“(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 properly performed previous studies on heart health and saturated fats concluded there was no association between cardiac issues and saturated fats. This was published in the American Journal of Clinical 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 many 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 explains in his article “A Headline You Will Never See: 60 Year Old Man Dies of Cholesterol” that cholesterol doesn’t kill “any more than a bad paint job on your car could cause a fatal car accident.” (1)
He explains the cause of most 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 factors 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 important 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 concerns and opting for a measure of coronary atherosclerotic plaque.
Bad chol is made by your liver in response to your diet lacking RDA of magnesium (take mag pill or eat dark greens, seeds and tree nuts).
Moreover, simple carbohydrates (read: “sugar”) lead to increases in Triglycerides and the formation of a subset of LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein, aka “the bad cholesterol) called small dense particulate. These particles have been found to be predictive of atherosclerosis. In fact, the single best indicator that we currently have of risk factors for heart disease are the ratio of blood Triglycerides to HDL (good cholesterol) levels.
And tell me, Mr violinist, does fat intake not also contribute to LDL levels?
Carbohydrates also get converted to fat after digestion…. Or were you not aware of that fact?
While you, apparently are, medical experts may split, whatever HOBOama’s newly imported death squad of “Doctors” tell me in the 2014 law, I will do the exact opposite.
If there are any American Doctors without accents who offer me a suggestion, I will them hear them out.
Is than discrimination based on nationality?
Your DAMN RIGHT IT IS!
Nice Scavenger
“He explains the cause of most heart attacks and coronary problems is atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary arteries, which can build up and rupture or clog the arteries.”
Oh, and I’m supposed to believe cholesterol (and saturated fat for that matter) plays no role in the process of atherosclerosis? Come on, don’t be a fool! There’s a reason that a “metaanalysis” could never get a drug approved. Because it does not prove anything. Only controlled studies prove science.
In today’s economy, might the PTO, FDA and DEA accept Walmart Gift Cards as payments from struggling health care producers?