Heart Disease In Norway From 1927-1948
Germany took over the low countries of Holland and Belgium, and occupied Denmark and Norway. Characteristically their troops took away their livestock—their cattle, their sheep, their goats, their pigs, their chickens. These populations were now subsisting on plant-based nutrition, and lo and behold, what do you think happened? Let’s look at Norway and the deaths from heart attack and stroke.
If we look here at 1927, 1930, and 1935, they are going up and up and up. In 1939, here theycome—the Germans, the greatest public health officers that Norway has ever seen. Suddenly, in 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943—if the Germans had stayed any longer they would have totally obliterated all the cardiovascular disease in Norway. When have we ever seen a population with this degree of plummeting of disease because of a statin? When have we ever seen this plummeting of disease in a population when there has been angioplasty or stents or coronary artery bypass surgery? No, the most powerful thing of all that ever happened in the Westernized nation was when suddenly, perhaps not with their own blessing, they went plant-based, and profound things occurred. Look what happened in 1945. Cessation of hostilities, bingo, we are going back up. It is so powerful that Neil Picard, a pathologist in Belgium, was telling his students at the autopsy table, “See this plaque in these coronary arteries, we didn’t see this during the war years. They weren’t there.”