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Are you worried about your cholesterol levels, and do you think going on a low cholesterol diet is the way forward, or, could that in the end lead to bad health?
 
Are we to believe studies that are backed by the drug companies and that everybody should be taking statins from an early age? What is the real reason? Could it possibly be profit!!  What causes heart disease?

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How often have you heard that somebodys cholesterol is too high? How often have they been told the importance to start eating statins and to go on a low fat diet,switching from butter to margarines etc

Some years ago I had a cholesterol test done, since this had become the "in" thing to do. The following day, my doctor phoned up to tell me that my cholesterol was "sky high and I had to start taking statin at once". He also said that it was just a matter of time before I would have a heart attack! Talking about scaring you to death! I should add I am a non smoker, not over weight and with a very healthy blood pressure. Terrified as I was, I went along with his advice and started taking statins ( simvastatin ). I also went on a low fat diet. After only a few weeks I was starting to feel that my muscles was very sore and I had great difficulties bending down, but put it down to lifting heavy things the wrong way and it probably would get better. It didn´t.  My cholesterol went down, mostly my HDL, and I still felt rotten. I then started to look up information about cholesterol, books and articles and come to the conclusion that I would be far better off without taking statins and not to worry about my cholesterol. I started to eat more "normal",left the low fat diet and happily tucked in to butter, cream, cheese and meat. My HDL went up in leaps and bounds and my triglycerites went down and I felt great.

During these few years ,I have been looking in to this question and been very shocked of what I have been reading and found out. This website is for you who would like to explore this subject more. I have no medical background, only personal experience with cholesterol and statin treatment, but have found scientifically backed research by independent researchers which has opened my eyes a lot. I hope that you will join my forum and tell us your own experience with this subject.

Now, it is considered, that eating fat is not an important factor when it comes to heart disease or being overweight. On the contrary, a low fat diet will lead to overweight and bad health beacause  reducing fat in the diet will lead to an increase in carbrohydrates.Because protein  is often found in the same food as fat, ie cheese, bacon and eggs,it will also double the increase of carbrohydrates. According to new science, the reason for the massive increase in childrens obesity, together with other desease in the form of diabetes, heart desease etc is the result of todays big consumption in carbrohydrates not of fat.

Eating less fat and more carbohydrates leads to the good HDL cholesterol falling and the harmful triglycerides to go up. The problem is that this knowledge is contrary to previous councils of the low fat brigade. Many medical authorities do not want to admit that they have been wrong all this time. The drug insdustry don´t want to give up the huge market for cholesterol lowering medicines and the food industry does not want to give up the incredibly profitable sales of low fat products, margarines and yoghurts. You just have to go in to a supermarket and see for your self. Shelfs after shelfs with these products. You can´t miss them even if you tried.  I, personally, find this very scary and extremely worrying that we are being convinced that we have to eat all these things if we are not to keel over and die from heart failure. Also that lots of the research regarding cholesterol and heart disease is backed by the drug companies.


How dangerous is cholesterol?

Cholesterol is  essential to life. Without cholesterol in the body, one would quickly die. Cholesterol is, amongst other things, needed to protect the body and as a building block to many of the bodies hormons. A very high procentage of people who contract heart disease has no elevated cholesterol whatsoever.

How did cholesterol get so hyped up?

If carbohydrates is worse for blood fats and fat better, how can it be that the last decades officially it said the exact opposite? Many reasons for this, but the primary is probably the early focus on the LDL as one of the main risk factors for heart disease. We knew that saturated fat in the diet seemed to increase this slightly, at least in the short term, a few months. Then came drugs called statins and found to reduce both LDL and the risk of heart disease and heart attacks.
Suddenly, it became extremely profitable to recommend to control blood fats, in order to sell drugs for this. For example Pfizer´s Lipitor, sold drugs for 12,6 billion dollars during 2006, making the world´s most profitable medicines. Both the drug industry and the food industry are making hugh profits selling cholesterol lowering products that in the long run will damage our health.

INFLAMMATION

It has become very clear from many recent studies that inflammation within the body, not cholesterol, causes plaque to build up in the arteries, which eventually leads to heart disease.

If you have internal inflammation, plaque will deposit itself as a healing agent. This has nothing to do wheter you have low or high cholesterol. So it is far more important to keep inflammation under control rather than worry yourself sick about your cholesterol numbers.

Smoking, stress, bad diet which includes refined oils and hydrogenetic fats, which is ,of course, found in margarines that we have been encouraged to eat instead of butter, can lead to inflammation.

By eating a healthy natural diet that we are meant to eat and not pre packed processed rubbish, cutting out fast carbohydrates, sugars  will control  inflammation and heart disease.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                


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