Low Fat Diet - Ornish Diet:

The Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet is, quite simply, the most powerful diet on the planet right now. So far the studies are showing that The Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet has the almost magical power of reversing heart disease and prostate cancer with no known downsides.  If you have erectile dysfunction (which is almost always a sign of cardiovascular issues), high blood pressure, poor lipid profiles or heart disease, I highly recommend that you consider the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet.  Really the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet might better be called The Last Chance Diet as it offers a final chance for healing to all those who have destroyed their health through a Western diet and lifestyle. (One diet that has done poorly in the research is the Atkins (Low Carb) Diet.  Read about it here.)

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By the way, I should mention that the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet's claim to fame is that it actually has been shown to reverse arteriosclerosis.  Yes, that's right:  participants on the Ornish Diet actually saw the plaque in their arteries decrease.  Prior to this, scientists thought that reversing heart disease was impossible, but the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet changed all of that. 

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Interestingly enough, Big Pharma tried to do the same thing by throwing drugs at the situation and have had very limited success.  Astra-Zeneca, for example, funded a study on patients with high C-Reactive, i.e. CRP levels where patients were given a placebo or a huge dose of their drug called Crestor, or rosuvastatin by its generic name, and did successfully reverse heart disease.  However, this was a very high dose and the drug already had significant side effects.  (Google on  rosuvastatin and JUPITER for more details.) 

In other words, Big Pharma has pulled out their biggest guns and still cannot do what the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet does.  The Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet, as you will see below, does much, much more than just simple reduction of arterial plaque.  And it has no long term side effects!

The Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet is a radical change for most of us struggling with heart disease, Erectile Dysfunction, Metabolic Disorder, pre-diabetes, high blood pressure and other middle aged maladies.  But the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet is Your Medicine and that's how you need to look at it.  Besides cleaning out your arteries, the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet very significantly lowers high blood pressure.  One study of diabetics (half with heart disease) found that their average blood pressure was a high 136/79 and fell to an average of 124/72 on the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet.  This is a huge drop and put people with very serious medical condition(s) just a hair above normal! Similar results were found in individuals with '1,245 participants who had coronary heart disease (55%), diabetes, and/or at least three other risk factors (hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and obesity)'. [2] High blood pressure is a huge risk factor for both erectile dysfunction and stroke.  (You should also read about healthy the How Incredibly Healthy Grains For the Penis.)

A Low Fat (Ornish) Diet has been found to boost mood in multiple studies.  For more information, read this link on How to Control Appetite and Boost Mood through Diet.

Your family and friends all love you, but they also have almost killed you with their love. Well, now it's time to pull away from the crowd with the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet. Do you really want to live like them?  Isn't it better to be a little lonely at times than to live a life full of angioplasties, stints, prostate cancer, strokes and limp sex?

What do I push on this site?  The primary two things are Exercise and a Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet.  (A Mediterranean Diet is an excellent, but slightly inferior in my opinion, alternative to the Low Fat Diet.)  Now, interestingly enough, researchers studied just this scenario:  they put patients with mild heart problems - and most people on a Western Diet would be in that category! - on a Low Fat Diet (not as strict as the Ornish however) along with intense exercise.  What did they find?  You guessed it:  drastically reduced heart disease and dramatically reduced injury to the arterial walls. [3] This stuff works. 

I know some of you may be thinking that you could never live without fat in your diet.  Well, actually you will be surprised how your palate will change if you just give it a couple of weeks.  My experience, and Dr. Ornish echoes this, is that it's best to go "cold turkey".  In other words, if you try to go pretty-doggone-Low-Fat but still not-quite-Low-Fat, the desire for fatty foods does not go away, because you are still occasionally tasting and sampling your old Western Diet.

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What is better and easier in the long run is to just go completely on a Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet.  You will probably have a week or two where you find your self craving meat, butter, oils, cheese - all those things - but then the desire will suddenly disappear.  I remember when I first started a Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet, if I smelled a steak or something grilled, it would just about kill me - I really think I would have stolen a drumstick right out of a baby's hand if no one was looking in those moments. However, it just took a little time and soon all of the stuff I grew up on actually sounded greasy and heavy.  So, again, give your palate time to adjust and be patient:  it's well-worth the wait.

