For decades, physicians, dieticians, and nutritionists parroted the government’s recommendation to avoid cholesterol. But as we now know, that recommendation was all wrong, all along. Informed [...]
Category: cholesterol
Eating chocolate lowers difficult-to-treat heart condition
I write often about the benefits of dark chocolate for your heart and your brain. Studies show it protects against heart disease, dementia and stroke. Plus, new research reveals that chocolate [...]
New studies reveal this unexpected “brain food” boosts memory and beats dementia
Some researchers who are still drinking the mainstream “cholesterol Kool-Aid” got quite a surprise recently when they studied the effects of dietary cholesterol and egg consumption on brain [...]
Avoiding red meat is sabotaging your health
A massive, new study shows eating red meat does NOT raise your heart disease risk. By now, it should be an old story. The government’s old nutritional advice about avoiding dietary cholesterol [...]
The best-selling drug that’s a “total waste of time”
An international panel of experts just published their findings in the British Medical Journal Open that cholesterol does not cause heart disease in men and women over 60 years of age. And trying [...]
New cholesterol drug costs 200 times as much as statins — and performs just as poorly
The New York Times runs the slogan, “all the news that’s fit to print” on its masthead. And on April 3, 2016, The Times finally saw fit to print an impartial review of a new, expensive [...]
Another trillion-dollar “epidemic” created by big pharma
Earlier this year in my Daily Dispatch, I reported on an important statin drug study led by Dr. Robert DuBroff of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. I recently heard personally from [...]