I strongly recommend reading this article written by a veteran heart surgeon Dr. Dwight Lundell, M. D. who has 25 years experience having operated on 5000+ patients. Just to give you a taste here's the intro:
We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong.
Veteran heart surgeon Dwight Lundell talks about inflammation as the key factor in heart disease -- and how a high-processed-foods, high refined flour and sugar diet can contribute to the problem.
it seems like inflammation is involved in a whole range of diseases. the answer– eat less, eat healthy, get exercise– is simple but not easy
All the old timers in my family who rolled on into their 90′s(my mom just passed at 98)didn’t eat”healthy”,i.e.low fat,high fiber,organic,etc,but they never ate processed foods.Some of the stuff they ate was loaded with fat and salt,but it seemed to be direct from the ground or the slaughterhouse to the pot.My grandmother used chicken fat like it was margarine and she never had heart disease.