For those that are skeptical about all this, Look into Nitric Oxide. Your veins / arteries produce it as a signaling molecule. When it is produced, your veins

For those that are skeptical about all this, Look into Nitric Oxide. Your veins / arteries produce it as a signaling molecule. When it is produced, your veins (I will use vein to reference both veins and arteries) expand. If you've ever exercised and seen your veins become larger, that is nitric oxide at work. It also clears out the plaque "pockets" or "cysts" that form in your veins. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2050816/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2050816/ If those pockets break open (the very thin inner lining of the vein breaks) and the plaque content gets into your bloodstream, it causes a heart attack because that plaque liquid causes your blood to clot, essentially make a big scab ball in your vein that blood can't get through, effectively depleting all the cells that rely on the blood from getting any oxygen or nutrients, killing the effected cells in minutes / hours if blood flow is not restored. The problem with fat is that is really slows down nitric oxide production. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21903940 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21903940 Because to produce nitric oxide, your veins need a couple ingredients. Lets call them A, B, and C. A + B + C = Nitric Oxide A B and C fit together like a puzzle. Well, fat has a molecule, lets call it D. That can ALSO combine with A and B to produce something else. So picture this: AAAAAA BBBBBBB CCCCCCCCCC DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD If those can randomly form to their produce ABC, or ABD, looking at the quantities above, which are you more likely to have, ABC or ABD? ABD... Which is not nitric oxide... Which is not what we want! This is why eating too much fat is not good. It really harms your arteries because you can't produce the stuff that's needed to clean them out and help them expand properly. Unfortunately, "too much" is a relative term. Considering in this age that 1 table spoon of olive oil is all the oil found in 50 olives... The fat quantities we evolved for are waaaaay too low for what is so readily available now. This is why the MAJORITY of people have atherosclerosis. That is the condition of plaque built up in your veins, which leads to heart attacks, strokes, and your dick not working. P.S. vegetables increase nitric oxide production (because they contain the "C" molecule) P.P.S. you should buy L-Arginine (the "C" molecule) from Amazon http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013OVX3U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0013OVX3U&linkCode=as2&tag=k003f-20 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0013OVX3U/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... (affiliate link, I am thinking of selling it and this post is my MVP sales pitch).