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Entries Tagged as 'Cholesterol Con'

Exposing the Cholesterol Con

February 22nd, 2010 · 72 Comments · Bad Science, Cholesterol Con

[Just a quick off-topic aside. Darya Pino at Summer Tomato did a mildly critical but fair & balanced post on paleo dieting. Go take a look and drop a comment about your own experience if it suits you. From my perspective, we out to be able to take fair criticism to refine & strengthen our [...]

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Saturated Fat and Coronary Heart Disease, Part V: The “Science”

January 19th, 2010 · 23 Comments · Bad Science, Cholesterol Con, Conventional Wisdom, Epidemiology, Low Fat Ignorance

Before I begin, I’ll simply point you to part one of the series and you’ll find the links to all the other parts there.
So it’s time to discuss the "science" behind the idea that saturated fat intake leads to heart disease. Let’s begin with pure observational epidemiology and then move on to the more solid [...]

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Shyam Kolvekar: The Most Stupidest Man in The World

January 18th, 2010 · 46 Comments · Bad Science, Cholesterol Con, Low Fat Ignorance, Modern Ignorance

Here’s an idea. How about the butter trade groups get together and create a new ad campaign featuring this heart surgeon dingbat. They could style it after the fabulous "Most Interesting Man in The World" Dos Equis commercials. Hell, they wouldn’t even have to create any new dialog to get started right way. It could [...]

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Can Cholesterol Get Any More Complicated?

December 29th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Cholesterol Con, Low Fat Ignorance

I might have to put updates up as I continue to gather information (emails out to vetting sources) but I thought I’d put this up as a starter, maybe generate some conversation.
I’ve posted a lot about cholesterol and how and why I don’t generally see it as a problem for most people on a good [...]

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Saturated Fat and Coronary Heart Disease, Part IV: The Smell Test

December 19th, 2009 · 45 Comments · Cholesterol Con, Conventional Wisdom, Epidemiology, Low Fat Ignorance

In this Part IV of the series (Part I; Part II; Part III), I have decided to do go about this in a different way than I’d indicated before. I covered the Paleo Principle in Part II, but more in terms of our having evolved to eat meat and not with a lot of specifics [...]

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