subject: The Cholesterol Lie Download [print this page] You have the power, and if you will take control now, your life changes from this moment on. I want you to forget everything you have heard, read or been told about low-fat diets, saturated fats, cholesterol and the causes of heart disease.
This is the truth: It doesn't matter if you're looking to prevent heart disease, whether there's a history in your family, or if you've been diagnosed and warned of the imminent dangers you face - heart disease has a cure. Heart disease does not have to be a death sentence. You can beat it without harmful medications and painful, risky surgery.
Back in the late 40's, scientists and researchers assembled in Framingham, NY to study the cause of, and hopefully find a cure for heart disease.
This group, known as the "The Framingham Study" made some headway into discovering some things that contribute to heart disease. Then, in 1961, they stumbled upon cholesterol and with incomplete "faulty" research, lacking in scientific fact, became so convinced they found the answer, other research was disregarded and tunnel vision set in.
Unfortunately, this "tunnel vision" blinded researchers and regulators from the truth that was right in front of them and big drug companies and special interest lobby groups used these findings to capitalize for their own greed.
Soon after, the low-fat theory was born and the Food Pyramid followed that promoted manufactured, low-fat foods filled with sugar, promoted starches all of which the human body was never designed to process.
Let's be honest. How much money is at stake here? For over 50 years pharmaceutical companies created drugs, doctors followed the cholesterol myth while Americans became conditioned to believe they must reduce cholesterol to prevent heart disease. So they take statin medication, as prescribed, and hope for the best.
