Guidelines

[MikePollard]

Further to my last post, here is the Japanese study in full.

It's of considerable length, but I'm sure will be of read by those interested in disentangling dietary controversy:

karger.com/Article/Pdf/381654

As will this:

telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrin...

[sandybrown]

Mike,

Thank you. Lots of new information!

Have an appointment with my GP next week, will discuss the new information and can say NO to medication.

[BarryF]

Mike - thanks for this very useful info. My wife and I have been working under all sorts of misapprehensions (thanks to flawed science) until very recently.

bala - will be interested to hear how you get on next week. I have said 'No' but was under some pressure (not difficult to resist when quoting medication horror stories from well informed forums like this one) and have another test in a few months time.

Barry

[zorro1]

Thanks for posting the whole article - it is massive! Will probably take days and an encyclopaedia to understand and digest properly. For people with Familial Hypercholesterolemia: Chapter 3 is entitled Familial Hypercholesterolemia: The Key to Solving the Cholesterol Myth.

[Penel]

Thanks for posting. Chapter 8 deals with statins. I may have to stick with reading the chapter summaries!

[frankcooper]

Hi Mike, thank you for those links which are very interesting reading.

After reading those links, I think many readers may feel somewhat confused as to how we can....after so many years.... change from blaming saturated fat for heart disease and now saying its OK. How can food science be so wrong? What we need to remember, and its a very important point, is that the big killer has been...and will continue to be... processed vegetable oils containing trans and hydrogenated fats. We need to completely avoid all saturated fats made in oil factories where processors chemically alter liquid seed oils ( ie sunflower, cottonweed etc) and convert them into a solid saturated fat with an unusual molecular structure (and electron configuration) that causes us harm.

Its really important that we only eat saturated animal or plant fats as found in nature.

Whilst its true that sugar consumption in the population needs to be greatly reduced, the real benefits to improving our health cannot occur if we consume man-made fats.

I think most of the viewers on this website probably understand the dangers of processed vegetable oils, but I thought it was worth re-emphasising.

Best Regards, Frank Cooper, Naturopath/Nutritionist

[rocheen]

Hi, has any read this can give a summary. Its heavy reading.