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Originally Posted by AutoBike
Almost all of my father's immediate family died of heart attacks by age 50. They lived in different areas and had differing diets when they died.
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Having differing diets could mean anything. Some ate jelly donuts, some ate cream filled donuts, while others ate plain donuts? In what significant way were their diets different?
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Contrast that with my mother's immediate family that are all still alive at almost 90, living in different areas and having differing diets. Of course, my mother and father shared the same diet, up until he died at age 46. She's 87 now.
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The last time we talked about this I mentioned the fact that Dr. Dean Ornish has stated, in one of his books, that some people have more cholesterol receptors than others. In that case, if everyone eats a high protein, high fat, high cholesterol diet, those who have lots of receptors may avoid getting heart disease and those who have too few will likely develop heart disease. But there are many other degenerative diseases caused by a high protein, high fat, high cholesterol diet. So you likely raise your risk for one thing or another by eating such a diet.