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5 reasons not to worry about your cholesterol numbers

January 26, 2011 in Food & Nutrition, Paleo Diet | 51 comments

I do a lot of public speaking. As you might suspect, regardless of the specific topic I'm presenting the dietary recommendations I make are always essentially the same: high-fat, nutrient-dense and low in toxins. Since omega-6 vegetable oils are toxins, when I say high fat I'm talking about saturated and monounsaturated fat. You know this. But a lot of people I speak to don't. They fully steeped in 50 years of mainstream propaganda ...
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I have high cholesterol, and I don’t care

May 31, 2010 in Heart Disease, Medical Industrial Complex, Myths & Truths | 163 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 most important thing you probably don’t know about cholesterol

January 20, 2010 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 37 comments

Summary: The simplified view of cholesterol as "good" (HDL) or "bad" (LDL) has contributed to the continuing heart disease epidemic Not all LDL cholesterol is created equal. Only small, dense LDL particles are associated with heart disease, whereas large, buoyant LDL are either benign or may protect against heart disease. Replacing saturated fats with carbohydrates - which has been recommended by the American Heart Association for decades - reduces HDL and increases small, dense LDL, both of which ...
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