This study was published in Medical Services Journal Canada 1963 Jun;19:410-20Study title and authors:Serum lipid levels and the severity of coronary and cerebral atherosclerosis in adequately-nourished men, 60-69 years of age.PATERSON JC, ARMSTRONG R, ARMSTRONG EC.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13941824This study measured the cholesterol levels of 42 war veterans aged 60-69 at post-mortem to investigate the relationship between cholesterol levels and blockage of the arteries.The study found:(a) There was NO correlation between cholesterol levels and...
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
Saturday, 24 December 2011
Ancel Keys 6 countries study actually shows the more animal fat and animal protein you eat, the longer you live!
This study was published in the Journal of the Mount Sinai Hospital, New York 1953 Jul-Aug;20(2):118-39.Study title and author:Atherosclerosis: a problem in newer public health.KEYS A.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13085148This study examined the effect of fat consumption and death rates from heart disease in males aged 55-59 from 6 countries.In this study Keys set out to prove that a higher fat intake was associated with a higher death rate from heart disease.He used data from 6 countries (Japan, Italy, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and USA)...
Wednesday, 21 December 2011
Women should not be prescribed statins as they fail to provide any overall health benefit
This article was published in the British Medical Journal 2007 May 12; 334(7601): 983Study title and author:Should women be offered cholesterol lowering drugs to prevent cardiovascular disease? NoMalcolm Kendrick, general practitioner24 Prestwick Close, Tytherington, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2THThis paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1867901/?tool=pubmedDr. Kendrick believes there is little or no evidence of health benefits for women taking statins. He makes the following observations:(a) To date, none of the large trials of secondary prevention...
Monday, 19 December 2011
Low cholesterol levels are associated with an increase in death rates especially from cancer
This study was published in the British Medical Journal 1995 Aug 12;311(7002):409-13Study title and authors:Low serum total cholesterol concentrations and mortality in middle aged British men.Wannamethee G, Shaper AG, Whincup PH, Walker M.Department of Public Health, Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/76405847,735 men aged 40-59 were followed for nearly 15 years to examine the relationship between low cholesterol levels and causes of mortality.The study found:(a) Men with low cholesterol (below 4.8 mmol/l...
Both low cholesterol levels and declining cholesterol levels are associated with increased risk of death from suicide in men
This study was published in the British Medical Journal 1996 Sep 14;313(7058):649-51Study title and authors:Serum cholesterol concentration and death from suicide in men: Paris prospective study I.Zureik M, Courbon D, Ducimetière P.National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Unit 258, Hôpital Broussais, Paris, France.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8811757The aim of the study was to investigate whether low cholesterol levels or changing cholesterol levels are associated with the risk of suicide in men. The study contained 6,393 working men,...
Low cholesterol associated with liver cancer
This study was published in the British Medical Journal 1993 Apr 3;306(6882):890-4Study title and authors:Prolonged infection with hepatitis B virus and association between low blood cholesterol concentration and liver cancer.Chen Z, Keech A, Collins R, Slavin B, Chen J, Campbell TC, Peto R.Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Infirmary.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8490412Hepatitis can be caused by viruses that primarily attack the liver cells, such as hepatitis B. About one fifth of the patients with...
Low cholesterol levels lead to increased cancer and death rates
This study was published in the British Medical Journal 1980 Feb 2;280(6210):285-7Study title and authors:Cholesterol and mortality in New Zealand Maoris.Beaglehole R, Foulkes MA, Prior IA, Eyles EF.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7357343The relationship between cholesterol levels and mortality was studied over 11 years in 630 New Zealand Maoris aged 25-74.The study found:(a) Men with lower cholesterol had an 130% increased risk of death compared to men with higher cholesterol.(b) Women with lower cholesterol had a 90% increased...
As saturated fat and cholesterol increase in the diet, then rates of heart attack and death decrease
This study was published in Arteriosclerosis 1989 Jan-Feb;9(1):129-35Study title and authors:Test of effect of lipid lowering by diet on cardiovascular risk. The Minnesota Coronary Survey.Frantz ID Jr, Dawson EA, Ashman PL, Gatewood LC, Bartsch GE, Kuba K, Brewer ER.Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.This study can be accessed at: http://atvb.ahajournals.org/content/9/1/129.longThis study compared the effects of 2 diets cholesterol levels and the incidence of heart attacks, sudden deaths, and all-cause mortality. The trial included 9,057 men and women.The diets...
As animal fat intake is doubled, stroke incidence decreases by 60%
This study was published in Circulation 1989 Mar;79(3):503-15Study title and authors:Trends for coronary heart disease and stroke and their risk factors in Japan.Shimamoto T, Komachi Y, Inada H, Doi M, Iso H, Sato S, Kitamura A, Iida M, Konishi M, Nakanishi N, et al.Institute of Community Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2783893This study assessed the changes in risk factor trends for coronary heart disease and stroke during a 20 year period in a population of 7,030.The study found:(a) Cholesterol...
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Saturated fat can help to lower the rates of heart disease
This study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine 2011 Dec 6;155(11):742-50Study title and authors:Association of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol with incident cardiovascular events in women, by low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and apolipoprotein b100 levels: a cohort study.Mora S, Buring JE, Ridker PM, Cui Y.The Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and Merck & Co., North Wales, Pennsylvania.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2214771326,861...
