This study was published in
Circulation 1990 Dec;82(6):1916-24 Study title and authors: An analysis of randomized trials evaluating the effect of cholesterol reduction on total mortality and coronary heart disease incidence. Holme I. Life Insurance Companies' Institute for Medical Statistics, Ullevaal Hospital, Oslo, Norway. This study can be accessed at:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2242517The study investigated the relationship between cholesterol reduction and death rates by analysing the results of 19 randomized clinical cholesterol reduction intervention trials (by drugs and diet). The 19 trials included 103,598 subjects and lasted between two and ten years.
The study found that those who had the cholesterol lowering treatment had a 3.7% increased risk of death compared to those who had no cholesterol lowering treatment.
Comment: A person with low cholesterol levels is at an increased risk for infection, autoimmune diseases and the much dreaded chronic inflammation which has a role in every single disease. In fact, you'll likely die if you go through a septic blood poisoning event with low cholesterol levels.
Cholesterol drugs have the biggest drug profits in the history of the world. Profits buy a lot of propaganda (such as lobbyists), advertising and marketing to doctors, including free continual medical education. And instead of investing all the billions they earn in public education of the importance of fats, they are only seeking to demonize fats and see in what other conditions they can push cholesterol-lowering drugs too to perpetuate their top sales rankings AND the debilitation of people in general. A healthy diet is rich animal fat, but God forbid the masses would switch to their ancestral diet which made them thrive for millions of years.
There is hardly a better way to dumb down, appease the masses, and most especially profit and depopulate the world than through what we eat. As Gary Taubes, author of
Why We Get Fat and
Good Calories, Bad Calories has pointed out,
Indeed, the history of the national conviction that dietary fat is deadly, and its evolution from hypothesis to dogma, is one in which politicians, bureaucrats, the media, and the public have played as large a role as the scientists and the science. It's a story of what can happen when the demands of public health policy--and the demands of the public for simple advice--run up against the confusing ambiguity of real science.
Saturated animal fat and its protein are the cure to many of mankind's modern diseases that stares us in the face. For more information read
Life Without Bread and
Ketogenic Diet: Path to Transformation?
The quacks give them to me and I throw them in the bin. Safest place for them. Also animal fats are not just saturated. There are monosaturates for example in them and natural trans fats which are beneficial. The trans fats in vegetable oils are of molecular species which do not occur in nature and damage cell and mitochondrial membranes reducing glucose transport hence metabolism hence obesity.