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Cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease

June 10, 2008 in Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 57 comments

In last week's article about the ineffectiveness of statin drugs in reducing mortality in most populations I promised I would follow-up with an article on drug-free prevention of heart disease. I will do that this week, but it occurred to me that the first article in this series should have been one that dispels the myth that cholesterol causes heart disease. Understanding that is the key to the prevention strategies that will follow in the next ...
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Our children: well-fed but malnourished?

April 25, 2008 in Babies & Kids, Food & Nutrition | 3 comments

The Healthy Skeptic reader Jessica wrote in with this topic suggestion:“I like the “what to feed children” idea. But it has to be food they will actually EAT.”The question of how to nourish our children so they develop into healthy adults is one of the most important questions we can ask. Tragically, the answers that the medical mainstream has come up with have contributed to unprecedented epidemics of childhood disease and endangered the health and ...
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Essential fatty acids: not so essential after all

April 15, 2008 in Food & Nutrition | 8 comments

Most health-conscious folks have heard of essential fatty acids (EFAs) by now. It isn’t unusual for a health food store to sell several different brands of fish oils, flax oil and other blends of “essential fatty acids”. We’ve been told that consuming these oils will keep us healthy and protect us from disease.Today’s nutrition textbooks refer to omega-6 (linoleic) acid and omega-3 (alpha-linolenic) acid as essential components of the human diet, and cite the ...
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