$29 Billion Reasons to Lie about Cholesterol: Making Profit by Turning Healthy People Into PatientsJustin Smith, 2009 - 218 pagini Everywhere we look we are told that high cholesterol levels cause heart disease. Millions of people who consider themselves to be healthy are being told that they have 'high' cholesterol and they need to take a cholesterol-lowering drug everyday for the rest of their lives. Millions more people are avoiding foods that contain saturated fat and cholesterol. However, the reality is that most people do not need to lower their cholesterol. In fact - More people die of heart disease with low cholesterol than high cholesterol - Most people who have a heart attack have an average cholesterol level $29 Billion Reasons to Lie about Cholesterol provides unequivocal evidence to show that the idea cholesterol causes heart disease is false. We have been made to worry about cholesterol for the sole purpose of sustaining a cholesterol-lowering industry that generates at least $29 billion each year. |
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The Essential Guide to Fats | 1 |
Ignorance Is Bliss | 7 |
More Grains More Trouble | 16 |
Different People Different Diets | 41 |
Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease Impossible | 57 |
Dietary Cholesterol and Saturated Fat | 72 |
Lowering Cholesterol Is it a Good Idea? | 82 |
Medicate the Masses | 97 |
Safety of Statins | 129 |
New Perspectives on Heart Disease | 137 |
More on Glucose Diabetes and Heart Disease | 153 |
Cholesterol Drugs on Trial | 165 |
CholesterolLowering Margarines | 175 |
Quick Reference Guide to Natural Food | 185 |
References | 189 |
Index 217 | 191 |
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