Tram Town
Thursday, June 15, 2006
| Category: Cholesterol I'm a big fan of Spiked Online as a source of news commentary and, largely, good old common sense. This article about cholesterol prompted a bit of research which led me to this article entitled New cholesterol guidelines for converting healthy people into patients. The author of the latter, Uffe Ravnskov, is a spokesman for THINCS, The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics. The Spiked article is a must read, the Ravnskov is very interesting and further reading may be dangerous to the health of your relationship with your doctors. My current position is that pharmaceutical firms have way too much influence on which research is given prominence in the journals. Just One Guy's Opinion™. ALSO... I had a doctor tell me recently that peasant farmers in China have very low cholesterol levels and a very low rate of heart disease. From the Spiked article: One regularly quoted fact, which superficially seems supportive of [this] hypothesis, is that peasant farmers in China have very low cholesterol levels and a very low rate of heart disease (although their average cholesterol levels are actually about four, not two-and-a-half). |
