Mainstream doctors and Big Pharma are constantly pushing people to lower their cholesterol -- especially LDL. They say lower cholesterol is good and high cholesterol causes heart attacks and strokes. They try to get people on statins to lower cholesterol. Lipitor (a statin) is the biggest selling Big Pharma drug of all time.
But ... they are WRONG about cholesterol.
Most "studies" about cholesterol are just questionnaires, such as "How much meat did you eat last month?" or "how many vegetables do you eat on an average day?"
These are GARBAGE "studies" because people can't remember what they ate -- at least, not to any specificity. And some fudge because they want to appear to be doing "healthy" things.
Additionally, people who eat at fast food restaurants tend to be less health-conscious and also less healthy. "Researchers" will claim that if they eat a Big Mac often, then they are eating meat and that is why they are unhealthy. BUT, they ignore the bun (loaded with anti-nutrients and gluten), the many chemicals in the "special sauce," the "cheese" that is derived from petrochemicals, the french fries that are cheap potatoes fried in seed oils, and the "extra large Coke" loaded with sugar (remember the old, "Supersize me?").
But, they say ... it must be the meat ... pfft.
Turns out, there was a great cholesterol study that was kept hidden from the public.
From 1968-1973, researchers ran the "Minnesota Coronary Experiment."
Scientifically, this was an excellently-designed study because the researchers were able to control what the participants ate and what they did not eat, how much, etc.
There were over 9,000 people in the study. All were either confined in mental hospitals or in a nursing home. So, the researchers could know what they were eating.
They gave half of the "subjects" food with saturated fat (milk, cheese, beef, etc.), and the other half low or no saturated fat (corn oil, vegetable oils, etc.)
The researchers wanted to prove that a diet high in saturated fat was harmful to health.
But oops!
They got the OPPOSITE result.
The higher the saturated fat in the diet, the FEWER deaths occured.
This study never made the scientific journals back then -- possibly because the journals were run by people who were anti-saturated fat and didn't want to publish it.
Dr. Frantz was the head of the research team. He died and his son found the papers for the study several years later. He released it -- more than 40 years after it had been done.
The story was published in the New York Times (of all rags!) -- 10 years ago. I never heard about this until now.
Here are some excerpts form the article:
A four-decades-old study — recently discovered in a dusty basement — has raised new questions about longstanding dietary advice and the perils of saturated fat in the American diet.
The research, known as the Minnesota Coronary Experiment, was a major controlled clinical trial conducted from 1968 to 1973, which studied the diets of more than 9,000 people at state mental hospitals and a nursing home.
During the study, which was paid for by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and led by Dr. Ivan Frantz Jr. of the University of Minnesota Medical School, researchers were able to tightly regulate the diets of the institutionalized study subjects. Half of those subjects were fed meals rich in saturated fats from milk, cheese and beef. The remaining group ate a diet in which much of the saturated fat was removed and replaced with corn oil, an unsaturated fat that is common in many processed foods today. The study was intended to show that removing saturated fat from people’s diets and replacing it with polyunsaturated fat from vegetable oils would protect them against heart disease and lower their mortality.
So what was the result? Despite being one of the largest controlled clinical dietary trials of its kind ever conducted, the data were never fully analyzed.
Several years ago, Christopher E. Ramsden, a medical investigator at the National Institutes of Health, learned about the long-overlooked study. Intrigued, he contacted the University of Minnesota in hopes of reviewing the unpublished data. Dr. Frantz, who died in 2009, had been a prominent scientist at the university, where he studied the link between saturated fat and heart disease. One of his closest colleagues was Ancel Keys, an influential scientist whose research in the 1950s helped establish saturated fat as public health enemy No. 1, prompting the federal government to recommend low-fat diets to the entire nation.
The results were a surprise. Participants who ate a diet low in saturated fat and enriched with corn oil reduced their cholesterol by an average of 14 percent, compared with a change of just 1 percent in the control group. But the low-saturated fat diet did not reduce mortality. In fact, the study found that the greater the drop in cholesterol, the higher the risk of death during the trial.
The findings run counter to conventional dietary recommendations that advise a diet low in saturated fat to decrease heart risk. Current dietary guidelines call for Americans to replace saturated fat, which tends to raise cholesterol, with vegetable oils and other polyunsaturated fats, which lower cholesterol.
The younger Dr. Frantz said his father was probably startled by what seemed to be no benefit in replacing saturated fat with vegetable oil.
“When it turned out that it didn’t reduce risk, it was quite puzzling,” he said. “And since it was effective in lowering cholesterol, it was weird.”
Walter Willett, the chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, called the research “irrelevant to current dietary recommendations” that emphasize replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat.
LOL!
To investigate whether the new findings were a fluke, Dr. Zamora and her colleagues analyzed four similar, rigorous trials that tested the effects of replacing saturated fat with vegetable oils rich in linoleic acid. Those, too, failed to show any reduction in mortality from heart disease.
“One would expect that the more you lowered cholesterol, the better the outcome,” Dr. Ramsden said. “But in this case the opposite association was found. The greater degree of cholesterol-lowering was associated with a higher, rather than a lower, risk of death.”
LOL, again!
Oh, there's more ...
In 2013, Dr. Ramsden and his colleagues published a controversial paper about a large clinical trial that had been carried out in Australia in the 1960s but had never been fully analyzed. The trial found that men who replaced saturated fat with omega-6-rich polyunsaturated fats lowered their cholesterol. But they were also more likely to die from a heart attack than a control group of men who ate more saturated fat.
Note: I highlighted Ancel Keys' name because he is the ASSHOLE who started this whole "saturated fat is bad" in the 1950's.
He did a fraudulent "study" where he claimed to look at 7 countries that showed that the more saturated fat in the diet, the higher the death rate from heart disease. But ... HE LIED. He actually looked at 22 countries, and cherry-picked the 7 to make his case.
He went on the 3 TV networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) in New York, so he was on ALL the TV stations that existed back in the 1950's. Everybody got the message he was pushing, but when other researchers of the time checked his analysis, they realized there were 22 countries, not 7 -- and there was NO CORRELATION when you looked at all 22.
He worked for the Rockefellers and was paid off BIG by the sugar companies to push his agenda -- the financial payoff having been discovered years later.
He worked at the University of Minnesota, which is why he was involved in this research, and my guess is he is the reason it was never published.
He was one of the biggest conmen in American history when it comes to the misunderstandings that Americans have had all these years as to what is healthy to eat and what is not.
If you want to learn more about what is healthy and the fraud that Ancel Keys pushed on the American people, here is a great lecture by David Diamond on the general subject: "How Bad Science and Big Business Created the Obesity Epidemic" --
Big Pharma wasn't wrong, THEY WERE LYING!!!! They have done nothing but lie about everything. All Vax are bad, cholesterol isn't the problem, never has been. Kids don't need sixty or 70 shots. VAX does cause autism. The list is longer than i can type out this evening. But I will soon