Are You Full Of Foam Cells?

Key cells in our immune system are called macrophages. Translated literally to "Big Eaters," these macrophages have lives of their own and go where they want and do what they please. In fact, twenty percent of all our cells are mobile are direct themselves to where they are going and what they are doing. Macrophages though are huge and can gobble up dead cells and debris anywhere in your body. They are key to the healing process and key to clearing up infections. I have seen micro-movies showing macrophages each taking in dozens of bacteria per second.
Macrophages though like fat, and if it is readily available, they will go and fill themselves up on it and then hide in sequestered areas of the body. Once full of fat, these macrophages appear foamy or bubbly inside, thus the name "foam cells." Sometimes even creating hidden areas like the plaques in your blood vessels that are called atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. Once they hide in a plaque, they change and they no longer are fighters for the immune system. They now are a problem to the immune system.
So how do you prevent your macrophages from becoming foam cells? Eat a very low fat diet. A diet composed of ten percent fat or less will actually even reverse the accumulation of atheriosclerotic plaques in your arteries. You don't need to have cardiac bypass surgery. You can reverse heart disease with diet alone. Making dietary choices has never been easier than it is today. The fat content of almost all foods is right on the label of the food you buy. So look for foods that are ten percent fat content or less, like the skim milk I buy, which has zero calories from fat. The raspberries I buy are zero percent fat too. It's just that simple. If a food is more than twenty percent fat by total calories, then try to avoid it.
A fatty meal will actually even cloud your blood for many hours with milky white fat. This fat will even stick to the walls of a blood tube and distort your blood results. That's why your doctor has you fast before doing a blood test. Keeping fat globules out of your blood stream is easy and it will keep you from getting heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, and all the other most common diseases causing death today.
Dr. Doug Ikeler http://www.lifeextensionbooks.net/