Summary of Jonny Bowden & Stephen Sinatra's The Great Cholesterol Myth

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 We believe that cholesterol, while not the cause of heart disease, is a minor character in the heart disease story. We believe that the real causes of heart disease are inflammation, oxidation, sugar, and stress.
#2 The 1990s saw the rise of the Atkins diet, which promoted eating fat and protein to lose weight. It was believed that because Atkins diet was high in saturated fat, it would cause heart disease. But many people lost weight easily following his program.
#3 I began to wonder if the theory that cholesterol causes heart disease was wrong. study after study on high-protein, low-carb diets showed that the blood tests of people on these diets were similar to Al’s. Their health actually improved.
#4 The Weston A. Price Foundation is a group that advocates for unprocessed foods, including butter, raw milk, and grass-fed meat. They believe that the real initiators of damage in the arteries are oxidation and inflammation, not cholesterol.

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Santé du quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Santé au quotidien
• Heart

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 09 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669352204
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Jonny Bowden & Stephen Sinatra's The Great Cholesterol Myth
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7 Insights from Chapter 8 Insights from Chapter 9
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

We believe that cholesterol, while not the cause of heart disease, is a minor character in the heart disease story. We believe that the real causes of heart disease are inflammation, oxidation, sugar, and stress.

#2

The 1990s saw the rise of the Atkins diet, which promoted eating fat and protein to lose weight. It was believed that because Atkins diet was high in saturated fat, it would cause heart disease. But many people lost weight easily following his program.

#3

I began to wonder if the theory that cholesterol causes heart disease was wrong. study after study on high-protein, low-carb diets showed that the blood tests of people on these diets were similar to Al’s. Their health actually improved.

#4

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a group that advocates for unprocessed foods, including butter, raw milk, and grass-fed meat. They believe that the real initiators of damage in the arteries are oxidation and inflammation, not cholesterol.

#5

I was constantly butting heads with my clients’ doctors, who completely bought into the myth that saturated fat will kill you by clogging your arteries and raising your cholesterol.

#6

Cholesterol is a raw material made by your liver, brain, and almost every cell in your body. It makes up a major part of the membranes surrounding cells and the structures within them.

#7

The brain is rich in cholesterol and relies on it for neuronal communication. Lower levels are linked to poorer cognitive performance.

#8

Many patients who went off statin drugs told me that their strength, energy, and vitality returned after going off them. The drugs may have been effective at lowering cholesterol levels, but they also depleted the body of CoQ10, a vital nutrient that is made in every cell in the body and a major chemical participant in the production of cellular energy.

#9

I now believe that cholesterol is a minor player in the development of heart disease. I still prescribe statins, but only to middle-aged men who have already had a first heart attack, coronary intervention, or coronary artery disease.

#10

A study known as the Lyon Diet Heart Study tested the effect of different diets on heart disease, and found that the Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes fresh fruit and vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nutes, healthy fats like olive oil, and seafood, was effective at reducing heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths.

#11

The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine refused to publish the study. It was eventually published in another highly regarded medical journal, The Lancet.

#12

There are countless examples of this, from the Vytorin cholesterol-lowering drug study to the Nurses’ Health Study, which found that five factors lower the risk of heart disease: don’t smoke, drink alcohol in moderation, exercise moderately, maintain a healthy weight, and eat a low-glycemic diet.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

There are three cases listed above, and only one has any business being on a cholesterol-lowering drug. Can you guess which one it is. By the end of this book, you’ll know more about cholesterol than most doctors in America.

#2

Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is an important constituent of cell membranes. It is made in the liver and is absorbed from the diet. Cholesterol is the basic raw material that your body uses to make vitamin D, sex hormones, and bile acids.

#3

The New School generally believes that higher levels of HDL are desirable, but research is concentrating on the function of HDL subtypes rather than the total amount.

#4

LDL is not the same. LDL-A is a buoyant, fluffy molecule that does no harm whatsoever as long as it is not damaged by oxidation. LDL-B is a small, hard, dense molecule that promotes atherosclerosis.

#5

The effect of dietary cholesterol on blood cholesterol is very variable and individual, and for most people, the effect of dietary cholesterol on blood cholesterol is insignificant.

#6

The cholesterol myth is the belief that cholesterol is the cause of heart disease, which is outdated. It was proposed in 1953 by a young, ambitious biologist named Ancel Keys, who believed that heart disease was caused by too much fat in the diet.

#7

The diet-heart hypothesis was that excess cholesterol in the blood, not the diet, was the cause of heart disease. But when researchers analyzed data from all 22 countries, they found that the correlation between fat, cholesterol, and heart disease literally vanished.

#8

The paradox of the fat-is-bad hypothesis is that there are countries where the per capita fat intake is the same, but the rate of cardiovascular disease is vastly different.

#9

The Seven Countries Study was the cornerstone of current cholesterol and fat recommendations and official government policy. It examined saturated fat consumption in seven countries, and, lo and behold, it found a straight-line relationship between heart disease, cholesterol levels, and saturated fat intake.

#10

The 1961 American Heart Association dietary guidelines were based on the theories of Dr. Ancel Keys, which were not widely known outside scientific circles. But they were about to change.

#11

The Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, headed by McGovern, was responsible for transforming the idea that dietary fat causes heart disease from a not-so-solid hypothesis into solidified dogma.

#12

The theory that fat and cholesterol cause heart disease was widely accepted, but was later found to be flawed. The adoption of this theory by mainstream organizations and the government had a strong political component to it.

#13

The fat-cat ranchers were compared to the tobacco industry, while the grain lobbyists were seen as the good guys, on the side of science, health, granola, and the well-being of the American people.

#14

The low-fat diet was the new religion of the masses, and it was left up to the science to catch up. In 1980, the National Institutes of Health funded half a dozen studies that found low-fat diets prolonged lives. Not exactly.