We have done articles before about LDLs and HDLs. By and large, HDLs are protective and function as your body’s garbage trucks. They scour your arteries for left-over cholesterol and take it back to your liver for reprocessing. You want a high HDL...
Nuts - you’ve just gotta love ’em. They’re the friendly food that brings you many more benefits than you expected. Be a good buddy to nuts, invite them to breakfast, lunch, or dinner and discover the tasty, healthful surprises they’ll deliver.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the developed world. Although this disease employs more doctors than any other branch of medicine, recent discoveries show some fundamental flaws in our understanding of it - particularly the basic...
The new evidence debunking cholesterol lowering isn't license to tuck into bacon and chips every day. As a number of writers demonstrate, the problem is that medicine has probably fingered the wr ...
Many of us could do with a major rethink of our daily dietary fat intake. For some, this will mean cutting back while, for others, it means reorganising our diets to eat more or different types of fats.
Lowering serum cholesterol levels may actually increase the risk of death from stroke, recent research suggests. ...
Doctors may be pushing statins like mad for everything from osteoporosis to Alzheimer's disease, but patients aren't having it. Although the use of statin drugs has increased fourfold between 1996 ...
Medical experts have finally agreed that cholesterol-lowering drugs are being given out unnecessarily to people. ...
The latest medical word on heart disease is: if you want to reduce your risk of heart disease, forget low fat margarine, stick to butter, and eat plenty of walnuts. ...
AS THEY TAKETH AWAY, II: Anyone for green tea?
John Whitcomb
What Doctors Don't Tell You