HIGH CHOLESTEROL DOES NOT CAUSE HEART DISEASES
Study of 997 adults found that high cholesterol does not cause heart disease.
(JAMA, 1994;2272:1335-40)
The University of California reviewed cholesterol of over 136,000 admitted after a heart attack. 75% had healthy cholesterol. Nearly half had higher than normal levels of HDL.
After the analysis of 76 studies involving close to 650,000 participants, researchers from
Cambridge University UK did not find any evidence that the amount of saturated fats consumed had any impact on heart disease.
(Ann Intern Med, 2014;160:398-406)
A Dutch study found that people 85 and above with high cholesterol lived longer and were less likely to die of cancer and infections. (Lancet, 1997;350:1119 – 23)
Researchers from Texas A and M University found that adults with higher LDL, the so called ‘Bad cholesterol had the leanest muscles mass after work out.
(J Gerontol ABiol Sci Med Sci, 2007;62:1164-71)
A team of researchers from Israel led by Dr Harold Kahn studied the diet of 10,000 civil servants. These people had a variable intake of fat from 10 grams daily to over 200 grams daily. However, the scientists found no correlation between fat intake and cholesterol levels.
In other words, cholesterol levels are not determined by a person’s consumption of fat.
Researchers from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island followed 3,630 middle-aged men and women in Costa Rica split into two groups – those who had suffered a heart attack, and healthy individuals who haven’t. They discovered that both groups consumed similar levels of supposedly ‘harmful’ saturated fats including milk, cheese, yoghurt, butter, meat.
Some consumed up to 593 gram of fat daily. Only one of them suffered a heart attack.
(Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis, 2012;22:1039-45)
Researchers found after studying 724 participants with an average age of 89 that each 1 mmol/l increase in total cholesterol corresponds to a 15% drop in the mortality rate. Those with the highest levels of cholesterol lived the longest and cholesterol seemed to protect them against diseases such as cancer and infection.
(Lancet, 1997;350:1119-23)
A study of over 1000 people aged 65 and older found that those suffering from dementia had significantly lower levels of total cholesterol including so-called good and bad cholesterol
(J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2010;65:559-64)
WHO (World Health Organisation) discovered when examining the link btw high cholesterol and heart disease a giant paradox: that the countries with the highest cholesterol levels had the lowest death rate and those with the lowest cholesterol had highest death rate.
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