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The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It |  | Author: Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
Publisher: John Blake
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ISBN: 1844546101
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Publication Date: October 1, 2008
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Statins are the so-called "wonder drugs" widely prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels that claim to offer unparalleled protection against heart disease. Many experts claim that they are completely safe and that they are also capable of preventing a whole series of other conditions. This groundbreaking study exposes the truth behind the hype surrounding statins and reveals a number of crucial facts, including that high cholesterol levels do not cause heart disease; that high-fat diets—saturated or otherwise—do not affect blood cholesterol levels; and that for most men and all women the benefits offered by statins are negligible at best. Other data is also provided that shows that statins have many more side affects than is often acknowledged. This hard-hitting survey also points a finger at the powerful pharmaceutical industry and an unquestioning medical profession as perpetrators of the largely facetious concepts of “good” and “bad” cholesterol that are designed to convince millions of people to spend billions on statins. With clarity and wit, this appeal to common sense and scientific fact debunks common assumptions on what constitutes a healthy lifestyle and diet, as well as the idea that there is a miracle cure for heart disease.
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 Everybody Used to Know This June 30, 2010
Morley Evans (CANADA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Great Cholesterol Con by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is splendid! Kendrick is funny as well as insightful.
After demolishing conventional theory about diet and heart, paying particular attention to cholesterol, Dr. Kendrick concludes that Statin drugs are of no use to women or to men who do not have heart disease -- according to the studies that everyone has used to build the anti-cholesterol empire which has earned hundreds of billions of dollars for the pharmaceutical companies. The conclusions that have been reached are contradicted by the studies themselves. What has happened has all been driven by vast amounts of money. Statins benefit less than 5% of the population and for them Statins can add a few months to their lives if they already have heart disease, according to the studies. This benefit is due to something other than lowering cholesterol, but what? Detracting from nebulous benefits are a superabundance of side-effects. A vast financial empire cannot be built on a foundation like that. Now, can it?
(This leads us to the uncomfortable realization that someone is lying, doesn't it? Can vast numbers of experts be lying? Yes, they can. This is exactly the same phenomenon as Global Warming.)
Dr. Kendrick makes the case that heart disease is created by unhealthy stressors which lead to HPA-axis dysfunction which leads to abnormal cortisol levels which leads to factors that damage the endothelium as well as factors that increase blood clotting leading to plaque growth and heart disease.
How can one avoid Coronary Heart Disease? Abundant fruits and vegetables, exercise, moderate alcohol consumption, and gracious living are the keys to being healthy. Avoid sugar and tobacco; drink water; sleep 8 hours a night. Never eat on the run. I would add sunshine for Vitamin D. Everybody used to know this before the "researched-based" pharmaceutical companies took over when our grandmothers departed.
An entertaining book about a serious subject May 22, 2010
Iona Tamsin Stewart (Odense, Denmark)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've previously reviewed Uffe Ravnskov's book on the same subject - "Fat and cholesterol are good for you". I thought that was a great, essential read, but this book is even better.
Kendrick like Ravnskov demolishes what he calls the diet-heart hypothesis (aka the Cholesterol hypothesis) and quotes from Blackadder - "It is wronger than a very wrong thing".
His basic theses are:
1) A high-fat diet saturated or otherwise does not affect cholesterol levels.
2) High cholesterol levels don't cause heart disease.
3) Statins do not protect against heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels.
4) The protection provided by statins is absolutely negligible and non-existent for women.
5) Statins have nasty side-effects including causing horrible deformities in babies.
In a study carried out by the author on saturated fat consumption in various countries, it turned out that every single one of the seven countries with the lowest saturated fat consumption had significantly greater rates of heart disease than every single one of the seven countries with the highest saturated fat consumption.
Other studies confirmed that a low cholesterol level after the age of 5o (and under 50 for men) is significantly associated with all-cause mortality. In a study from France of women living in a nursing home, the lowest mortality was at an average cholesterol level of 7.0 mmol/l, while the highest mortality was at an average cholesterol level of 7.0 mmol/l. It is dangerous to have low cholesterol levels! - under the age of 50 there is a 429% increased risk of death per 1 mmol/l cholesterol drop according to the Framingham study and after the age of 50 a low cholesterol level is associated with a significantly greater overall mortality.
These are just a few of the facts I've plucked from the book. A chapter is devoted to the dangers of statins and the author also delves deeply into the actual causes of heart disease, concluding that stress is the main causal factor, particularly what he terms "social dislocation" - ethnic cleansing, migration to another country, or when an entire society or population is forced to undergo massive change.
Kendrick (like myself) is a Scot, and his style of writing is highly entertaining, so this is in no way a dull book, though the subject-matter is deadly serious.
I strongly recommend this book to everyone.
 ANOTHER STATIN DROP-OUT May 18, 2010
Helen Epstein (massachusetts)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great to have one's suspicions documented! I'm one of the growing number of people with genetically determined high cholesterol for whom statins cause serious side effects. When I finally had a consult at a cholesterol clinic in Boston, I was told that my chances of having a heart attack or developing a heart condition in the next ten years was 2%. This over-prescription of statins will go down as one of the biggest boondoggles of the last few decades. As a journalist ([...]), I was tempted to investigate the reasons for it on my on but this book does it for me. Kudos to the author!!!
CHOLESTROL March 30, 2010
Glen Mowrey (GRAHAM, NC)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a must-read book for anyone debating whether or not to take something to lower cholesterol.
 Good overview and thought provoking. March 23, 2010
Rane J. Kocan
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The author does a great job of explaining a basic overview of the process by which the body actually makes cholesterol, pointing you in the direction of further information if you'd like. He breaks down how it is not actually the consumption of fats and cholesterol that leads to raises cholesterol levels/heart disease, and provides other factors that do, according to his stance - which I believe to be correct. The writing is a good blend of science and at times sarcastic cheeky humor.
Rane j.
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