Lose It For Ever – Dave Elger

Diet has hardly any effect on your cholesterol level; the drugs that can lower it often have serious or fatal side effects; and there is no evidence at all that lowering your cholesterol level will lengthen your life.   -An article drawn from Thomas J. Moore’s book, Heart Failure, published by Random House, Inc

More to come!  I’m in the middle of The Great Cholesterol Con by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick who presents convincing evidence that supports Moore’s view on cholesterol, heart disease, and saturated fat- NO CONNECTIONS! 

Lose It For Ever cholesterol, heart disease, saturated fat, Thomas J. Moore

 

So here’s the Atkins diet: in theory, you’re removing virtually all of the carbohydrates, but you don’t tell people to eat less. You tell them to eat as much as they want. It’s like you’re setting the diet to zero carbohydrates, and as much fat as possible. According to conventional wisdom, you should certainly not lose weight and you might even gain it. But here were five studies saying that, lo and behold, people  really do lose weight when you remove the carbohydrates from the diet, and they lose more weight than they do when you tell them to keep the carbohydrates but eat less calories. What’s more, their cholesterol profiles actually improve, so how can fat or saturated fat be bad for your cholesterol, if these high fat, high saturated fat diets make your cholesterol levels better -science writer Gary Taubes- read the facinating interview here. 

This is a growing controversy- stay tuned!

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