A change of heart, cholesterol may not be as bad as once thought

[mick silver]

A change of heart, cholesterol may not be as bad as once thoughthttp://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/news/2014-09-29/4f614ff0-4818-11e4-a6ef-45a9cd12d710_Bianna-G-HeadShot_web.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/author/bianna-golodryga/) By Bianna Golodryga (http://news.yahoo.com/author/bianna-golodryga/) February 11, 2015 11:16 PM Yahoo News














It’s the jolting headline that will make your taste buds jump for joy. Foods high in cholesterol may not be bad for your heart after all. After years of warning consumers to cut down on cholesterol, found in eggs, shellfish, butter and beef, the nutrition community has come full circle.

A new draft of a report (https://news.yahoo.com/u-may-lower-cholesterols-level-threat-health-report-183659413--sector.html) from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee contains a monumental shift in warnings first issued nearly four decades ago, suggesting that cholesterol no longer needs to be viewed as a “nutrient of concern.”

The announcement is viewed as vindication for Nina Teicholz, author of the 2014 best-selling book “The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat, and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet.” (http://www.thebigfatsurprise.com/) Teicholz broke with conventional wisdom and angered many in the medical community by writing that through years of research, she concluded that not only was cholesterol wrongly linked to heart disease, but foods high in saturated fats, such as butter, eggs and beef, were also falsely labeled as heart unhealthy. The former vegetarian now practices what she preaches and has changed the way she and her family eat. Breakfast consists of eggs and bacon; cheese is a staple, as is lard. Gone are foods high in carbs and sugar. Teicholz invited Yahoo News into her kitchen just days before the stunning announcement from the nutrition advisory panel and predicted that more findings like these would be coming soon.



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[Hatha Sunahara]

Medicine is not immune to dogmatism. Most especially allopathic medicine. The faith people have in it is because it is supposedly based on science. Somewhere it got corrupted by commerce. Cholesterol has been a boogeyman ever since big pharma started selling 'statin' drugs, which supposedly reduce cholesterol. Have you noticed that new diseases appear suddenly, as do cures for them? For example, there is a disorder called 'restless leg sylndrome' Some drrug company has a drug to relueve it. Or attention deficit disorder in kids--ADHD for which half the kids in public schools are taking drugs to relieve. There is likely a long list of such disorders that someone has compiles where drug companies invent disorders in order to sell drugs that relieve these disorders. And these big pharma companies have arrangements with doctors to prescribe these drugs which resemble a commission structure for salespeople. The big pharma companies can advertise these drugs directly to consumers so that when they see their doctors, they will ask for the drug by name. Statins have been huge moneymakers for big pharma because all the doctors believe the propaganda of the drug companies about cholesterol. Their goal was to get everyone to use statin drugs. They even had propaganda to get young children to start using these drugs. The statins have horrendous side effects. They cause damage to large muscles in your body. Some really bad science sold a causal link between Low density lipoproteins (LDL) which is a 'bad form of cholesterol and clogged arteries which is a symptom of heart disease. It was obvious that lowering cholesterol would cut down on instances of heart disease, and heart attacks, wich all to frequently are fatal. Cholesterol got a bad rap, just like coconut oil did in the early 1970s. Coconut oil was to be avoided because it caused heart attacks. Nobody noticed that it was the soybean oil producers that were making this claim. It was about 10 years ago that researchers finally discovered one real culprit in heart disease: trans-fats. Hydrogenated oils, as in margarine. Researchers are now hot on the trail of a causal link between heart disease and sugar consumption. These conclusions are based on much better science, and the recommendations are not as dogmatic as avoiding and reducing cholesterol was.

What I have learned over a lifetime was to trust my own instincts and common sense, and to distrust advice from experts--particularly those who will profit if I take their advice. I usually seek out dissenting opinions of people who are being marginalized. These are the people who will help me think through a problem--like why have chronic metabolic diseases like heart disease, diabetes, arthritis and cancer become so common during my lifetime, and not before? The dissenters will tell you to look at what has changed in peoples diets: A huge increase in processed foods, and far fewer whole foods in peoples diets. Also, less exercise, and more environmental pollution. But what has changed the most is the commercialization of health care. And the idea that you can 'cure' everything with some drug. That's all bullshit. If you want to be healthier--eat and live like people did 250 years ago Avoid all vaccines--because they don't work any more. Stay away from doctors and hospitals unless you have mechanical problems such as broken bones or gunshot wounds. It's probably safe to say that modern medicine doesn't really know much more than you do about chronic metabolic diseases, except how to maximize their profits when you suffer from such ailments. Best way to deal with health is to practice prevention, and assume there are no cures for any diseases that your immune system cannot do on it's own, or with the help of natural substances. If you rely too heavily on modern medicine, chances are you will have a shorter life.


Hatha

[Twisted Titan]

The lady is a sell out.

Unless you are raising hogs,chicken and cows the shit the markets sell are science fiction.

[Celtic Rogue]

I have always said that cholesterol medications are just a money maker! I am sure that some few people "might" need them However for the most of us...

If you eat a varied diet and get a minimum of exercise you will be just fine! It seems like every time I go and see a doctor. They ignore the complaint that brought me there and instead focus on what pills they can get me on! Then on top of it the medical community keeps lowering the threshold they use to put you on drugs like BP and Cholesterol! Why? because the lower it is the more ills they sell!

Pills are not the answer to health...They are a life long impediment to health and a cause of even more problems by their side effects... but dont worry they have another pill to take care of those things.

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