[electroherbalism] Cholesterol: Myths and Truths

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" Chris Gupta " <chrisgupta

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:00:03 -0400

[electroherbalism] Cholesterol: Myths and Truths

 

 

 

 

The following is a excellent summary complied by

<http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Vegetarianism.html>Chris

<http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Vegetarianism.html>Masterjohn

of some of the fallacies believed and propagated

by mainstream medicine. The cash cow statins are

game for just about anything, now even the flu

since

" <http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/drugs/statins2.html>the

virus seems to trigger an overreaction by the

immune system that causes inflammation in the

lungs and other organs, which is exactly the kind

of thing statins are good at taking on. " As usual

much more

<http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2006/01/05/curcumin_for_antioxidant_and_a\

ntiinflammatory_protection.htm>safer

alternatives to reduce inflammation simply escapes these lunatics....

 

Just look at

<http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/11/07/bad_news_about_statin_drugs.ht\

m>Bad

News About Statin Drugs and associated links to

see the absurd risk to benefit ratio of statins.

 

Chris Gupta

http://tinyurl.com/nrzdo

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<http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Cholesterol-Myths.html>Cholesterol:

Myths and Truths

 

Debunking the Myths About Cholesterol

 

The idea that cholesterol is the cause of heart

disease has been repeated so many times over the

last half-century that most people assume it to

be true without a second thought.

 

Now that statins, the cholesterol-lowering drugs,

have begun to bring in a bonanza of profits for

pharmaceutical companies, any new disease that

can be pinned on cholesterol represents a chance

to broaden the scope of profits ever more wide.

 

The result?

<http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Cholesterol-Alzheimers.html>Alzheimer's

disease is now being blamed on cholesterol. Does

the scientific evidence back it up? Or is it just another " cholesterol

myth? "

 

Dr. Ravnskov and The Cholesterol Myths

 

Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD, coined the term

" cholesterol myth " in his 2000 book

<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2 & camp=1789 & tag=wwwmaste\

rjohn-20 & creative=9325 & path=tg/detail/-/0967089700/qid=1123207195/sr=8-1/ref=pd_\

bbs_1?v=glance%26s=books%26n=507846>The

Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That

Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease.

 

Dr. Ravnksov's website on the

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm>cholesterol

myths* details his credentials and summarizes his

fascinating exposure of how nine myths about

saturated fat, cholesterol, and heart disease

came to be established orthodoxy without solid

scientific evidence to back them up.

 

Despite Dr. Ravnskov's credentials, his

meticulous research, and iron-clad arguments, his

book has been so provocative, that it was

literally set on fire on national TV in Finland!

 

Researchers Question the Cholesterol Myths

 

Dr. Ravnskov's ninth cholesterol myth is that all

scientists support the position that dietary

saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart

disease. As Dr. Ravnskov shows, there have always

been dissenters within the scientific community.

One can take a principled stand against the idea

that cholesterol causes heart disease and be in

good scientific standing and in the company of many qualified researchers.

 

Some of the many medical doctors and researcher

who question the relationship between cholesterol

and heart disease and the general negative bias

against cholesterol can be found at the website

of <http://www.thincs.org>THINCS, The

International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics.

 

This section of Cholesterol-And-Health.com is

dedicated to exposing commonly perpetrated myths

about cholesterol, and is fully documented with

research from peer-reviewed journals.

 

Myths About Cholesterol -- Articles

 

The following articles debunk myths about

cholesterol that drug companies would prefer you believe:

 

<http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/The-Cholesterol-Myths.html>Myth:

Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease This Review of

Dr. Uffe Ravnskov's (MD, PhD) The Cholesterol

Myths takes you on a fascinating tour through Dr.

Ravnskov's brilliant expose of shoddy science at

its worst, from the origin of the " diet-heart idea " to the present.

