A 98-year-old researcher argues that, contrary to decades of clinical assumptions and advice to patients, dietary cholesterol is good for your heart, unless that cholesterol is unnaturally oxidized.
A study concluded that 30% of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease can be prevented in people at high risk if they switch to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, nuts, beans, fish, fruits and vegetables, and even drink wine with meals.
British Medical Journal study shows replacing dietary saturated fats with omega-6 PUFAs increased all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality and mortality from coronary heart disease.
Will the American Heart Association now change their advice, since that advice appears to be leading people to make bad dietary oil choices that is contributing to heart disease?
Twenty years ago, doctors told us to stay away from high-fat foods like eggs, bacon, and butter because they raised cholesterol and could lead to heart disease. But today, that is all changing.
Researchers found that people taking statin drugs had lower levels of CoQ10, which is critical to heart health. They also found that those taking statins had "reduced insulin sensitivity", which leads to type 2 diabetes.
As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.
