cholesterol and heart disease

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Another good article from Dr. Kendrick on cholesterol.

AALCOLM KENDRICK, MD

November 28, 2002

WHY THE CHOLESTEROL-HEART DISEASE THEORY IS WRONG

Find A Long-Term Study Showing That A High Cholesterol Or Saturated Fat Diet

Has Any Impact On Blood Cholesterol Levels In A Normal Healthy Population -

Or Any Effect Whatsoever On The Rate Of Death From Coronary Heart Disease

By Malcolm Kendrick MbChB, MRCGP (email - malcolm@... )

Cholesterol is a much maligned substance, the ‘cause’ of heart disease. If

it is, it must have killed billions of people. Far more than the plague,

every war ever fought, and all plane, train and car crashes ever - all added

together, then multiplied by three.

But if it does cause heart disease, how does it do it? The simple ‘answer’

is that, if you eat too much cholesterol, the level in your blood rises, the

cholesterol then travels through the artery wall causing cholesterol-laden

plaques to develop which then rupture and kill you. That’s the initial

cholesterol hypothesis. Dead simple, couldn’t be more simple.

First little problem - dietary intake of cholesterol has no impact on the

level of cholesterol in your blood. If we look at two major long-term

studies, Framingham and Tecumseh, it is clear that those who ate the most

cholesterol had exactly the same level of cholesterol in their blood as those

who ate the least cholesterol.

For the rest of the article go to:

www.redflagsweekly.com/kendrick/2002_nov28.html

Namaste, Liz