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Do you know
…what REALLY causes heart disease?
…that heart patients haven’t eaten more saturated fat than other people and stroke patients have eaten less?
…that diabetics may be cured if they replace carbohydrates with saturated fat?
…that people with low cholesterol become just as atherosclerotic as people with high?
…that high cholesterol is not a risk factor for women or diabetics?
…that high cholesterol is not a risk factor for old people although by far most heart attacks occur after age 65?
…that old people with high cholesterol live longer than old people with low?
…that the lipoproteins protect us against infectious diseases and probably also against cancer? The author is a scientist himself and has published more than 80 papers and letters in the scientific press critical to the cholesterol campaign, for which he has won two international awards. In his new book, which incl… More >>
Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You
This book tells it like it is!! Please read it so that you may become better informed about the hype on cholesterol. After reading this book you will be more able to make an educated decision regarding cholesterol. This truly is a laymen’s reader.
Rating: 5 / 5
Beg, borrow or steal (ok maybe not steal) this book and read it. Especially if you are being told by a physician that you need to take cholesterol-lowering drugs to get your cholesterol ‘under control’. It could make the difference between years of suffering or not for you.
The book gives a level-headed, methodical and verifiable review of why medical science came to believe cholesterol is an enemy for us, and the cause of chronic heart disease (CHD). The author disputes conventional wisdom and claims that the very studies the pharmacy giants use to ‘prove’ cholesterol is bad for your health actually prove it is beneficial as well as innocent of the charge of CHD culprit.
As a layman, I benefited greatly from reading this book. I took from it that I don’t need to take dangerous statin drugs to lower my cholesterol, and that I can relax, eat normally and exercise to maintain my good health. The author gives specific references to each dispute he makes about the industry claims against cholesterol, so that you can research and verify it yourself. And his common sense approach makes more sense than the blanket statements from doctors and scientists about the harmful affects of cholesterol.
Don’t be duped into believing you need drugs to save you from a natural substance the body makes. Read this book first and then form your opinion.
In fact, give this book to your doctor and perhaps enlighten him/her!
Rating: 5 / 5
Excellent synopsis of the heart-diet myth exposes the fallacies behind the whole pharma-driven cholesterol scam. Minimal benefits purported by statins do not warrant the risk of serious side effects, some so subtle the patient doesn’t realize they are happening until it is too late. Pharma-sponsored studies manipulated to support non-existent benefits is well documented and allows the reader to do further investigation if desired. Allows one to draw their own conclusion with the revelation that the medical community does not yet really know the true causes of heart disease even though big-pharma educated doctors would have you believe they do.
Rating: 5 / 5
The book was very informative. I liked, especially, the references to almost every criticism he made on the prevailing sentiment on Cholesterol by the establishment. The book was well written. I definitely feel I know more about the topic than most family doctors.
Rating: 5 / 5
As a practicing internist (primary care physician) I found Ravnskov’s book extremely informative about an issue of the utmost importance to health concerns worldwide. The author has provided convincing documentation of scientific support for his views. I only wish it could become standard reading for physicians and their patients, since it presents us with a foreboding forecast of major health problems arising essentially from the greedy, and I believe immoral, behavior of the pharmaceutical industry. That same accusation applies to some of our most prominent and highly regarded professors in medical schools here and abroad, as well as some of our most respected medical journals. I can only hope this book challenges “the establishment” well enough to save some lives, and lead to a more enlightened public and medical domain.
My only criticism is that Ravnskov’s grammar and syntax are not quite perfect. However, he is certainly “easy to read”, and should be easily understood by any reader.
Rating: 5 / 5