A highly qualified doctor and scientist analyzes the studies used to justify the cholesterol hypothesis and demonstrates that the idea that animal fats and cholesterol cause heart disease is based on flimsy, even fraudulent evidence and wishful thinking. Includes a discussion on the dangers of vegetable oils and cholesterol-lowering drugs.
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Dr Ravnskov does an admirable job of demolishing the oft-cited theory that cholesterol and saturated fat cause heart disease (the so-called 'diet-heart' idea). He treats his readers as adults and does not miss out any of the gory statistical details. Poorly-conducted studies, statistical fudges and even blatant mis-quotes from scientific papers seem to form the basis of the 'diet-heart' idea. Ravnskov peels away the layers of misconceptions in this highly absorbing book. Highly recommended, especially if you know someone who is 'watching their cholesterol' for no good medical reason.
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Up until two years I believed that Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) was treatable illness that only killed people who were in certain high risk categories; i.e. people who ate lots of saturated fat, didn't excise, smoked etc etc etc - I think everybody has heard of these factors through one source or another. Two years ago my Dad died of a sudden Heart Attack at the age of 58, which stunned all of my family! It completely caught us unawares, because he didn't seem to be at risk at all. According to the heart disease risk factors he should have been fine, because he didn't fit into many of these categories; and most confusing of all he had a very low CHOLESTEROL level. This was the main thing that caught us all out, because we got sucked in by the misinformation that is continuously being pumped out by government bodies, health food producers and off course the drugs companies!!!
This started me looking for answers ... after a few web searches I came across this book.
This started me looking for answers ... after a few web searches I came across this book.
Uffe Ravnskov definitely seems to be one of those rare people who can see past the hype and the pressure from his peers to accept the consensus. He has written a very comprehensive report re-analysing the CHD research over the last 50 years showing how most of it has very little link to Cholesterol and Saturated Fat. The problem with media and government advice is that it is usually one sided, they can't be seen to be confused, especially about something as big as CHD - but if the scientists are puzzled then shouldn't this advise be passed onto the public? A book like 'The Cholesterol Myths' attempts to even up this one sided debate, and I'd definitely recommend reading it just so that you - and not others with ulterior motives - can make up your own mind.
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If you take statins, eat 5 portions of fruit etc this book could save your life
24 May 2008
By Broga
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This is the book the diet industry does not want you to read. I have bought three copies already: one for my son; one for my nephew; and one for myself. Here is my experience:
I am retired and had a health check. I was fit, into rowing, mountain hikes and other heavy excercise and very fit. I was told my cholesterol was "high" and this meant 5.8. My GP offered mea statin drug which was "what the government recommends." In a couple of months my cholesterol was 3.4. I was delighted. One day I discovered my thighs ached, I couldn't walk easily and I was depressed. My eyes were "blurry". At 67 I thought that age had at last got me. Then I read an article in The Sunday Times about the worries about statin drugs. My GP warned me about the dangers of stopping my statin "more dangerous than if you had never started" was the received wisdom. I researched the internet and found this book. The same day I stopped statins. A fortnight later I was feeling back to normal and soon on a daily diet of 3 or 4 eggs (our own hens), often a pint of full cream milk a day, cheese and all the stuff you shouldn't eat according to the received wisdom.
A relative who visited us was amazed at my diet and "thought I would have known better." He was 2 years younger than myself and could scarcely climb our stairs to his bedroom. I was walking for a few miles up into the hills most days. Sometimes I walked all day.
My wife heard a consultant on the radio advising on the benefits of statins and recorded the interview. She thought I should listen to it. My conclusion was that I would rather be dead than return to statins and I have been on my present diet for the last four years.
The public take diet advice as "gospel". I have even seen a government minister sitting at a desk with five peices of fruit saying this was a healthy diet.
Read this book. The number of obese people attempting to stick to a destructive addictive diet is sad. The same goes for those with diabetes. Read this book. You will not regret it. Uffe Ravnskov is a hero.
I am retired and had a health check. I was fit, into rowing, mountain hikes and other heavy excercise and very fit. I was told my cholesterol was "high" and this meant 5.8. My GP offered mea statin drug which was "what the government recommends." In a couple of months my cholesterol was 3.4. I was delighted. One day I discovered my thighs ached, I couldn't walk easily and I was depressed. My eyes were "blurry". At 67 I thought that age had at last got me. Then I read an article in The Sunday Times about the worries about statin drugs. My GP warned me about the dangers of stopping my statin "more dangerous than if you had never started" was the received wisdom. I researched the internet and found this book. The same day I stopped statins. A fortnight later I was feeling back to normal and soon on a daily diet of 3 or 4 eggs (our own hens), often a pint of full cream milk a day, cheese and all the stuff you shouldn't eat according to the received wisdom.
A relative who visited us was amazed at my diet and "thought I would have known better." He was 2 years younger than myself and could scarcely climb our stairs to his bedroom. I was walking for a few miles up into the hills most days. Sometimes I walked all day.
My wife heard a consultant on the radio advising on the benefits of statins and recorded the interview. She thought I should listen to it. My conclusion was that I would rather be dead than return to statins and I have been on my present diet for the last four years.
The public take diet advice as "gospel". I have even seen a government minister sitting at a desk with five peices of fruit saying this was a healthy diet.
Read this book. The number of obese people attempting to stick to a destructive addictive diet is sad. The same goes for those with diabetes. Read this book. You will not regret it. Uffe Ravnskov is a hero.
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"Dr Ravnskov has done a magnificent service with a scholarly book that gathers a vast body of impressive evidence and will surprise many with the true facts from research studies. Read more
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This is possibly the most important book anyone could read in their life, but why is it so expensive? Read more
Published 14 months ago by D. W. Salter
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Brilliantly done! Fat and cholesterol are good for you
This book explains in very easy to understand language that common myths about fat and cholesterol include that:
- High fat foods cause heart disease. Read more
- High fat foods cause heart disease. Read more
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The Cholesterol Myths
This is a well written book which explains the subject in an uncomplicated manner and is easy for the layman to understand. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2010 by Elizabeth Gay
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The other side of the Cholesterol debate
Up until two years I believed that Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) was treatable illness that only killed people who were in certain high risk categories; i.e. Read more
Published on 12 Oct 2004 by David Hoddell
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Holding high the banner of science
Uffe Ravnskov is one of those people who makes me want to rekindle the statistics skills I picked up when attenting business school. Read more
Published on 22 Mar 2004 by J. Kristensen
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