Cholesterol Doesn't Cause Heart Disease


'The people with the highest cholesterol live the longest. It's a point that's generally ignored in modern medicine, but it is a fact. A huge industry in statins constantly promulgates the opposite notion, and has done such a good job that doctors routinely have people's cholesterol levels checked on a regular basis. They don't question the ever-lowering so-called healthy cholesterol levels, or the variations continually tacked on to the theory: It isn't total cholesterol that matters, it's HDL that counts. Well, no, actually it's the ratio of HDL to LDL cholesterol. Hmmm...the latest research shows that it's oxidized LDL that does the harm.

It's all bunk.'

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'You are all no doubt acquainted with the popular hypothesis on cholesterol and heart disease. It has two parts: first, that eating cholesterol in the diet raises cholesterol levels in the blood; and two, that high cholesterol levels in the blood cause heart disease.

You might be surprised to learn that neither of these statements is true. The first one is relatively easy to dispatch. In the Framingham Heart Study, which is the longest-running and perhaps most significant study on heart disease done to date, it was demonstrated that intake of cholesterol in the diet had absolutely no correlation with heart disease. If you look at the graph below, you’ll see that both men and women with above average intake of cholesterol had nearly identical rates of heart disease as men and women with below average intake of cholesterol.'

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