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Old 08-24-2007, 08:04 PM   #1
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Not Worried About My High Cholesterol

I am now convinced that the theory that high cholesterol causes heart disease has been created by the drug companies and the American Heart Association to sell cholesterol lowering drugs. And angiograms, angioplasty, and bypass surgery offer no advantage at all to the great majority of heart patients but they do allow surgeons, hospitals, and all sorts of other players to make billions at the expense of the patients. Read Heart Frauds by Charles McGee and Why Animals Don't Get Heart Attacks by Matthias Rath and you will see why. They are both MDs and they both say that your body uses cholesterol, calcium and other blood fats to repair the lesions in your arteries which happen when you don't get enough vitamins, C, B vitamins, E. The first time I checked my cholesterol in 1983 it was 305 and now it is about 283 to 300. The doctors wanted to put me on statins and they had me do a heart scan and carotid ultra sound during the last year and both showed that I had zero plaque. My blood pressure has always been around 110-120 over 65-70. The high cholesterol did not cause any plaque in my arteries because I have been taking vitamins since the early1980s. Here are two intriguing questions: why does high cholesterol causes plaque when low cholesterol doesn't according to the medical experts? And since arterial plaque is mostly calcium and cholesterol, why all the fuss about lowering blood cholesterol and not the calcium level in your blood? They are both components of arterial plaque. Maybe they don't have a drug that can lower calcium but they are making their money on statins. Just follow the money trail to find the answer. Look at all those statins TV commercials. They are making billions. Ask your doctor to give you the studies and evidence that show that high cholesterol cause heart disease.

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Old 08-25-2007, 01:28 AM   #2
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Re: Not Worried About My High Cholesterol

Yes... it seems to be a decision between two evils... I'm hoping niacin plays a good non-partisain role...

 
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I quite agree with you aamsaams1. I was frightened half to death by my doctor who said if I didn´t start taking statins, it would just be a matter of time before I had a heart attack. I took them for a couple of years, but then after reading a lot of reports and listening to peoples experiences with them I decided to stop. I feel so much better now. I then started to go away from a low fat diet and started to eat more animal fat and hey presto my HDL went up. I think it is frightening how we are constantly being lied to by the drug and food industry and how they cook their books for more profit. The rubbish that the food industry produce is what gets us ill like hydrogenetic vegetable oils trans fats etc, margarines and yoghurts that have additives that they claim we have to eat not to suffer heart desease . My feelings are, and a lot of others, is that animal fat is not what gives us heart failure, it is the above rubbish that is the real cause.

 
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I quite agree with you aamsaams1. I was frightened half to death by my doctor who said if I didn´t start taking statins, it would just be a matter of time before I had a heart attack. I took them for a couple of years, but then after reading a lot of reports and listening to peoples experiences with them I decided to stop. I feel so much better now. I then started to go away from a low fat diet and started to eat more animal fat and hey presto my HDL went up. I think it is frightening how we are constantly being lied to by the drug and food industry and how they cook their books for more profit. The rubbish that the food industry produce is what gets us ill like hydrogenetic vegetable oils trans fats etc, margarines and yoghurts that have additives that they claim we have to eat not to suffer heart desease . My feelings are, and a lot of others, is that animal fat is not what gives us heart failure, it is the above rubbish that is the real cause.
My doctor tried to scare me too by telling me that the high cholesterol was going to kill me. Maybe the drug companies train the doctors to say that. The junk food we eat contains no vitamins or minerals which your body uses to keep the arteries healthy. Plus they contain all kinds of substances you mentioned that are harmful. I think the most important thing people can do is to take vitamins and minerals because even if you eat organic food you won't even get the RDA of vitamins and minerals. The soil the food is being grown on is not that good anymore. Even if you take all these green superfoods that cost a lot, you hardly get any vitamins or minerals out of them.

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Old 08-25-2007, 09:53 AM   #5
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Re: Not Worried About My High Cholesterol

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like every other commercial on TV is pushing a pharmaceutical brand....yes, there's something to that. Pharmaceutical companies seem to have a lot of control.

Just my two cents,
Blessings,
Kelly

 
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