Tattoos from Paradise or The Heart Revolution

Tattoos from Paradise: Traditional Polynesian Patterns

Author: Mark Blackburn

Traditional tattooing designs are depicted from the exotic Pacific Polynesian cultures of Easter Island, Hawaii, the Marquesas, New Zealand, Samoa, Tahiti and Tonga. The actual process and ceremonies involved in tattooing are described and illustrated with over 250 drawings and color illustrations of native people. Included are actual 19th century photographs as well as early exploration art, paintings, drawings, engravings, and artifacts all relating to tattooing.

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The Heart Revolution: The B Vitamin Breakthrough That Lowers Homocysteine, Cuts Your Risk of Heart Disease, and Protects Your Health

Author: Kilmer S McCully

A safe, effective, and revolutionary program for lowering homocysteine levels and cutting your risk of heart disease

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Kilmer S. McCully explains what is really behind the epidemic of heart disease. For many years, clogged arteries have been inaccurately viewed as the cause, rather than a symptom, of heart disease. Now, McCully shows you how to cut your risk of heart disease by controlling the real culprit, homocysteine. Considered one of the most significant medical breakthroughs in recent years, McCully's findings have been validated by numerous large-scale studies. The Heart Revolution:

• Challenges the long-held assumption that lowering cholesterol is the key to preventing heart disease

• Explains how eating vitamin B-rich food can control homocysteine levels

• Lays out a plan with menus for putting more B vitamins in our diet

• Discusses how food processing and additives compromise our health

• Explains how costly cholesterol-lowering medicines can actually harm our health

Eat Your Way to a Healthy Heart

Pork Chops with Potatoes and Onions, Veal with Wine and Mushrooms, Guacamole, Omelettes. This is not your typical diet program. Dr. McCully offers real food choices with fresh ingredients available just about everywhere. The focus is on delicious foods that will leave you satisfied. The purpose is to make sure you're getting enough of the vitamins needed to prevent heart disease—B6, B12, and folic acid, as well as essential, phytochemicals, fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and essential oils. It's easyto follow this plan as it relies on foods you want to eat with little preparation time and tons of variety.

What People Are Saying

Stanley Krippner
Eat your way to a healthier heart!

Heart disease is the number one killer in America, and the widespread belief is that it is caused by a diet high in fat and cholesterol. Why do many heart attack victims have "normal" cholesterol levels? Why do the French, who love foie gras and red wine, rarely develop heart disease? How is it that the native people of Greenland and the Masai of Africa, whose diets consists largely of animal fat, have almost no heart disease?

For eighty-five years, the cholesterol theory of heart disease reigned supreme. But it has never been scientifically proven that fats and cholesterol cause arteriosclerosis or that lowering the amount of fat and cholesterol in our diets will reduce our risk of developing heart disease.

In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Kilmer McCully explains what is really behind the epidemic of heart disease. The Harvard-trained physician and researcher reveals how the vitamin B deficiency in our Western diet has produced harmful blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid produced in the body. Homocysteine damages the arteries, leaving them susceptible to cholesterol and fat deposits. For many years clogged arteries have been inaccurately viewed as the cause, rather than the symptom , of heart disease. Now McCully shows you how to cut your risk of heart disease by controlling the real culprit, homocysteine. Considered one of the most significant medical breakthroughs in recent years, McCully's findings have been validated by numerous large-scale studies.

The Heart Revolution:

challenged the long-held assumptions that lowering cholesterol is the key to preventing heart disease

explains how eating vitamin B-rich food can control homocysteine levels

lays pout a plan with menus for putting more B vitamins in our diet

discusses how food processing and additives compromise our health

exposes the politics within the medical community and the pharmaceutical industry

explains how costly cholesterol-lowering medicines can actually harm our health

In the 1970s, pharmaceutical houses were making huge profits on cholesterol-lowering drugs. When McCully dared to challenge the prevailing view that cholesterol caused heart disease, he was castigated by his peers. Thirty years later he has received international recognition for the very same work. The Heart Revolution is more than a revolutionary program for disease prevention, it is also an intriguing tale of medical discovery.

