Dear Owen Fonorow,
I have been communicating with Sally Jewell for some time now, ever since I read your book.
I teach seminars on staying healthy with natural foods, bypassing drugs and the toxins found in processed foods...and I write a monthly column for an organic magazine that is distributed all over Texas. My five years of intensive research from alternative doctors; (preventative, cutting edge, anti-aging, energy doctors) books and newsletters was culminated by your "Practicing Medicine Without a License"!
It all came together and a "light" went on about the LDL being oxidized into Lp(a) and forming plaque, I have been teaching how hydrogenated Omega-6 oils (soybean, corn, canola, safflower, sunflower and cottonseed) oxidize the body's organs and have been the major source of the epidemic of diseases we are seeing now. Two books, "The Coconut Oil Miracle" by Bruce Fife and "Eat Fat, Lose Fat" by Dr. Mary Enig (the international authority on trans-fats) gave me my basic information. So, I put 2 and 2 together and have surmised that the oils that cause Lp(a) is what is causing plaque.
I would like to talk to you and find out your idea on the subject.
Marna
Thank you for your work and kind words about my book. I am very pleased to "meet" you. You are certainly on the right track about the trans fat and you are helping people! See: http://healingmatters.com/deception.htm I think you will find Thomas Smith's research and understanding helpful to your cause! As these bad oils are apparently the primary (and probably only cause) of Type II diabetes. Anecdotally, everyone that I recommend that paper to, who are diagnosed w/ TYpe II and high blood sugar, have been able to bring their sugar levels down by following Smith's protocol/ advice. (Maybe the failures don't contact me?)
Smith makes sense, and knowing that the same process would block vitamin C entry, by increasing so-called Glucose Ascorbate Antagonism (crowding out what little C is in the blood from entering cells) one can predict increased heart disease in diabetics. All caused, perhaps, by transfats and "bad" oils.
I wrote a paper on this some time ago, i.e.,
http://internetwks.com/owen/gaa.html