Facts about Cholesterol

Facts about Cholesterol

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1   Cholesterol is vital to cell health. A high cholesterol is not dangerous by itself.

2    Scientific studies show that people with low blood cholesterol have as much atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease as people with high cholesterol.

3   The human body produces most its cholesterol. Diet has little influence.

4 No evidence exists to show that animal fat and dietary cholesterol cause heart attacks. Plaque formation seen at autopsy is unrelated to dietary cholesterol or fat.

5    Drugs that lower cholesterol do not lower the overall death rate significantly. In fact, cholesterol lowering drugs may shorten life.

6   Statin drugs may reduce heart disease somewhat, but that is the result of other mechanisms unrelated to cholesterol. Unfortunately, they may also stimulate cancer, cause muscle damage and birth defects.

7 The effect of cholesterol on cardiovascular disease is widely discredited in scientific journals and text books.

8   Companies that market statin drugs choose to ignore the scientific evidence. The public is deceived.

9  Higher Cholesterol has many benefits: 1) People with high cholesterol live the longest. 2) Studies show that low cholesterol is in certain respects worse than high cholesterol. 3) Cholesterol protects against infection. 4) People with low cholesterol die younger.

The above facts do not apply to a small group of people (approximate incidence 0.2%) who inherit a familial type of genetic mutation causing very high cholesterols levels (usually greater than 400 mg/dL), with fatty deposits in the skin and tendons (xanthomas), and family history of premature death.

Click below here for three highly recommended books:

The Cholesterol Myths : Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease, by Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD

Malignant Medical Myths: Why Medical Treatment Causes 200,000 Deaths in the USA each Year, and How to Protect Yourself, by Joel M. Kauffman, Ph.D.

Lipitor: Thief of Memory, Statin Drugs and the Misguided War on Cholesterol.
by Duane Graveline, M.D, M.P.H

Click here to link to scientists who agree with the above facts

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