Kilmer McCully
From a barnesandnoble.com e-nnouncement

Good news for Americans trying to cut their risk of heart disease but tired of rigid fat-free dietary regimens! Cholesterol and clogged arteries are NOT the culprits of heart disease, but rather the symptoms. The real culprit is homocysteine -- an amino acid that builds up in the body due to a nutritional deficiency of vitamins B6, folic acid, and B12, the very nutrients lacking in the classic Western diet. This controversial link between homocysteine and heart disease was first proposed by a Harvard-trained physician, Dr. Kilmer McCully, over 30 years ago, but has only recently been corroborated by large scale studies. Dr. McCully's breakthrough book THE HEART REVOLUTION: THE VITAMIN B BREAKTHROUGH THAT LOWERS HOMOCYSTEINE LEVELS, CUTS YOUR RISK OF HEART DISEASE, AND PROTECTS YOUR HEALTH should change the course of heart disease in this country and help Americans cut their risk of heart attacks without dangerous cholesterol-lowering drugs. Read an exclusive essay written for barnesandnoble.com by Dr. McCully below.

The Heart Revolution by Dr. Kilmer McCully

Thirty years ago, I discovered that cholesterol and clogged arteries are not the culprits but rather the symptoms of heart disease, the No. 1 killer of people in this country. But powerful pharmaceutical houses, making huge profits on cholesterol-lowering drugs, scorned my theories and forced me out of my research positions at Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital.

Castigated by my peers but still believing in my work, I began the long fight to prove my theories, and my findings have recently been corroborated by large-scale studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine and other publications. In my new book, THE HEART REVOLUTION: THE B VITAMIN BREAKTHROUGH THAT LOWERS HOMOCYSTEINE LEVELS, CUTS YOUR RISK OF HEART DISEASE, AND PROTECTS YOUR HEALTH, I share everything I've learned about homocysteine, how dangerous levels of homocysteine can be lowered simply by making minor modifications in your diet.

Most people who get heart disease have normal cholesterol levels in their blood. Even if your cholesterol goes down, your homocysteine may be high, meaning that your are still at risk. It's a matter of life and death that we control the level of homocysteine in our blood.

The link between homocysteine -- an amino acid that accumulates in the blood -- and heart disease was proposed by me in 1968, and now I've synthesize my findings for you, explaining the science behind my theories and laying out a safe and effective plan that shows you how to:

* Cut your risk of heart attack -- without -- dangerous cholesterol-lowering drugs

* Stop arteriosclerosis in its tracks -- and perhaps reverse moderate heart disease

* Add B vitamins to your diet, simply and deliciously, thereby lowering homocysteine levels

To keep homocysteine levels down, regardless of age or gender, you should:

* Eat more fresh vegetables and fruits daily to get 400 micrograms of folic acid, 3 milligrams of B6, and other beneficial nutrients

* Avoid canned or irradiated vegetables

* Steam fresh vegetables with a minimum amount of water

* Eat steel-cut oatmeal, whole-wheat cereal, brown rice, and root vegetables

* Eliminate white flour, white rice, and refined sugar

* Eat one to two servings of fresh fish, meat or eggs per day

* A couple of times a month, have liver or pate de foie gras -- rich sources of Vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid

* Consume 30 percent of calories in the form of beneficial fats to get the necessary fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K.

* Eliminate processed and packaged foods that contain powdered eggs, powdered milk, and partially hydrogenated oils.

Homocysteine was called one of the top-ten most important news stories of 1998 by Journal Watch, a publication of The New England Journal of Medicine, and THE HEART REVOLUTION provides you with the lowdown on it and a hands-on, easy-to-follow dietary program that addresses not only the foods we eat but also additives, contaminants, and preservatives and their relationship to homocysteine build-up and heart disease. I show why we don't get enough of the nutrients we need, and also challenge the proponents of the food pyramid, food manufacturers, food processors, and drug companies. Did you know that bagels are not healthy? Because they are made with refined flour, they provide none of the essential nutrients you need to be healthy. And vegetables that have been canned have lost up to 80 percent of their health benefits! When you go out to dinner and eat the bread in the bread basket with no butter and have pasta and then finish with the angel food cake, you feel pretty good about yourself for eating well and not indulging in fattier, less healthy foods. But the food you ate has little to no health benefit because all of the nutrients have been refined away from the white bread, the plain pasta, and the cake made from a box mix.

By reexamining the cholesterol hypothesis as myth, THE HEART REVOLUTION presents a new way of looking at our diets and provides a new understanding of the underlying cause of heart disease and other degenerative diseases associated with aging.