Lowering Cholesterol

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Hi Jeff,

 

It is hydrogenated fat (or trans fat) that causes heart disease, not

animal fat (Note: Information about the connection between

hydrogenated fat and heart disease may be found on the Weston A.

Price Foundation Web site. An article called “The Oiling of America”

provides a lot of background details, www.westonaprice.org/

knowyourfats/oiling.html).

 

Twentieth century cardiovascular disease is the reason we have been

told to eat low-fat foods. A close look at government health data

reveals that myocardial infarction (MI), a blood clot leading to an

obstruction of the coronary artery, was almost nonexistent in 1910.

Between 1910 and 1990, the total number of deaths per year from

coronary heart disease in the United States climbed to almost one

million. For the last several decades, Americans have been told that

butter is bad and vegetable oil is good—especially hydrogenated

vegetable oil (Note: hydrogenated vegetable oil is another name for

trans fat).

 

The companies that make vegetable oil are a powerful force behind the

cholesterol myth. The low-fat marketing/public relations campaign

originated with the vegetable oil industry.

 

Fats are an extremely complex subject—and many of the details are

deliberately left unexplained. Very little press coverage, with the

exception of the recent New York Times articles (See: list of recent

articles from the NYTimes below), is devoted to this subject. Most

Americans are on a runaway train and they have fallen into a serious

health trap. As authors Sally Fallon and Mary Enig point out in “The

Oiling of America:”

 

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Saturated fats are necessary for healthy bones, provide energy and

structural integrity to the cells, protect the liver and enhance the

body’s use of essential fatty acids. Stearic acid, found in beef

tallow and butter, has cholesterol lowering properties and is a

preferred food for the heart. As saturated fats are stable, they do

not become rancid easily, do not call upon the body’s reserves of

antioxidants, do not initiate cancer, do not irritate the artery walls.

 

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Doctors John Foster, M.D., Patricia Kane, Ph.D. and Neal Speight,

M.D., who wrote The Detoxx Book: Detoxification of Biotoxins in

Chronic Neurotoxic Syndromes, explain that fifty percent of every

cell membrane is made of saturated fat.

 

Cholesterol is so important to every cell that depriving the body of

fat robs the body of an important precursor to:

 

• Vital corticosteroids

 

• Hormones that help us deal with stress and protect the body against

heart disease and cancer

 

• Sex hormones like androgen, testosterone, estrogen and progesterone

 

• Vitamin D, a vital fat-soluble vitamin needed for healthy bones and

nervous system, proper growth, mineral metabolism, muscle tone,

insulin production, reproduction and immune system function

 

• Bile salts, which are vital for digestion and assimilation of fats

in the diet.

 

 

 

Besides the vegetable oil industry, several other industries benefit

from the cholesterol myth:

 

• Butter, Cream and Other Derivative Dairy Products

 

Milk is separated into a variety of products that represent an

additional revenue stream.

 

• Statins and Stents

 

Statins are the biggest selling category of drugs (Science Daily,

Jan. 18, 2007 and New York Times, January 17, 2008) and Abbott

Laboratories’ new absorbable stent is a $5 billion dollar business

(Fast Company Magazine, February, 2008).

 

Finding corroborating evidence that fat is healthy is not an easy

task. Medical training and medical continuing education have been

financed by the pharmaceutical companies.

 

Occasionally, the truth about saturated fat and hydrogenated fat

surfaces. The articles that emerged in the New York Times from

October 2007 to January 2008 are an example. Dr. William Castelli’s

comments are another example. Castelli is a former director of the

sixty year-old Framingham Heart Study. The Framingham Heart Study,

under the direction of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

and in collaboration with Boston University, is one of the largest

studies that contradicts the diet-cholesterol-coronary heart disease

theory. Although Framingham study director Dr. William Kannel made

the claim in the early 1980s that “total plasma cholesterol is a

powerful predictor of death related to coronary heart disease,” a

decade later in 1992, director Dr. William Castelli, admitted in an

article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine:

 

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In Framingham, Massachusetts, the more saturated fat one ate, the

more cholesterol one ate, the more calories one ate, the lower the

person’s serum cholesterol…

 

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The nutrition information that is provided by government and academia

is subject to the same biased information that is supplied to medical

doctors and the food industry. Marion Nestle, who is a professor of

nutrition and food studies at New York University, explains this in

her book, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition,

and Health. She says, “the food industry—through lobbying,

advertising, and the co-opting of experts—influences our dietary

choices.” She also says that government nutritional advice is watered

down when a message might threaten industry sales.

