Friday, April 18, 2008

Why people with high cholesterol live the longest

"People with high cholesterol live the longest. This statement seems so incredible that it takes a long time to clear one´s brainwashed mind to fully understand its importance. Yet the fact that people with high cholesterol live the longest emerges clearly from many scientific papers. Consider the finding of Dr. Harlan Krumholz of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University, who reported in 1994 that old people with low cholesterol died twice as often from a heart attack as did old people with a high cholesterol.1 Supporters of the cholesterol campaign consistently ignore his observation, or consider it as a rare exception, produced by chance among a huge number of studies finding the opposite."

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1 comment:

Jeff Iversen said...

Wow, what a great article. It is about time that people woke up and stopped taking statin drugs. This obsession with cholesterol has got to stop. The only people that are benefiting are the pharmaceutical companies and the doctors that push their drugs.

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