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Three more studies that should make you skeptical of mainstream health advice

November 8, 2009 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease | 2 comments

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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How to increase your risk of heart disease

August 5, 2008 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 18 comments

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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More mainstream madness

July 8, 2008 in Babies & Kids, Food & Nutrition, Medical Industrial Complex | 5 comments

This week I'd like to bring your attention to three articles I came across on the web which illustrate the utter madness of mainstream medicine and nutrition. The first article, "Beware of New Media Brainwashing About High Fructose Corn Syrup", appeared on Mercola.com, a health advocacy site run by Dr. Joseph Mercola which I recommend. I agree with Dr. Mercola on most things, and even when we don't agree the differences are relatively minor. In his article ...
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