Eventually, health authorities will have to change; it is inevitable. The more public this information becomes, then the more egg they will appear to have on their face. The cholesterol myth is truly pervasive, but once people start questioning it, they will quickly realise there is nothing behind it. Simply regurgitating the fact that everyone knows saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease is not evidence, and it will no longer be good enough. I have spent hours trawling through the standard health advice to locate this so called strong evidence they claim to have, and I have never been able to find it. For example, the lipid management guidelines say, There is strong evidence that lipid-modifying treatment reduces CHD progression, morbidity and mortality for people who are at high risk of CHD events but then later they say, It is noteworthy that most patients who develop CHD have cholesterol levels which are NOT MARKEDLY ELEVATED Then, the same document references the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial (MRFIT), and says that it, shows a continuous positive curvilinear relationship between plasma cholesterol concentration and rates of death from CHD. BUT, the researchers of the actual study themselves stated that there was a statistically nonsignificant difference between the intervention group and the other group for deaths from CVD and concluded that the overall results do not show a beneficial effect on coronary heart disease or total mortality from this multifactor intervention. They also reference the Framingham study. Now this study has truly tried over the last 20 years to prove the cholesterol hypothesis, but they simply havent, and have made many statements in their findings over the years, such as, There is no indication of a relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol level. If the intake on animal fat is held constant there is still no relation of cholesterol intake to serum cholesterol level. And, in their own position statement, the NHFA says, The National Heart Foundation (NHF) review of the relationship between dietary fat and cardiovascular disease (CVD) while finding good evidence of a link between the amount of saturated fat in the diet and CVD risk, found LITTLE evidence demonstrating that coronary events or death are linked to the amount of total fat in the diet. What??!! Once people realise they are losing loved ones to bogus dietary advice, and that the bottom line is money instead of our health, there will be some massive class action law suits. Christine Cronau
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:08:40 +0000
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