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...
Pravastatin sodium (Lipostat in the UK, Pravachol in the US), one of a new breed of statin cholesterol lowering drugs, is using a different marketing ploy to increase the drug's market share flat ...
Cholesterol lowering drugs should be offered only as a last resort, a government funded body has reported. Patients should first be encouraged to stop smoking, take exercise and improve their diet ...
* Have your cholesterol checked and switch to a low-cholesterol diet, if necessary, to avoid gallstone development.
High cholesterol is accepted by virtually everyone as a passport to a heart attack. Doctors have also suspected that low cholesterol is linked to other dangerous conditions, such as cancer, stroke ...
The ghost of cholesterol has at last been laid to rest. In the cover story this issue, WDDTY panel member Dr John Mansfield has collated all the research into the nutritional causes of heart dise ...
Questran is one of a host of drugs routinely prescribed to lower supposedly raised cholesterol levels in patients. Prescriptions of cholesterol lowering drugs generally are on the up and up. Acco ...
Pravastatin, the cholesterol lowering drug, is no better than placebo, a leading heart specialist has concluded. For every case of heart attack the drug prevents, 316 patients would have to be tr ...
John Whitcomb
What Doctors Don't Tell You