Archive for July, 2015

We are winding down our synopsis of the book, “The Great Cholesterol Myth,” only a few posts remain.

Let’s take a look at the class of drugs used to lower our blood cholesterol levels, called Statin Drugs.

What you should know:

• The benefit of Statin Drugs have been widely exaggerated.
• Statin Drugs deplete the co-enzyme Q10, an important nutrient for the heart.
• Depletion of Co-Q10 can cause muscle pain, weakness and fatigue.
• The brain depends on cholesterol to function optimally and help stimulate thinking and memory.
• Statin ...

The case against Canola Oil:
The success of canola oil and its reputation as the healthiest of oils is a triumph of marketing over science. Canola Oil is typically extracted and refined using very high heat and petroleum solvents (such as Hexane). Then it undergoes a process of refining, degumming, bleaching and because it stinks, deodorization using even more chemicals. The only kind of canola oil that could be ok is organic, cold pressed, unrefined, which hardly anyone ...

Chapter 5: The Truth About Fat: It’s not what you think

You can’t talk about cholesterol without also talking about fat. Lets clear up some misconceptions about fat- What is it? What it does? What it doesn’t Do? and Why it matters in the first place?

What exactly is fat anyway?
Fat is the collective shorthand name given to any big collection of smaller units called fatty acids. You can think of “Fat” and “Fatty Acids” as analogous to paper ...