Don't fall for the cholesterol scam

Toad Hallsaid...

I have very high C and they want to put me on statins, i am in thirties. I have avoided so far.

2:47 am

Anonymous said...

I knew that the human brain is made of cholesterol to a large extent and that low cholesterol diets will lead to problems in later life. Eggs are the food which humans ate, probably exclusively, during spring and summer due to the large numbers of species which nested on the ground in the days before agriculture. Makes sense - easy to collect and by definion
contain everything needed to build a body. I have some hens and eat at least two eggs a day. Cholesterol levels fine and ticker better than average for my age.

2:55 am

Anonymous said...

Fully agree with everything said above.

The mainstream media demonizes cholesterol as being bad for you. Heck, you see mainstream media adverts on TV and newspapers advertising butter/margarine as 'low in cholesterol' don't you?

Step back for a moment though and look at the 'studies' done in newspapers about how the usual rubbish of 'research has show than cholesterol is bad for you' ... words to that extent. The mainstream media never tell you who *FUNDED* the research do they?

The people funding the 'research' are the very same Monsanto, government-types, etc. that need to profit from you being unhealthy... not healthy.

I've posted this before but maybe it's worth posting again as it applies to cholesterol (and diabetes on the other thread):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ira86Hf57_g

Well worth investing 1h 30+ minutes of your life to broaden your horizons.

11:07 am

norman said...

10 years ago i had a stent put in an artery and was put on simvastatin 40 mg.my temper became pretty bad but controllable. a few years later 40mg was upped to 80mg but i stopped it as my temper was explosive and my memory was failing. my doctor went ape-shit and tried to force me back to 80mg. i refused.next he changed simvastatin for lipitor. what a mare!i was a different person. i couldn't think straight nor work properly so i threw all the tablets i'd been prescribed and haven't felt better. no less than 3 doctors have tried unsuccessfully to get me back on to tablets but i prefer life without depression,temper or strife.

http://the-tap.blogspot.com/2013/01/low-cholesterol-be-damned-you-need.html 

EXTRACT

Low cholesterol be damned. You need the stuff to maintain robust health.

TAP -  A perfectly healthy friend of mine was warned he had a 30% chance of dying from heart trouble within ten years because he had high cholesterol.  He's about the fittest person I know, growing his own food and biking around the place.  They put him on stattins.  Within a month he was quite unwell.  This article suggests that the cholesterol scare story is a 1950s medical hoax, widely used by doctors to sell shit pharmacy. 

ANONYMOUS - Fully agree with everything said above.

The mainstream media demonizes cholesterol as being bad for you. Heck, you see mainstream media adverts on TV and newspapers advertising butter/margarine as 'low in cholesterol' don't you?

Step back for a moment though and look at the 'studies' done in newspapers about how the usual rubbish of 'research has show than cholesterol is bad for you' ... words to that extent. The mainstream media never tell you who *FUNDED* the research do they?

The people funding the 'research' are the very same Monsanto, government-types, etc. that need to profit from you being unhealthy... not healthy.

I've posted this before but maybe it's worth posting again as it applies to cholesterol (and diabetes on the other thread):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ira86Hf57_g

Well worth investing 1h 30+ minutes of your life to broaden your horizons.

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 the University of Illinois. (Please note that the opinions expressed here represent Dr. Masterjohn's own positions, and may not represent the position of the University of Illinois.)
He also maintains a blog, The Daily Lipid¹, and his website, Cholesterol-And-Health.com², which are dedicated to the issue of cholesterol. He's also active with the Weston A. Price Foundation.
Cholesterol has been demonized since the early 1950's, following the popularization of Ancel Keys' flawed research. As a result, people now spend tens of billions of dollars on cholesterol-reducing drugs each year, thinking they have to lower this "dangerous" molecule lest they keel over from a heart attack.
As a testament to the power of this incredibly effective marketing system, Lipitor was the number one selling drug for 2011. This also reveals why challenging this belief system is met by such intense resistance. There are very powerful, financially-motivated forces backing the continued belief in the cholesterol myth.