almost exclusively from the saturation of proteins in the blood. (Note that smoking also increases blood
protein concentrations, as shown below). Fats, on the other hand, have no blood-clotting ability. In their
attempt to avert a heart attack, the capillary cells absorb the excessive protein, convert it into collagen
fiber, and store it in their basal membranes. Although this emergency response has a blood-thinning and,
therefore, life-saving effect, it also makes the blood walls thicker and more vulnerable to injury.
Examinations of connective tissue in obese people have proved that it contains not only plump fat
cells, but also large amounts of dense collagen-fiber. Collagen is 100 percent pure protein. Building more
collagen-fiber than normally needed is one of the main emergency measures the body takes to deal with
dangerously high protein concentrations in the blood. By removing the protein from the blood and thereby
putting it out of circulation, the blood becomes thin and a major crisis is avoided. But the situation
changes drastically when the body's "protein stores" are all filled up to capacity, and protein consumption
continues. This time, the blood becomes and remains saturated with protein. In such a case, the blood
begins to permanently thicken and develop a tendency towards clotting.
Unless the afflicted person takes aspirin, which has a blood-thinning effect, a stroke or heart attack
may occur. Yet in the long term, aspirin not only fails to prevent such an incidence but strongly
encourages it. A heightened risk of deadly uncontrolled bleeding may also result from regular or
excessive use of aspirin. In addition, once aspirin treatment discontinues, the risk of suffering a heart
attack is greatly increased.
Warning: If you suffer from macular degeneration, the #1 cause of blindness in people over 55 years
old, avoid taking aspirin. Also avoid smoking.
Recent research found that smoking is the leading cause of macular degeneration; half of all smokers
develop it. As soon as a person stops smoking, the risk lessens by one third. A major study linked aspirin
to America's epidemic of macular degeneration. The often prescribed one-aspirin-a-day routine makes the
retinas more likely to hemorrhage. Besides, aspirin belongs to the same class of painkillers as Vioxx,
Celebrex and Aleve, all of which were found to increase heart attack and stroke risk by over 50 percent.
Tests have shown that abstaining from food for a periodic length of time reduces the size and amount
of both fat cells and collagen fiber deposits. This also demonstrates that overeating protein does, in fact,
increase protein tissue in the body. As explained before, and to emphasize this crucial point, the protein
deposits accumulate in the basal membranes of the capillary walls and the connective tissues that
surround the cells. As a direct consequence of this development, the thickened blood vessel walls are no
longer capable of absorbing sufficient amounts of oxygen, water, and nutrients, and hence they cannot
remove all the metabolic waste products that the cells produce. Therefore, the cells that make up these
blood vessels become injured and eventually die from malnutrition, suffocation and dehydration.
In a young person, the main blood vessels of the heart have a diameter of about 3mm. By regularly
overeating protein foods, the normally smooth and polished inner wall of a blood vessel becomes uneven,
and the blood vessel as a whole thickens and loses its elasticity. This leads to a deterioration of blood flow
throughout the circulatory system and may culminate in a complete blockage. Coronary arteries that are
totally blocked resemble old rusty, calcified water pipes. Their walls are brownish-red and are clogged
with yellowish, calcified material.
The Revealing Role Of Homocysteine
Researchers discovered that the toxic, sulphur-containing amino acid homocysteine (HC) promotes the
tiny clots that initiate arterial damage and the catastrophic clots that precipitate most heart attacks and
strokes (Ann Clin & Lab Sci, 1991 and Lancet 1981). HC is a consequence of the normal metabolism of
the amino acid methionine, which is abundant in red meat and dairy products. Normally, your body has a