Fat and Cholesterol Don't Cause Heart Attacks and Statins are Not The Solution

This book is dedicated to Uffe Ravnskov, MD, Ph.D. for his seminal and propaedeutic achievements in disputing the dogma that fat and cholesterol cause coronary heart disease, and that statins are safe and cardioprotective for everyone. As will be seen, no studies support the notion that restricting fat reduces coronary morbidity or mortality. More importantly, government recommendations mandating low fat diets are likely the cause of the escalating epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Several chapters detail the panoply of significant adverse health effects of statins that have been ignored or suppressed in reports of drug company sponsored trials. These include promoting the development of coronary atherosclerosis and congestive failure. In addition, the putative benefits of statins are clearly unrelated to lowering LDL or cholesterol, but rather anti-inflammatory and especially anticoagulant activities. This clotting or "atherothrombotic" hypothesis appears to explain all of the factors known to cause or protect against coronary heart disease. Other chapters by THINCS members discuss the role of infections and sulfur deficiency, and the numerous ways data are doctored to hype the benefits and minimize the dangers of statins. All of these contributions expose the fallacies of the lipid hypothesis, which was called "the greatest scientific deception of this century, perhaps of any century" by the distinguished nutritionist George Mann, former Co-Director of the Framingham Study.

• The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It
• The Truth About Statins: Risks and Alternatives to Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs
• The Dark Side of Statins: Plus: The Wonder of Cholesterol
• The Great Cholesterol Myth Now Includes 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease-and the Statin-Free Plan that Will
• Doctoring Data: How to sort out medical advice from medical nonsense
• The Statin Damage Crisis
• A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-health World
• Lies My Doctor Told Me Second Edition: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health
• Nutrition in Crisis: Flawed Studies, Misleading Advice, and the Real Science of Human Metabolism