 

 

Recent articles about cholesterol:

“Diet and Fat: A Severe Care of Mistaken Consensus” John Tierney, New

York Times, October 9, 2007

 

“Study Deals Setback to Cholesterol Drug” Ron Winslow and Sarah

Rubenstein, The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2008

 

“Cholesterol As a Danger Has Skeptics” Alex Berenson, New York Times,

January 17, 2008

 

“What the Cholesterol Trial Showed and What It Didn’t” Tara Parker-

Pope, New York Times, January 22, 2008

 

“What’s Cholesterol Got to Do With It?” Gary Taubes, New York Times,

January 27, 2008

 

Note: In December, 2006, New York City’s Board of Health voted to

ban the use of frying oils containing trans fats by July 2007 and all

trans fats by July 2008.

 

Mary Jo

 

 

 

Lowering Cholesterol

 

Posted by: " Jeff Donald " jeffdonald386 jeffdonald386

Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:32 pm (PDT)

 

Anyone know a way, that is effective, to lower cholesterol without

using meds? Thanks, Jeff

 

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[Guest guest]

For some reason thecureforheartdisease.com won’t come

up when I try it. Instead this site keeps popping up:

 

 

http://practicingmedicinewithoutalicense.com/

 

 

Is this something different? I didn’t read through it

cause I wasn’t sure if it was the info. you were recommending.

 

I’m very interested in this subject. My husband had a

heart attach at 39, and his ratios of LDL to HDL, etc (according to Mercola’s

recommendations and others) are still off. They have improved some since he

started exercising regularly, because his HDL has increased. That makes his

total cholest. Higher which of course they want him back on lipitor. He

stopped taking it cause his joints were aching from it. The weird thing it did

was make his LDL go way way low, and did not affect the HDL or triglycerides –they

were trying to get his total to 140!!!

 

 

[Guest guest]

The founder of the Vitamin C Foundation, Owen Fonorrow owns

thecureforheartdisease.com website. He also just completed the first

volume of a book entitled, Practicing Medicine Without a License. I

guess he must have taken thecureforheartdisease.com website down and

had it replaced with the name of his book. You might want to go to the

Vitamin C Foundation website and post your question there. Josephine

 

P.S. Reducing your cholesterol to 140 IS TOO LOW. The body and brain

must have cholesterol to function normally. Too bad the doctors are

that brainwashed that they don't care about the serious long term side

effects of depriving the body of much need cholesterol. 50% of those

with " normal " cholesterol levels STILL GET HEART ATTACKS. Cholesterol

is not the cause of plaque build up in the arteries.

 

 

 

<tmcclintick wrote:

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> For some reason thecureforheartdisease.com won't come up when I try it.

> Instead this site keeps popping up:

>

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> http://practicingmedicinewithoutalicense.com/

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>

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> Is this something different? I didn't read through it cause I

wasn't sure

> if it was the info. you were recommending.

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> I'm very interested in this subject. My husband had a heart attach

at 39,

> and his ratios of LDL to HDL, etc (according to Mercola's

recommendations

> and others) are still off. They have improved some since he started

> exercising regularly, because his HDL has increased. That makes his

total

> cholest. Higher which of course they want him back on lipitor. He

stopped

> taking it cause his joints were aching from it. The weird thing it

did was

> make his LDL go way way low, and did not affect the HDL or triglycerides

> -they were trying to get his total to 140!!!

>

[Guest guest]

Try this page

 

http://thecureforheartdisease.net/bio.php

At 08:56 PM 14/04/2008, you wrote:

 

For some reason

thecureforheartdisease.com won’t come up when I try it. Instead

this site keeps popping up:

 

http://practicingmedicinewithoutalicense.com/

 

Is this something different? I didn’t read through it cause I

wasn’t sure if it was the info. you were recommending.

 

I’m very interested in this subject. My husband had a heart attach at 39,

and his ratios of LDL to HDL, etc (according to Mercola’s recommendations

and others) are still off. They have improved some since he started

exercising regularly, because his HDL has increased. That makes his

total cholest. Higher which of course they want him back on

lipitor. He stopped taking it cause his joints were aching from

it. The weird thing it did was make his LDL go way way low, and did

not affect the HDL or triglycerides –they were trying to get his total to

140!!!

 

 

 

 

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Hola!

I´ve been diagnosed with pathologic cholesterol in June 2007. I was 50

years old, vegetarian since 1985, non smoker and non drinker absolute.

Good physical fitness...I was appaled. So, I radically cut from my diet

ALL diary products and eggs, then reading and screening carefully all

the labels of the groceries I would buy to fence off any trace of

cholesterol. 6 months later, I checked my blood again and, BINGO, it´s

high but below the danger zone! I still am cautious with cholesterol

borne food but I enjoy cheese anytime I want, without any problem. Go

natural, go with what your body tells you!

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I understand increasing carrot intake and sunshine does help too

 

Jane

 

 

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I´ve been diagnosed with pathologic cholesterol in June 2007. I was 50

years old, vegetarian since 1985, non smoker and non drinker absolute.

Good physical fitness...