Omega-3 EPA and DHA supplementation is definitely one of the most well-respected clinical uses for specific nutrients amongst the allopathic medical community. It has earned in place in as a useful, natural means of preventing heart disease - and even managing it. A dosage of 1.1 grams per day is bona fide recommendation for prevention while people with metabolic syndrome, diabetes or, who's coronary artery disease is verging on an attack are advised by the most knowledgable medical doctors to take up to 4 grams per day.

Ihn a 12-week trial involving 50 patients, Karen Reid and a team of colleagues at the University of Adelaide discovered that those who took four capsules a day of a supplement called aged garlic extract had blood pressure around 10mmHg lower than a group given a placebo. But - when you cook fresh garlic the ingredient which is responsible for reducing blood pressure disappears.

Over the last 15 years, medicine has gone through a revolutionary change. The medical dictum was that nutrition and lifestyle made no contribution to chronic disease. Medicine has done a complete turn-around and has started a war against bad lifestyle habits like smoking, fat consumption, sedentary behavior, etc. Modern medicine has accepted its responsibility to direct the lifestyles of people toward health. Possibly no movement other than Orthomolecular medicine was shouting like a voice in the wilderness before the rest of the profession identified the important role of nutrition.

As of late many patients have asked me about cholesterol and the impact of high cholesterol foods on their health. During the course of these discussions I have found that a great deal of misinformation has been spread to the public and has been accepted as truth. Myths about the nutritional values of food and the dangers of high cholesterol intake in the American diet abound. It is with the aim of dispelling some of these rather costly and themselves dangerous myths, that this article has been written.

Cholesterol is a deadly poison which we must avoid at all costs. That is the fad which is being pounded into us by unthinking doctors and popular magazines. How true is it?

http://orthomolecular.org/library/jom/1996/articles/1996-v11n04-p223.shtml