Cholesterol scam: Disinformation slowly unraveling among health professionals
by Paul Fassa
(NaturalNews) The idea of cholesterol creating cardiac problems has caused obsessive cholesterol count blood testing for decades. another outcome of this scare was obsessively avoiding fat, especially saturated fats. The food industry responded with low and no fat foods from milk to cottage cheese and more. processed foods promoted their low or no fat contents as though they were the healthiest foods in the freezer.
Healthy fats such as coconut oil and palm oil were spurned and replaced by very unhealthy trans-fat, processed and heated cooking oils. relatively healthy whole butters were replaced by plastic margarines.
However, this myth of cholesterol dangers lurking in saturated fats waiting to clog your arteries and cause you to die of cardiac arrest is beginning to unravel.
Unraveling the myth of cholesterol
A meta-analysis of correctly carried out previous studies on heart health and saturated fats concluded there was Camiseta Sanfrecce Hiroshima no association between cardiac issues and saturated fats. This was published in the American Journal of medical Nutrition (AJCN) on January 13th, 2010. (1)
Meta-analysis is a statistical method of proving or disproving varied epidemiological studies within a set topic. The AJCN meta-analysis covered studies involving 350,000 subjects who were followed for 5 to 23 years.
The trend set by the saturated fat high cholesterol disinformation a few decades ago has resulted in numerous Americans eating less fat and showing lower blood cholesterol levels. Yet, heart disease rates have continued to rise along with diabetes, pre-diabetes and obesity. (1)
Dr. William Davis discusses in his short article “A headline You will never See: 60 Year Old man Dies of Cholesterol” that cholesterol doesn’t kill “any much more than a bad paint job on your Camiseta Selección de fútbol de Irán automobile could cause a fatal automobile accident.” (1)
He discusses the cause of many heart attacks and coronary problems is atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary arteries, which can build up and rupture or clog the arteries. He goes on to describe other elements that can cause plaque ruptures, including inflammatory pneumonia.
Though there can be some cholesterol in the plaque, cholesterol itself is waxy and pliable. Cholesterol is essential for brain cells, nerves and other cellular structural components. Calcium deposits (calcification) in artery interiors are much worse components of plaque. It belongs in your bones and not in your arteries. Vitamin K2 helps transport calcium out of your blood and into your bones.
Dr. Davis recommends avoiding cholesterol panels for heart health issues and choosing a measure of coronary atherosclerotic plaque.
The scam continues despite overwhelming contradictory evidence
Despite much more and much more published journals and doctors proving coronary heart disease (CHD) is not caused by high saturated fat diets and cholesterol, the myth persists. numerous peoplewith low cholesterol have died of CHD while in their 40s, while numerous with high cholesterol never have CHD issues.
Several studies of heart attack cadavers have also revealed the disinformation of cholesterol dangers. Yet the common guidance from cardiologists upon seeing high cholesterol is to get an angiogram,adiagnostic testwhichis expensive and not so safe. then there are those pricey drugs meantto lower cholesterol while wreaking havoc on overall health. (2)
Cholesterol is important for numerous functions. For example, it helps convert sunlight into vitamin D3. If you’re not getting enough with your food, the liver is forced to manufacture it. low cholesterol has been linked to higher stroke risks.
Oxidized cholesterol from hydrogenated and refined polyunsaturated cooking oils and margarine can result in problems that result in CHD. This comes not only directly from Camiseta Racing Club de Avellaneda the oils themselves, but indirectly from the oxidation process those oils initiate. (3)
These toxic oils and butter substitutes were created to replace thewholesome saturated fats that ought to be consumed.
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