The plumbing of your circulatory system is made up of living cells that depend on the quality of the food you eat to maintain themselves. Without a proper diet, the cells may be starved for nutrition, irritated by toxins, clogged with waste, or all three.
Your circulatory system carries oxygen, nutrition and hormones to every cell in your body, then it removes carbon dioxide and other wastes. It has a tremendous job to do and it never stops for a second until you die. In fact if it does stop, you will die. It only makes sense to give it the resources it needs to do its job well.
The Standard American Diet (SAD) doesn't do a good job of feeding the circulatory system. The diet your grandparents might have eaten on the farm did a good job, but the SAD commercial foods of today have too little nutrition and too much fat, salt, sugar, and preservatives to feed the body's tissues. The diet eaten in the various countries that surround the Mediterranean Sea, known surprisingly enough as the Mediterranean Diet, may be the ideal diet. Another excellent diet that is based on the Mediterranean Diet is the popular South Beach Diet, developed by an American cardiologist.
The biochemistry of nutrition--how the good and bad chemicals benefit or irritate the cells that line the blood vessels--is beyond this short article. The bottom line is this: the human body was designed to eat natural foods. If you eat a natural diet all the cells in your body, including the cells in your heart and vessels, will thank you. If you eat a SAD diet, they will be chemically irritated and they will make you pay.
One example is high cholesterol. We may think of cholesterol as a bad thing. It's not; it's such a good thing that your body makes it all by itself when it needs it. What's it good for? Among other things, your body uses it to patch places in your blood vessels that have become irritated by SAD food.
If you want low cholesterol, stop irritating your blood vessels with SAD food. Then your body will make a normal level of cholesterol. And you won't die of heart disease.
