Does Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease?
In this 77-second video, Dr. Malcolm Kendrick proves that there is absolutely no correlation between heart disease and cholesterol.
I challenge you to watch this video and try to go on believing that the lipid hypothesis is valid.
You might want to send this video to the people you know who are still living the Low-fat Lie. All those poor souls who are deathly afraid of butter, dutifully taking their statin drugs, still drinking skim milk (what I call “white water”) and eating low-fat frozen yogurt (I mean really, what is the sense of that, when you can have ice cream?).
Then bring on the triple cream cheese, the butter, and the bacon.
I think I’ll have Eggs Benedict for breakfast. With extra Hollandaise sauce. And extra cream in my coffee.
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26/08/2009 at 10:43 am Permalink
Yeah! I am so glad someone it saying this out loud. I do however think that perhaps there’s a difference between cholesterol from healthy fat and that from trans fats and processed fats. Perhaps that what studies should be looking at.
Fat is good for you in so many ways and we need to spread the word! I agree, we eat a fat-rich diet and our friends are amazed that we’re so thin. They see us eating real butter, drinking raw whole milk, saving bacon grease and using it for frying eggs & potatoes and they scratch their heads since they all eat “low-fat” granola bars for snacks, processed foods with added vitamins etc and they’re sick more often and have trouble maintaining a healthy weight. Not to mention all of our food tastes great! No cardboard here.
26/08/2009 at 12:54 pm Permalink
interesting. i have been eating high fat low carb for a few yrs now. since then my good chol has gone up but so has my bad chol which i have to say concerns me a bit. i’ve also started having some problems with my digestion – gallbladder.
monique
26/08/2009 at 1:36 pm Permalink
Can you believe this – I’ve never had my cholesterol checked. And you know what, I doubt I ever will.
26/08/2009 at 9:19 pm Permalink
Monique – Are you also eating/drinking fermented veggies and drinks? Do you make broth from scratch?
I eat or drink something fermented with all my meals and make sure my young sons do too.
I’m no expert on food at all but I do think if one is eats a “Nourishing Traditions” diet, one needs to make sure to eat fermented foods/drinks to aid digestion.
26/08/2009 at 10:01 pm Permalink
I really find this interesting. This is a topic that I am very concerned about because heart disease is a big problem on my father’s side. My dad has had two open heart surgeries and has lived to be 70 (which is longer than any other males in his family). Heart disease is a big problem on that side of my family. I am 34 and have had high cholesterol since I was about 30, but not high enough to be put on a statin drug, thank goodness. I am also hypothyroid and when my thyroid isn’t were it should be I know it can affect my cholesterol. My husband has high cholesterol and has high triglycerides, so much so that he has what is considered a “fatty” liver. We have slowly started following a NT diet in the past few months. In fact two weeks ago I made a deal with my hubby that if he could give up Mountain Dew he can buy the new trailor he’s been wanting. He’s been off it for almost two weeks, which is a huge accomplishment for him. Don’t get me started on how addicting soda is!!
Anyway, I guess what I want to ask you is what, in your opinion, do you think does contribute to heart disease? What part of the NT diet should we be focused on? We both need to lose about 50 lbs, which I know will also help our hearts, but what else? Thanks so much.
27/08/2009 at 8:05 am Permalink
Love this. Thanks for sharing!
Lanise, I know that Ann Marie will have a lot of info to offer, but I’m going to gander and say trans fats and sugars/simple carbs that turn to fat when they aren’t burned off.
As for Monique, I’d want to know what kind of fats. They aren’t all created equal.
It’s an interesting debate.
27/08/2009 at 8:29 am Permalink
Ann Marie,
I agree with you on not checking your cholesterol levels. What for? Do you actually think the doctors even know what the numbers mean???
27/08/2009 at 9:24 am Permalink
Hi, Lanise,
Please read this article on the Weston A. Price Foundation website: What Causes Heart Disease?
Excerpt:
The interesting thing is that most cases of heart disease in the twentieth century are of a form that is new, namely heart attack or myocardial infarction—a massive blood clot leading to obstruction of a coronary artery and consequent death to the heart muscle. Myocardial infarction (MI) was almost nonexistent in 1910 and caused no more than 3,000 deaths per year in 1930.
It’s very interesting to me that heart disease was unheard of before 1900, and at that time people were eating large amounts of saturated fat. Just look at a cookbook from that time period. Everything was cooked in lard or tallow or butter, and served with butter and heavy cream.
See my post on beef tallow French fries — I listed the fats that were commonly used in cooking in 1890, compared to the fats that were used in 1990 (credit to Dr. Mary Enig):
http://www.cheeseslave.com/2009/08/07/beef-tallow-french-fries/
Prior to 1910, dietary fats primarily consisted of butterfat, beef tallow, and lard. Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat
Crisco was introduced in 1911.
You might want to read Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride’s book on the topic, Put Your Heart In Your Mouth. You can it on the GAPS Diet store — it’s listed on my resources page.
One thing I want to mention. Mountain Dew is particularly bad for the thyroid — and of course, being hypothryoid slows your metabolism and makes it hard to lose weight.
Read this: http://www.naturalthyroidchoices.com/MtDew.html
Also, regarding high cholesterol and hypothyroidism — those two things go together like peanut butter and jelly. The thyroid controls your cholesterol level, so if you have a sluggish thyroid, your cholesterol will naturally be higher.
http://thyroid.about.com/cs/hypothyroidism/a/cholesterol.htm
An interesting anecdote:
Last spring, my in-laws both saw a huge, sudden drop in their cholesterol levels about a month or two after they started eating baked oatmeal that had been soaked in kefir 4 times a week. That was the only change they made to their diet. They have always eaten oatmeal a few times a week so they knew it wasn’t the oatmeal. They thought at first maybe it was the soaking in kefir.
That particular recipe has a lot of coconut oil in it — they were eating around 1-2 TBS of coconut oil 4 times per week.
I think maybe that is what caused the drop in cholesterol numbers. Coconut oil is very nourishing to the thyroid gland. It makes sense that if they started eating coconut oil regularly and nourished their thyroid glands which would make them work better, their cholesterol would drop.
This is why they say coconut oil is also good for weight loss — because they say it helps to nourish your thyroid, which would speed up your metabolism.
Here’s the post I did on that:
http://www.cheeseslave.com/2009/04/20/nutrition-news-roundup-coconut-oil-lowers-cholesterol-improves-thyroid-function/
27/08/2009 at 9:56 am Permalink
Ann Marie -
I have been really getting into all these traditional food ways and was looking to see if there are any nutrition schools that you know as a WAPF chapter member (leader?) that actually practice and instruct in national food ways and healing modalities?
Thanks so much,
Lindsay Young
lindsayrose.y@gmail.com
27/08/2009 at 10:01 am Permalink
Lindsay – I was wondering the same thing!
03/09/2009 at 6:03 am Permalink
Interested in the reference on Australian Aboriginals. Their traditional diet would be animals and animal fat and whatever else they could find in their local environment, which is another point, Australia is vast, and the food available will be slightly different, eg Torres Straight Islanders have a a seafood based diet, which can be high in cholesterol, ie crustaceans. So is his reference to Aboriginals on SAD (Standard Australian Diet)? I know that the aboriginals like any native population introduced latently to a European diet high in simple carbs and lots of alcohol almost immediately become overweight and diabetic.
24/09/2009 at 5:57 am Permalink
What you may not know about cholesterol
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8140456102398881820#docid=1725508023557801994