cholesterol research

[Guest guest]

, I'll give you two examples.

For years cholesterol researchers have tried and failed to find a link

between high cholesterol and heart disease. In their research however they

discovered that there are a few people who have a genetic defect with lipid

metabolism who are prone to heart disease. These people have unusually high

cholesterol. The elevated cholesterol is a genetic defect and not a product

of lifestyle or diet. The high cholesterol doesn't make them more prone to

heart disease it is just a marker or symptom of the genetic condition. These

people have a high death rate due to heart attack.

In a desperate attempt to " prove " the cholesterol theory researchers

carefully designed studies to include as many people with this genetic

defect as possible to increase the number of subjects who have a link

between high cholesterol and heart disease. So the researchers eliminated

all women from the study because they do not have this genetic defect. They

eliminated all men under the age of 35 because they were too young to

develop heart disease even if they did have the defect. They eliminated all

men over the age of 60 (top age differs depending on which study you are

referring to) because not too many people with this defect live longer than

that. All the subjects must have very high cholesterol (usually 300+), one

of the indicators of this genetic condition. (Note: not all people with very

high cholesterol have this genetic defect.) A very large number of subjects

are also chosen to participate (5000, 10,000, or more). The larger the

number of people in the study the greater the chance of including

individuals who have this genetic defect. So the subjects are middle aged

males between the ages of 35-60 who have very high cholesterol. In this

population you have statically the highest possible number of people with

this genetic defect. Researchers than monitor the subjects and see how many

suffer heart attacks. Because of the high number of subjects with the

genetic defect that makes them prone to heart attacks the researchers end up

with statistics showing a SMALL correlation between high cholesterol and

heart attack. It is on these fraudulent studies that the cholesterol theory

of heart disease gets ALL of its " proof " .

This is also why researchers have never been able to link high cholesterol

to heart disease in mixed populations, or subjects of all males, or all

females, or all older or younger people, etc. If you have elevated

cholesterol and are a male older than 50 years of age or a female at any

age, there is NO scientific justification to be taking cholesterol-lowering

drugs. Even if a person has the genetic condition mentioned above, lowering

their cholesterol will NOT protect them from heart attack. So

cholesterol-lowering drugs are essentially worthless for EVERYBODY.

One more example. A study could be set up to test the effect of a certain

cholesterol-lowering drug in preventing heart attacks. There are two groups

of people in the study. One group is give a placebo, which has no effect,

and is used as the control. The other group is given the

cholesterol-lowering drug AND vitamin C. The addition of vitamin C is

mentioned only in passing as if it had no meaning. The result of the study

may show that the cholesterol-lowering drug (and vitamin C) had a protective

effect against heart attacks. The study proudly proclaims this brand of

cholesterol-lowering drug is useful in preventing heart attacks. The vitamin

C is pretty much ignored. All the emphasis is put on the drug. However,

researchers know that vitamin C protects the heart from heart attacks and

heart disease. The general public, the media, and doctors (who know little

about nutrition) don't know vitamin C is protective and ignore it. The real

truth is that the vitamin C was the thing that protected against heart

attack. The drug was probably worthless and actually probably harmful but

the vitamin C masked the harmful effects. (Cholesterol-lowering drugs have

many harmful side effects that are rarely discussed and actually shorten

lifespan.) Studies designed using two or more variables but giving all the

credit to only one variable is extremely common in health research and is

completely (and deliberately) misleading.

In my book Coconut Cures I devote an entire chapter on research studies that

have been used to link coconut oil with heart disease. I then explain why

these studies are flawed or purposely designed to discredit coconut oil. At

the end of the chapter you see that there is no evidence to link coconut oil

with heart disease and that the evidence shows that it protects against

heart disease.

Bruce

Re: Fat and Protein

> Hi Bruce,

> Could you please gives us some examples of this...maybe of mass

> excepted " facts " ...some that wont get you into trouble.

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