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Here comes the rain - again: Britain battered as high tides cause more flooding

A fresh bout of flooding has caused more woes in the south and west of the UK. As the never-ending storm continues lethal waves are expected to batter the coast. Waves of up to 27ft have been recorded off Land's End, Cornwall. After high tides, heavy rain and strong winds flooded homes more severe weather is expected. The violent storm moving in from the Atlantic has brought travel chaos as commuters return to work after Christmas.

A giant wave crashes onto the promenade in Aberystwyth, Wales. (Reuters)

Shocked residents survey the scene in Aberystwyth - which looks like the aftermath of an explosion. Residents were asked to evacuate properties over the weekend due to the high tides and flood warnings. (REX)

Monstrous waves break on Porthcawl harbour, South Wales, watched by curious onlookers. (Ben Birchall/PA Wire)

Large sections of the promenade in Aberystwyth has been washed away by the sea. Concrete and paving stones have been dismantled and pounded into pieces while railings have been uprooted. Waves as high as 6ft left a blanket of debris and sand where the promenade once stood. (Photo by REX)

This 4ft emergency barrier was all that stood between residents of Avon Crescent, Bristol, and the encroaching River Avon. Many had moved their possessions upstairs as a precaution against possible flooding. Despite fears the water would break the barrier and flood the street the blockade, made in Sweden, held firm. (SWNS)

Sea spray thrown up by tumultuous waves conceals the harbour wall in Portstewart, Northern Ireland, from view. (Reuters)

Huge waves crash over the tops of houses at Lahinch, County Clare, Ireland. (London News Pictures/Rex)

Black storm clouds roll above the seafront at Falmouth, Cornwall, just after sunset. (SWNS)

A hotel on the promenade in Aberystwyth has taken the precaution of boarding up the ground floor windows. Concrete slabs are covered with a thick layer of sand thanks to the high tide. (Reuters/Rebecca Naden

Strong waves have gouged out a chasm from a section of the promenade in Aberystwyth. Authorities fear the structure could collapse into the sea at any time. (London News Pictures/Rex)

The A487 main road between Haverfordwest and St David's in Pembrokeshire is closed after a mountain of pebbles was dumped on the tarmac after the storms threw up ferocious waves. (Reuters)

Flood water smashes through a wall in Langport, Somerset. (SWNS)

For some the strong winds means rough waves - and an exciting ride. A windsurfer enjoys the stormy conditions and muddy seas off of Mudeford beach in Dorset. (Andrew Matthews/PA Wire)

Sandbags are placed in front of a property on the seafront at Lynmouth in North Devon, England. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Waves crash against the railway embankment as a train edges along the coast at Saltcoats in Scotland. (PA)

Waves crash against Clevedon seafront, North Somerset. (SWNS)

During holiday season tourists enjoy the hot weather and sun as they paddle at the Plymouth Tinsdie Lido in Devon. But the view changed dramatically just a few months later...

The popular outdoor pool in Plymouth has disappeared under sea water in a picture taken January 3. The raised steps surrounding the pool have been engulfed in the flood and just the top of the water feature in the centre can be seen. (SWNS)

A road in Amroth, West Wales, has fallen into the sea after being repeatedly hit and eroded by the strong waves. (Rex)

In Harpingden, Hertfordshire, a freak hail storm lasting less than a minute covered this street in balls of ice. (Catriona Wightman/ Twitter)

Waves crash over the promenade at hightide in Saundersfoot, in west Wales in the early morning of January 3. (Reuters/Rebecca Naden)

High seas batter the Cobb at Lyme Regis, Dorset. (SWNS)

A car drives through flood water created by the River Mole bursting its banks at Jacobs Well, Surrey. (London News Pictures/REX)

Waves of up to 10m are expected to hit Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Residents of coastal towns have been warned to stay away from visiting the seafront to inspect the waves as it can be dangerous. (SWNS)

Council workers place sand bags on Plymouth's famous Mayflower Steps in the early hours of morning to prevent flooding. (SWNS)

Two children play by the Clevedon seafront in North Somerset, as waves crash against the railings. The Environment Agency issued severe flood warnings - meaning there is a danger to life. (SWNS)

Huge waves batter the seafront at Porthcawl in South Wales. The Met Office has also warned of wind and rain in Scotland and Northern Ireland. High tides are expected in Northern Ireland and residents of Belfast have been warned that parts of the city could be evacuated due to flooding. (SWNS)

A sunny day in Gloucestershire but heavy rain over the New Year have caused the River Severn to break it's banks near Tewkesbury Abbey. (SWNS)

A flooded street in Salcombe, Devon. The worst of the severe weather is expected to affect Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Wales. (SWNS)

Strong winds and a tidal surge cause waves to crash down on Plymouth's historic waterfront. The Environment Agency has warned flooding could endanger lives. (SWNS)

Without inflammation, cholesterol won't accumulate in bloodvessel walls and cause heart disease• Posted by Dr. Darius Homi Umrigar MD (AM) on May 21, 2010 at 9:49am• Send Message View Dr. Darius Homi Umrigar MD (AM)'s blogWithout inflammation, cholesterol won't accumulate in blood vessel walls and cause heart diseaseHeart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake!All Physicians with all the training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong.So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries,today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled "opinion makers."Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted fromthe simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol. The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake.The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.It Is Not Working!These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year. Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended.It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's natural defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the bodyto injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation.Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial. What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully. The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease,stroke, diabetes and obesity.Let me repeat that. The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine. What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. you kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causingthe body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades.These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone. How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your bloodsugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels. While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there.I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator — inflammation in their arteries.Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean.Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life.While omega-6’s are essential –they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell — they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s. If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimaland healthy.To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated.There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils. There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables.Cut down on or eliminate inflammation-causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them. One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled polyunsaturated.Forget the "science" that has been drummed into your head for decades.The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent.The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak.Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today. The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation.Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in yourarteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.Dr Darius H Umrigar

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