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Another objection that you may have is:  will I get enough fat in my diet on a Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet?  The answer, of course, is yes.  Remember that if you eat an Ornish, you will get about 10% of your calories from fat.  If, for example, you eat 2,700 calories in a day on an Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet, that is 270 fat calories, which would be almost exactly 30 g of fat.  And that is more than enough for your body's basic requirements.

By the way, here are some of the nice undocumented advantages of the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet that most people will experience in the short term:

1.  In a few weeks or months, you will find that the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet gives you back your ability to think and learn and remember.  Some memory supplements, such as Gingko Biloba, work by improving blood flow to the brain. As the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet clears out your arteries and blood vessels, you will find that you can think more clearly.  I have thought to myself, 'I remember what it is like to be a kid again'.

2.  Your skin may initially dry out on the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet as your body adjusts, but give it a few weeks and you will find that your Skin smooths out significantly and feels as soft as a babies' backside.

3.  You must give this a few weeks or even months, but you will experience increased morning erections as your endothelial function is restored by the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet, your veins are literally cleaned out and your blood pressure is lowered.

4.  The Ornish Diet will lean you out.  I found that the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet melted off some extra fat on my abs and, as I write this, for the first time since college, I am headed toward a six pack on my abs.  The Ornish Diet gives you that lean, muscular fit look that you had back in your early twenties.  And, by the way, that's what most women want! I talk about this more in my link on Muscle Madness.

5.  After years and years of struggling, you will find yourself saying and thinking, 'I forgot what it was like to feel young'.  This is undocumented, but the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet will help you get some of those old rushes back, those old highs.

6.  The Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet is so powerful that you will be able to throw away most of your supplements.  Some of you are dropping a hundred bucks or more a month.  You'll be able to completely eliminate almost all of that.

7.  The Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet can be a great money saver.  Let's face it:  the most expensive items in your diet are, by far, the chicken, beef and pork.  Brown rice, beans, wheat - these are pennies on the dollar relatively speaking.

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Ornish has received some heat because he eliminates nuts, fish, olive oil and other items that many researchers consider heart healthy.  But the fact is this:  Ornish's Diet works..  

The Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet will has been shown to reverse heart disease and cancer. Think about that:  there are not pills or drugs that can do that! If there was a compound that could actually reverse heart disease, for example, every drug company on planet earth would be fighting for it and spending billions advertising for it. (The statins will reduce arteriosclerosis, but only if taken in very massive doses.)

And, to his credit, Dr.Ornish is also an excellent, down-to-earth writer.  I would recommend either of his two books as an easy read that will probably save your life: Dr. Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease and Eat More, Weight Less.  Eat More, Weigh Less is particularly important if you want good, low fat recipes.  Dr. Ornish collaborated with a French chef for this book and close to two thirds of the book are delicious dishes and food preparation ideas for low fat cuisine. 

So are there any cautions?  Just a few and I include them below:

CAUTION:  If you have Low Testosterone, the Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet may lower it further.  However, if you have heart disease and erectile dysfunction, then you should - ask your doctor first of course! - go on the Ornish Diet anyway to partially reverse your problems. Remember that erectile dysfunction is primarily a cardiovascular problem.  The Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet will help the great majority of guys out there with this issue.  But my point is that if you have low testosterone, you need to monitor it and you may even need to go on HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy).  If that is the case, then keep in mind you get all the advantages of strong testosterone - woo hoo! - coupled with a diet that is cleaning out your arteries and improving your erectile dysfunction by the hour!

CAUTION:  The Low Fat (or Ornish) Diet will actually give you more energy, but even so (especially for those in middle aged and beyond), you may want to supplement with some CoQ10.  The Ornish Diet very significantly lowers cholesterol and CoQ10 is manufactured by your body in the cholesterol metabolic pathway.  Your CoQ10 levels fall off significantly with aging anyway.  (CoQ10 has an excellent safey record:  it is one of the few supplements where I can say that I know of no downside and only many strong, positive advantages.)  You may also want to supplement with a little - and I emphasize a little - zinc for the same reason.