Heart Disease

The hidden truth about statins

June 12, 2010 in Heart Disease, Medical Industrial Complex | 67 comments

Statins are the most popular drugs in history. Drug companies made $26 billion selling statins alone in 2008. 25 million Americans take them, and the number is growing each year.One reason why statins are the best-selling drug category by far is that 92% of people taking them are healthy. The FDA has approved the prescription of statins to people at low risk for heart disease and stroke, who don't even have high cholesterol. ...
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I have high cholesterol, and I don’t care

May 31, 2010 in Heart Disease, Medical Industrial Complex, Myths & Truths | 179 comments

Still think saturated fat is bad for you? Still think eating eggs raises cholesterol? Still think high cholesterol causes heart disease?If you answered yes to any of those questions, you really need to watch these videos. (But hey, you might learn something even if you answered "no".)In this presentation I:debunk the myth that eating saturated fat and cholesterol causes heart disease. explain why LDL and total cholesterol are not useful markers for heart ...
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The saturated fat myth debunked in two minutes and thirty five seconds

April 30, 2010 in Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 41 comments

From the documentary Fat Headhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4&feature=player_embedded&fmt=22 
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Ten steps to preventing heart disease naturally

February 23, 2010 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease | 8 comments

Today I will summarize the approach to preventing heart disease I've been writing about for the past couple of years. If you're new to the blog and haven't seen those articles, there's an index of them here.After today's post I'm going to move on to some new topics. There are so many mainstream health myths out there it's hard to cover them all! In the next few months we're going to shift our attention ...
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