Sugar, diabetes, the heart

This is borrowed from an advertisement of something to fix the problem. That does not make the following false or incorrect.

Heart disease stems from damage of the arteries, which eventually affect the heart. There is a common myth that high levels of fat in the blood cause cholesterol to begin to stick to the walls of the arteries. However, without arterial wall damage, cholesterol cannot begin to form a "plaque", no matter how high your blood lipids may be.

Every time your blood sugar spikes, it is causing an inflammatory response that damages the lining "wall" of your arteries. LDL particles become trapped behind the damaged lining, causing atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Atherosclerosis is the number one cause of heart disease and stroke.[1] In this stage, plaque continues to build until it ultimately ruptures through the artery wall, forming a clot, which blocks the circulation. This represents a heart attack.

People with pre-diabetes or diabetes can have normal fasting readings yet blood sugars can spike after improper eating.

If you have diabetes or even pre-diabetes, you already know that every time you eat too many carbohydrates at one time you are spiking your blood sugar levels. But what about people who do not know they have pre-diabetes or diabetes and who are told by the doctor that their fasting glucose levels are within a normal range? These people probably don't give that pie ala mode a second thought. What they don't realize is that every day, after a meal they are probably experiencing artery-damaging sugar spikes that far exceed the normal range. Scientific research shows that after-meal spikes in blood sugar are potentially damaging. They not only lead to diabetes and heart disease, but also eye disease, blindness, kidney disease and nerve disease. Studies show that controlling after-meal spikes in blood sugar can help reduce cardiovascular risk

From the book The Hebrew Yeshua vs. the Greek Jesus

Amazon introduction:
An astonishing realization has recently gripped the Christian world: "Jesus Christ" was not a blond-haired, blue-eyed Gentile. Yeshua of Nazareth was raised in an observant Jewish family in a culture where the Torah (five books of Moses) was the National Constitution. Yeshua's teachings, which supposedly form the basis for Western Christianity, are now filtered through 2000 years of traditions born in ignorance of the land, language, and culture of the Bible. The issues over which Yeshua wrestled with the Pharisees are simply not understood by modern Christians; nor are his most important instructions followed by those who claim to be his disciples.


Former Pharisee, Nehemia Gordon, a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar and Semitic language expert, explores the ancient Hebrew text of the Gospel of Matthew from manuscripts long hidden away in the archives of Jewish scribes. Gordon's research reveals that the more "modern" Greek text of Matthew, from which the Western world's versions were translated, depicts "another Jesus" from the Yeshua portrayed in the ancient Hebrew version of Matthew. Gordon explains the life-and-death conflict Yeshua had with the Pharisees as they schemed to grab the reins of Judaism in the first century, and brings that conflict into perspective for both Jew and Christian alike.

The father's friend, discovered

So this lady in church, profession in sales, told of meeting this other salesman. Here's his story:
The salesman's father had served two tours in Vietnam. Between then and now the son had traveled to Europe with a group of young men. They then split up to go their various ways, and this son decided to go to Vietnam to see where his father had been for a couple days. He liked the land, they were friendly, so he decided to stay. He learned the language and worked for the Consulate. When Clinton signed the treaty to get released the Vietnamese soldiers who had been with the South - then imprisoned by the North, he interviewed them to see where they wanted to go. This one guy said he had a friend in America and wanted to go live with him. He didn't know where he was. The friend had given him his journal.
The son looked at it. It was all tattered and such. Then he saw the name on it. It was his father who was the American friend to that Vietnamese prisoner.
The son notified his father, who flew over to Vietnam and brought his friend back with him.