Hi, Didier:
What I am wondering is: won't the no-starch diet (the Carol Sinclair version), which encourages an increase in meat/cheese/egg consumption, further increase the risk of heart disease?
My mother died from the combination of smoking and AS at the advanced age of 42: Aortitis, specifically.
There are at least three other heart-related conditions and even more circulatory conditions associated with AS, mostly due to inflammation. It is not unreasonable, if You are a physician and know (or admit to) no other way to reduce inflammation, to recommend NSAIDs--even safer selective types like Celebrex. However we do not know all the risks with this drug, either.
Personally, I have come to believe that bad cholesterols, for example, are produced by our liver in response to the ingestion of starches in quantity and the combination with meat fats causes more vascular constriction than either by itself. In 1918 many of our farm-boy soldiers who died in the Great War had aortic sectioning and it was seen the average blockage was severe--the mean was over 85% and 90% blockage was seen in many. It was thought that the poor meat-and-potatoes diet was the culprit, but that was not ever proven--with any precision.
I believe that the meats which should be increased in NSD are not necessarily 'red' meats, but fish, fowl, and even tofu; keeping beef and other higher-fat meats at the same or even reduced levels.
Bottom line, however, it is important to eliminate the inflammation and if this cannot be achieved through diet, the addition of certain drugs could be warranted: I like Enbrel, sulfasalazine (enteric-coated; Azulfidine-EN), and MTX better than any NSAID; I have a certain FEAR of these drugs because the non-selective type greatly accelerated my disease and this happened because of my improper diet--vegetarian (the LAZY kind who eats way too many grains and processed starches and not enough actual vegetables).
Drugs CAN kill us faster than the AS, but probably will not; but AS will certainly kill us much faster than our diets, especially if we make bad lifestyle choices.
HEALTH,
John