Put Your Heart in Your Mouth

Put Your Heart in Your Mouth
by Natasha Campbell

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Author: Natasha Campbell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-01
ISBN: 095485201X
Number of pages: 176
Publisher: Medinform

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Book Review: Take it with a grain of salt.........
Summary: 3 Stars

Somebody I know who has a very worrisome family history of heart disease was given this book to read by his nutritionist. I do a fair amount of reading on nutrition and feed this friend a fair amount of books etc. on nutrition trying to help him out. He and his wife were real excited about this book so I thought I better give it a read. FYI I have devoted a fair amount of my adult life to health and nutrition. I recently had a calcium screening done at age 52 to measure arterial deposits and had basically none.

This book is pretty radical from a nutrition standpoint in that a large portion of the beginning of it is devoted to debunking the current orthodoxy that saturated fat and cholesterol both in your diet and in your blood cause coronary heart disease. The author quotes many studies to back this up and presents the information in a thorough, readable and scientific way. Many of the things she recommends after that as the real cause of CHD are from what I know pretty sound for other nutritional reasons like avoiding refined carbohydrates and eating plenty of fruits and vegetables. She goes on to claim that a plethora of man-made chemicals are the real cause inflammation of the arteries which then leads to CHD. This is interesting and plausible however she makes lots of pronouncements but does not offer much in the way of scientific studies, cultural comparisons or even anecdotal evidence. In the first part of the book she emphasizes that correlation is not causality i.e. that the presence of elevated cholesterol in the blood causes CHD is like saying the presence of red trucks and water at the scene of a fire is the cause of the fire. Of all the things she suggests are the real cause of heart disease she offers little in the way of studies that show even correlation let alone causality. You have to take her word for it.

For example at the start of one section she says in one sentence that microwaves cause cancer. That is quite a statement to be making in passing, as a lot of people use microwaves and there is little evidence that I am aware of that they cause cancer and that has been studied to death. There are no foot notes or references on that in the back of the book. Some of causes she mentions would not be that hard to set up studies for. If you really think that a big culprit of atherosclerosis is perfumed laundry detergent and the end result of that is that it raises you blood cholesterol because you body is waging war on the laundry detergent in your clothes then it would be a simple matter to have one group use tide and the other use some other eco laundry detergent and see if the Tide group had higher cholesterol.It would also be interesting to find cultures that ate a lot of meat and dairy plus did not eat refined foods and were not inundated with modern chemicals like say shampoos or lotions and compare. There are some of those like the American Eskimos who previously did not suffer from CHD and now do but, why didn't she look for those at a bare minimum? A lot of that work has already been done.

She also seems to suggest that while meat and dairy offer many healthful benefits according to her that the more the merrier. Most nutrition studies that I have seen especially those that study healthy cultures emphasize that meat should be eaten in small quantities. In addition to that there are large environmental consequences for consuming a lot of meat. In third world countries meat is just plain expensive for that reason. It is fairly accepted that it would not be possible given the earth's resources for the entire world to consume animal products at the level that Americans do.

So I would say before taking her advice and going out and merrily eating unlimited amounts of organic beef and eggs for breakfast lunch and dinner especially if you have a family history of heart disease, you might want to do a little experiment on yourself. You could go cold turkey on all modern chemically enhanced products and refined garbohydrates and see if your cholesterol goes down or if you body chemistry is in alignment with what the author thinks would be ok. This brings up another point and that is after debunking many common notions about what LDL and HDL are good for or not she does not layout any recommendations for bench marks for these or whatever else she thinks are as or more important.

The last chapter of the book is kind of curious in that for all the scientific bashing of commonly held ideas about cholesterol she starts out with she then asserts that we need to not rely too heavily on science for reasons she presents to accept her claims. One other thing of interest is that she asserts that most of the claims about animal products and heart disease are the result of the conspiracy of the manufactures of refined carbohydrates to get us to eat more of those and less meat and dairy. Contrast that to the claim by many nutrition researchers that the reason we eat so much meat and dairy is because of a conspiracy of the meat and dairy lobby. Those two categories of food do not seem to be mutually exclusive in the modern American diet. A conspiracy of both would certainly be possible. But who is right about who is killing us?

Because of all the radical claims in this book I would like to see it reviewed by some professional nutritionists with solid academic credentials.

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