the real culprit, homocysteine. Considered one of the most significant medical breakthroughs in recent years, McCully's findings have been validated by numerous large-scale studies. The Heart Revolution: Challenges the long-held assumption that lowering cholesterol is the key to preventing heart disease Explains how eating vitamin B-rich food can control homocysteine levels Lays out a plan with menus for putting more B vitamins in our diet Discusses how food processing and additives compromise our health Explains how costly cholesterol-lowering medicines can actually harm our health Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart Pork Chops with Potatoes and Onions, Veal with Wine and Mushrooms, Guacamole, Omelettes. This is not your typical diet program. Dr. McCully offers real food choices with fresh ingredients available just about everywhere. The focus is on delicious foods that will leave you satisfied. The purpose is to make sure you're getting enough of the vitamins needed to prevent heart disease—B6, B12, and folic acid, as well as essential, phytochemicals, fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential oils. It's easy to follow this plan as it relies on foods you want to eat with little preparation time and tons of variety. Dr. Kilmer McCully was a highly regarded physician at Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital until his controversial theories on heart disease cost him his research funding and his job. He continued his work at a VA Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island. At long last, his theories are now widely accepted by the medical and scientific community. His coauthor, daughter, Martha McCully, is the beauty director at Allure magazine. The Heart Revolution The Extraordinary Discovery That Finally Laid the Cholesterol Myth to Rest By Kilmer McCully HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. Copyright © 2007 Kilmer McCully All right reserved. ISBN: 9780060929732 Chapter One What you believe about heart disease is about to change. Many Americans, including medical scientists, have a one-track mind when it comes to the condition. In the past, fats and cholesterol in the diet were blamed for causing heart disease. But years of medical research have produced no convincing evidence that these components of foods actually cause hardening of the arteries. In fact, scientists have proven that pure cholesterol does not cause arteriosclerosis and that elevation of blood cholesterol is a symptom--not a cause--of heart disease. Discoveries about a substance in our bodies, homocysteine, are revolutionizing our understanding of the cause of the nation's number one killer. We have learned that deficiencies of B vitamins in the diet--folic acid, vitamin B6, vitamin B12--trigger heart disease by raising the level of homocysteine in the blood. Now there is a way to prevent heart disease and to achieve a longer, healthier life. All you have to do is improve your diet. These simple yet revolutionary discoveries and concepts are very different from what we've been told for years. Heart disease has been studied, researched, and discussed, and yet it's still the number one killer in this country. How could all the medical experts be wrong about something this big, this important? Could we experience a revolution in our thinking in this day and age? We understand how Copernicus changed the way we viewed the Earth, not as the center of the universe, but as a planet revolving around the sun. That's how the word "revolution" took on its profound meaning. But that was five hundred years ago, and there was less information available in those days. Certainly today we would know if the experts were off base. Maybe not. There is a revolution going on. The way we look at disease and aging, especially heart disease, is changing. The previously touted dangers of dietary fats and cholesterol need to be reconsidered, and existing theories need to be revised because of the new discoveries ab