November 8, 2009 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease |
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For the last 50 years mainstream medical "authorities" have been hammering it into our heads that high cholesterol levels are dangerous and low cholesterol levels are desirable; that eating saturated fat is bad for us; and that a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet is healthy and helps people lose weight.
If you're a new reader, you might be surprised to learn that there's very little evidence to support these recommendations and plenty of evidence that contradicts them. ...
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August 5, 2008 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths |
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Easy! Just follow Dr. Steinberg's recent recommendations.
Dr. Daniel Steinberg, author of "The Cholesterol Wars", has just issued new recommendations proposing that "aggressive intervention to lower cholesterol levels as early as childhood is the best approach available today to reducing the incidence of coronary heart disease."
In a review article published in the August 5, 2008 issue of the American Heart Association journal Circulation, Steinberg and his colleagues state that "with a large body of evidence proving ...
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