Cholesterol Facts You Should Know http://cholesterolbody.com By: Bob Green At Cortive Institute Crystal Lake Campus Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:59:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Opening On Cholesterol http://cholesterolbody.com/?p=64 http://cholesterolbody.com/?p=64#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:02:47 +0000 admin http://cholesterolbody.com/?p=64 The most common version of cholesterol goes something like this: when you eat fatty foods, especially foods rich in animal fat, the saturated fat and cholesterol in these foods end up in your blood and cling to your arteries plugging them up. Since saturated fats are solid outside your body, they will be solid inside your body also [...]]]>

The most common version of cholesterol goes something like this: when you eat fatty foods, especially foods rich in animal fat, the saturated fat and cholesterol in these foods end up in your blood and cling to your arteries plugging them up. Since saturated fats are solid outside your body, they will be solid inside your body also — even though there is 30-degree increase in average temperature. Arteries are much like pipes. When they get caked up with grease, blood flow is impaired, and a heart attack ensues.

None of the prominent scientists who promoted the idea that cholesterol is a critical factor in the development of heart disease ever believed anything remotely resembling this nonsense. From the beginning, they recognized that atherosclerotic plaque accumulates behindthe layer of the artery in contact with the blood, called the endothelium, and that the cholesterol and fat within it is engulfed in white blood cells.

The theory these scientists promoted looked something like this: when the cholesterol level in the blood increases, it penetrates the arterial wall and gets stuck; white blood cells circulating in the blood then enter the arterial wall and gobble up the cholesterol; the accumulation of lipid-loaded white blood cells causes local injury, leading to cell death, calcification, and the development of a collagen-laden “fibrous cap” over the atherosclerotic lesion. When the cap ruptures, the blood clots, blocking the artery and causing a heart attack. This is called the lipid hypothesis.

But is this true? Books and web sites devoted to debunking this theory have come out of the woodwork over the last decade; books defending it have followed suit. Consider the following titles to see just how controversial the idea really is:

  • The Great Cholesterol Con: Why everything you’ve been told about cholesterol, diet, and heart disease is wrong!by Anthony Colpo (2006).
  • The Cholesterol Wars: The Skeptics vs. the Preponderance of the Evidenceby Daniel Steinberg, MD, PhD (2007).
  • The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It by Malcolm Kendrick, MD (2007).

    • So is the theory that cholesterol causes heart disease just a myth? Or are the skeptics truly waging a war against the preponderance of the evidence?

    There are 14 popular drugs that lower cholesterol, here are some stats for two of them.Lipitor is the most popular drug ever sold ever in the history of the world.Lipitor does more than $9 billion in sales per year that’s more than one million dollars per hour, every hour of every day, 365 days per year and that’s not chump change.Crestor had $3.5 billion in sales on it’s cholesterol lowering drug in 2008.The list goes on and on.So how much do they spend to lobby the FDA for approval of there poisonous elixirs? The deep-pocketed pharmaceutical and health products industry has lobbied on more than 1,400 congressional bills since 1998 and spent a whopping $759 million during that period, a Center for Public Integrity review of lobbying records revealed. My point is that it is all about money and not true health. Would you chance these side effects of Lipitor : headache, nausea, fever,seriuos liver problems,severe muscle pain,unusual muscle pain or weakness,sexual dysfunction and performance problems, as well as personality changes, memory loss and even death.

    There are many other  researchers that believe it is better to not take cholesterol lowering drugs! I am not a M.D. nor do I have a P.H.D. but have I reviewed many sources and have published many links on this site. The majorty of information on this site is  research done by Uffe Ravnskov, MD,Phd .You will find his many cedentials on this site along with many concurring Doctors and experts. This website will be for non profit and is only here to benefit those who seek the truth and want to understand the truth of cholesterol.

    ]]>     http://cholesterolbody.com/?feed=rss2&p=64 22     The Cholesterol Myths http://cholesterolbody.com/?p=32 http://cholesterolbody.com/?p=32#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:02:52 +0000 admin http://cholesterolbody.com/?p=32 Here are the facts:

    1  Cholesterol is not a deadly poison, but a substance vital to the cells of all mammals. There are no such things as good or bad cholesterol, but mental stress, physical activity and change of body weight may influence the level of blood cholesterol. A high cholesterol is not dangerous by itself, but [...]]]>

    Here are the facts:

    1  Cholesterol is not a deadly poison, but a substance vital to the cells of all mammals. There are no such things as good or bad cholesterol, but mental stress, physical activity and change of body weight may influence the level of blood cholesterol. A high cholesterol is not dangerous by itself, but may reflect an unhealthy condition, or it may be totally innocent.

     2  A high blood cholesterol is said to promote atherosclerosis and thus also coronary heart disease. But many studies have shown that people whose blood cholesterol is low become just as atherosclerotic as people whose cholesterol is high.

     3  Your body produces three to four times more cholesterol than you eat. The production of cholesterol increases when you eat little cholesterol and decreases when you eat much. This explains why the ”prudent” diet cannot lower cholesterol more than on average a few per cent.

     4  There is no evidence that too much animal fat and cholesterol in the diet promotes atherosclerosis or heart attacks. For instance, more than twenty studies have shown that people who have had a heart attack haven’t eaten more fat of any kind than other people, and degree of atherosclerosis at autopsy is unrelated with the diet.

     5  The only effective way to lower cholesterol is with drugs, but neither heart mortality or total mortality have been improved with drugs the effect of which is cholesterol-lowering only. On the contrary, these drugs are dangerous to your health and may shorten your life.

     6  The new cholesterol-lowering drugs, the statins, do prevent cardio-vascular disease, but this is due to other mechanisms than cholesterol-lowering. Unfortunately, they also stimulate cancer in rodents, disturb the functions of the muscles, the heart and the brain and pregnant women taking statins may give birth to children with malformations more severe than those seen after thalidomide.

     7  Many of these facts have been presented in scientific journals and books for decades but are rarely told to the public by the proponents of the diet-heart idea. 

     8  The reason why laymen, doctors and most scientists have been misled is because opposing and disagreeing results are systematically ignored or misquoted in the scientific press

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