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