 

<http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Cholesterol-Alzheimers.html>Myth:

Cholesterol Causes Alzheimer's Disease | Part I:

Debunking the Myth Websites push " brain-healthy "

diets based on low-fat, low-cholesterol foods and

researchers celebrate the fact that they are able

to lower brain cholesterol levels with pills. But

does it make any scientific sense? This article

shows how the idea that cholesterol causes

Alzheimer's disease is being perpetuated against

the scientific evidence, and why research shows

that cholesterol is a substance that actually protects your brain.

 

<http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Cause-Of-Alzheimers.html>Myth:

Cholesterol Causes Alzheimer's Disease | Part II:

The

Real<http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Cause-Of-Alzheimers.html>

Causes of Alzheimer's Disease Cholesterol is not

the cause of Alzheimer's disease, and low-fat

diets are not the solution. In fact, the hardcore

science indicates that deficiency of DHA, a

nutrient found in animal fats, and insulin

resistance, caused by a diet excessively high in

carbohydrates, are major contributors to the development of Alzheimers!

 

See also:

<http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2003/12/05/statin_drugs_memory_loss.htm>S\

tatin

Drugs & Memory Loss

 

*Here are the facts! Click on the blue arrows if

you want the scientific evidence!

 

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth1.htm>

1<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth1.htm> Cholesterol

is not a deadly poison, but a substance vital to

the cells of all mammals. There are no such

things as good or bad cholesterol, but mental

stress, physical activity and change of body

weight may influence the level of blood

cholesterol. A high cholesterol is not dangerous

by itself, but may reflect an unhealthy

condition, or it may be totally innocent.

 

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth2.htm> 2 A high blood

cholesterol is said to promote atherosclerosis

and thus also coronary heart disease. But many

studies have shown that people whose blood

cholesterol is low become just as atherosclerotic

as people whose cholesterol is high.

 

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth3.htm>

3<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth3.htm> Your body

produces three to four times more cholesterol

than you eat. The production of cholesterol

increases when you eat little cholesterol and

decreases when you eat much. This explains why

the " prudent " diet cannot lower cholesterol more

than on average a few per cent.

 

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth4.htm>

4<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth4.htm> There is no

evidence that too much animal fat and cholesterol

in the diet promotes atherosclerosis or heart

attacks. For instance, more than twenty studies

have shown that people who have had a heart

attack haven't eaten more fat of any kind than

other people, and degree of atherosclerosis at

autopsy is unrelated with the diet.

 

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth5.htm> 5 The only

effective way to lower cholesterol is with drugs,

but neither heart mortality or total mortality

have been improved with drugs the effect of which

is cholesterol-lowering only. On the contrary,

these drugs are dangerous to your health and may shorten your life.

 

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth6.htm>

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth6.htm>6<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth6.htm>

The new cholesterol-lowering drugs, the statins,

do prevent cardio-vascular disease, but this is

due to other mechanisms than

cholesterol-lowering. Unfortunately, they also

stimulate cancer in rodents, disturb the

functions of the muscles, the heart and the brain

and pregnant women taking statins may give birth

to children with malformations more severe than those seen after

thalidomide.

 

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth7.htm>

7<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth7.htm> Many of

these facts have been presented in scientific

journals and books for decades but are rarely

told to the public by the proponents of the diet-heart idea.

 

<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth8.htm>

8<http://www.ravnskov.nu/myth8.htm> The reason

why laymen, doctors and most scientists have been

misled is because opposing and disagreeing

results are systematically ignored or misquoted in the scientific press.

 

<http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/benefits_cholest.html>

9<http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/benefits_cholest.html>

The Benefits Of High Cholesterol

 

Do you want to know more? Read Dr. Ravnskov's

book

<http://www.newtrendspublishing.com/Ravnskov/index.html> " The

Cholesterol Myths " . This is an updated and

greatly extended version of this site. In

addition to the subjects mentioned above, you can read about

 

....the many unsuccesful cholesterol-lowering experiments,

....the meaningless animal experiments,

....familial hypercholesterolemia and why you

shouldn´t bother too much about it,

....the myths about triglycerides,

....the dangers associated with an overconsumption of polyunsaturated oils,

....the illogicalities around the Mediterranean diet,

....the fallacies of Dr. Ornish´s life-style trial,

 

....and

much more

 

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