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Lynne McTaggart and Bryan Hubbard
EditorsB
ad theories die hard, and one of those that seems to
have the gift of eternal life is the cholesterol theory
of heart disease. It was launched on faulty science,
the famed Seven Countries Study conducted by American
physiologist Ancel Keys, who claimed to show that
countries whose population consumed a high-fat diet had
a higher incidence of heart disease.
Over the years, his ‘high dietary fat equals high
cholesterol, which equals blocked arteries and heart attacks’
theory spawned a giant low-fat food industry and also a
giant cash cow for the drug companies. Statins, which claim
to lower cholesterol and so prevent heart disease, have been
among the drug industry’s bestselling money spinners of all
time, even now, with patents expiring and cheaper generic
drugs available.
The problem is that nobody has ever
been able to prove that high cholesterol is
the culprit. And those that claim to have
done so turn out to have deliberately
hidden or manipulated data showing that
the entire cholesterol theory is wrong.
Several years ago, researchers at the US
National Institutes of Health (NIH) found
a discrepancy in old data from the 1960s
and ’70s involving 9,000 patients—the
largest study ever of diet, cholesterol and heart disease.
Far from demonstrating that a ‘heart-healthy’ vegetable
oil-based diet lowered the incidence of heart disease, those
patients given vegetable oils turned out to have a higher
incidence of fatal heart attack than those who consumed
saturated fats.
As the NIH researchers discovered, the study had been
held onto for 16 years, and by the time it was published
in 1989, all the inconvenient truths had been left out or
massaged away.
Then, a few years later, the US Surgeon General’s Office
carried out 11 years’ worth of research to examine the link
between fats in the diet and heart disease, but shut down the
project in 1999 for lack of evidence.
By 2014, even Time magazine had outed Keys, revealing
that he had cherry-picked the data, choosing “the countries
most likely to confirm his hypothesis, while excluding
nations like France—where the diet is rich in fat but heart
disease is rare—that might have challenged it.”
And in the UK, after re-analyzing the six most rigoroustrials on cholesterol, researcher Zoe Harcombe from the
University of the West of Scotland found an absolutely
identical incidence of death from heart disease among
approximately1,200 men given healthy heart diets high
in vegetable oils and 1,200 controls, who ate normally.
Although cholesterol levels had been vastly reduced in the
vegetable oil group, that did not translate into a single
life saved.
Nevertheless, the fact that the cholesterol theory has been
demonstrated, again and again, to be at best misguided, at
worst a deliberate deceit, hasn’t made one bit of difference to
modern medicine’s views about the causes of heart disease
and its treatment.
With so much money at stake, few people are willing to
dismantle the giant cholesterol industry. Low-fat foods
and drinks generate around $8 billion in
sales every year and account for 99 percent
of sales growth in the entire American
food industry. Estimates are that by 2020,
worldwide sales of statins will hit the
$1 trillion mark. Presently, 37 million
Americans take a statin every day.
Fortunately, evidence is appearing here
and there about the alternative causes of
heart disease and better and safer cures. As
Celeste McGovern investigates this month (see page 28), the
true culprit behind heart disease was never cholesterol. It’s
actually insulin resistance.
In fact, one of the latest studies labels insulin resistance
“the most important single cause of coronary artery disease,
which, if tackled, could nearly halve heart attack rates.”
The bottom line is that the answer to heart disease is
fairly rudimentary, a matter of simple dietary and lifestyle
changes, and many alternative therapists have great success
in preventing or successfully treating it with a number of
treatments and supplements. But those treatments have
nothing to do with eliminating saturated fats.
Conventional medicine is too enmired in the profit
motive to look further than the idea that fat in the diet
ends up in the coronary arteries. It’s time to look at the
wider picture—the nutrient-starved processed food, the
sedentary lifestyle, the insane stress and busyness, the shift
from family cohesion to isolation.
And once you can walk away from that lifestyle, even to
some degree, you’ll also walk away from heart disease.The big fat lie
❝
The true culprit
behind heart
disease was never
cholesterol—it’s
actually insulin
resistance
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