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by Heidi Stevenson
Article Concept by Andrej Oljaca
GreenMedInfo.com
We keep hearing about different types of cholesterol. It’s all nonsense. There’s only one cholesterol molecule, so there’s only one type of cholesterol. What started this nonsense of types of cholesterol?
Just how many types of cholesterol are there? The more we’re indoctrinated with the cholesterol-as-poison […]
Can we jettison misguided and dangerous recommendations on fat and heart disease – please? It’s not often that the mainstream media notices an academic meta-analysis, or study of studies – particularly if it goes against the tide of prevailing dietary advice. But that’s what happened with a recent Australian study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ). The BMJ paper was an update of a previous meta-analysis by the same investigators, looking at the consequences for cardiovascular health of replacing dietary saturated fats (i.e. butter) with polyunsaturated, omega-6 fatty acids (PUFAs). This time around, the group reassessed the results of the Sydney Diet Heart Study (SDHS), a randomized, controlled trial involving 458 patients that compared the rates of cardiovascular disease among subjects who increased the amount of omega-6 PUFAs – specifically, linoleic acid from safflower oil – in their diet with patients who continued their normal diet. As well as reanalyzing the results, the investigators incorporated them into their previous meta-analysis. The SDHS results were clear: replacing dietary saturated fats with omega-6 PUFAs increased all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and mortality from coronary heart disease.
by Lorie Johnson
CBN News
Keeping up with which foods to eat and which ones to avoid could be a full-time job. That’s because scientists continue to learn more about what we put in our bodies.
Some of their latest findings could change your mind about fat.
Twenty years ago, doctors told us to stay away from high-fat […]
Lorie Johnson of CBN interviews Dr. Stephen Sinatra, a veteran cardiologist, who reveals that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease. “Cholesterol is your friend” he states, and has many benefits. He believes processed sugar and carbohydrates are the problem, and advocates eating healthy fats, including coconut oil. The dangers of statin drugs are […]
By Dr. Mercola
Are you still under the impression that cholesterol is a dietary villain and a primary cause of heart disease? And do you avoid eating healthy animal foods like eggs, butter and grass-fed beef because of “high-cholesterol” fears?
It’s time for these pervasive myths to be laid to rest, as when you understand the truth […]
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
There is a growing awareness that the unintended, adverse health effects of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs far outweigh their purported benefits. But now new research indicates that these drugs may even interfere with the heart-protective effects of omega-3 fatty acids in those who are taking them.
A new study published in the journal BMC Medicine is […]
By Dr. Mercola
There’s some serious confusion about cholesterol, and whether high cholesterol levels are responsible for heart disease.
Chris Masterjohn, who recently received his PhD in nutritional sciences from the University of Connecticut, has published five peer-reviewed papers on vitamins and supplementation, and he’s currently researching fat-soluble supplements – A, D, and K – at […]
Health Impact News Editor Comments: Long criticized wrongly as something evil, I am happy to see more positive research being conducted on cholesterol. When the pharmaceutical industry has billions and billions of dollars invested and earned from cholesterol fear, such research can be quite rare. Earlier in 2012 we published research on cholesterol and Alzheimer’s […]
by Dr. John Briffa
The preoccupation the medical and scientific communities have with cholesterol have convinced many of us, doctors included, that ‘cholesterol is bad’ so ‘cholesterol reduction is good’. But, as I’ve pointed out before, even if cholesterol does jeopardise health, the fact that something reduces cholesterol does not make it inherently healthy. Even […]
by Sayer Ji
GreenMedInfo.com
New research flies in the face of a new theory that statin drugs, used to lower cholesterol, may be of value in those suffering from osteoarthritis. To the contrary, statin drugs are likely contributing to the epidemic of knee osteoarthritis in exposed populations.
Symptomatic knee osteoarthritis is quite common in people older than 40 […]