Friday, 16 December 2011
Low fat diets increase heart disease risk
This study was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Vol. 70, No. 6, 992-1000, December 1999Study title and authors:HDL-subpopulation patterns in response to reductions in dietary total and saturated fat intakes in healthy subjectsLars Berglund, Elizabeth H Oliver, Nelson Fontanez, Steve Holleran, Karen Matthews, Paul S Roheim, Henry N Ginsberg, Rajasekhar Ramakrishnan, Michael Lefevre and for the DELTA InvestigatorsDepartment of Medicine and Pediatrics, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge,...
Low levels of cholesterol are predictive of higher rates of death in patients with end-stage renal disease
This study was published in Nephron Clinical Practice 2011;119(3):c214-9Study title and authors:Reverse epidemiology of lipid-death associations in a cohort of end-stage renal disease patients.Bowden RG, La Bounty P, Shelmadine B, Beaujean AA, Wilson RL, Hebert S.School of Education, Baylor University, Waco, Tex., USA.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21832847End-stage kidney disease is the complete or almost complete failure of the kidneys to work. Reverse epidemiology is a term which says that obesity and high cholesterol may be protective...
Anger and hostility levels rise on a low fat diet - whereas anger, hostility, tension and anxiety decline on a high fat diet
This study was published in the British Journal of Nutrition 1998 Jan;79(1):23-30.Study title and authors:Alterations in mood after changing to a low-fat diet.Wells AS, Read NW, Laugharne JD, Ahluwalia NS.Centre for Human Nutrition, University of Sheffield, Northern General Hospital, UK. a.s.wells@sheffield.ac.ukThis study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9505799This study examined the effects on mood of reducing dietary fat in ten male and ten female healthy volunteers aged between 20 and 37 years.Each volunteer consumed a diet containing 41% energy as...
Stroke patients with low cholesterol are more likely to die and have poor neurological outcomes
This study was published in Advances in Therapy 2008 Apr;25(4):329-41Study title and authors:Serum lipid levels and 3-month prognosis in Chinese patients with acute stroke.Li W, Liu M, Wu B, Liu H, Wang LC, Tan S.Department of Neurology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, 610041, Chengdu, PR China.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18414815The study examined whether cholesterol levels at admission had any prognostic value in the 3-month outcome in 649 patients with acute ischaemic stroke and intracerebral haemorrhagic stroke.The study...
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
Almost all epidemiological and experimental studies show that a reduction in saturated fat has NO health benefits
This paper was published in Nutrition and Health 2010, Part 2, 109-119Study title and author:Is saturated fat bad?Ravnskov UThis paper can be accessed at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/hg528868531r617u/Ravnskov notes that for decades a reduction of the intake of saturated fat has been the cornerstone in dietary prevention of cardiovascular disease. The main argument for this advice is its alleged influence on blood cholesterol.However in this review Ravnskov found:(a) Several recent trials have found that saturated fat intake has no such effect on cholesterol in...
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Low cholesterol levels are associated with higher death rates in stroke, heart failure, and cancer
This study was published in the Journal of Epidemiology 2011;21(1):67-74Study title and authors:Low cholesterol is associated with mortality from stroke, heart disease, and cancer: the Jichi Medical School Cohort Study.Nago N, Ishikawa S, Goto T, Kayaba K.Tokyo-kita Social Health Insurance Hospital, Clinical Education Center, Kita-ku, Tokyo, Japan. nago@jadecom.or.jpThis study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21160131This study of 12,334 healthy adults aged 40 to 69 years investigated the relationship between low cholesterol and mortality and...
Low cholesterol levels lead to a 20.2% increase in death rates in those who have had a stroke
This study was published in the European Journal of Neurology 2011 Dec 5Study title and authors:Serum cholesterol levels and survival after rtPA treatment in acute stroke.Roquer J, Cuadrado-Godia E, Rodríguez-Campello A, Jiménez-Conde J, Martínez-Rodríguez JE, Giralt E, Ois A.Servei de Neurologia, Hospital del Mar, Parc de Salut Mar-IMIM, Barcelona Grup de Recerca Neurovascular, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22136724The aim of this study was to analyze the impact of cholesterol levels...
Monday, 12 December 2011
Low cholesterol levels are an accurate predictor of higher mortality levels in the nondemented elderly
This study was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2005 Feb;53(2):219-26.Study title and authors:Relationship between plasma lipids and all-cause mortality in nondemented elderly.Schupf N, Costa R, Luchsinger J, Tang MX, Lee JH, Mayeux R.G. H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15673344The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between cholesterol levels and risk of death from all causes in nondemented...
Red meat as a treatment for heart failure, angina and weight loss
This paper was published in Current Drug Metabolism Volume 12, Number 7, September 2011 , pp. 667-678(12)Study title and authors:L-Carnitine - Metabolic Functions and Meaning in Humans Life.Pękala J, Patkowska-Sokoła B, Bodkowski R, Jamroz D, Nowakowski P, Lochyński S, Librowski T.Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław, Poland. stanislaw.lochynski@pwr.wroc.pl.This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21561431In this review Pekala notes:(a) L-carnitine is used for...
Older men and women with low cholesterol have a 39% higher risk of death
This study was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003 Jan;51(1):80-4.Study title and authors:Does inflammation or undernutrition explain the low cholesterol-mortality association in high-functioning older persons? MacArthur studies of successful aging.Hu P, Seeman TE, Harris TB, Reuben DB.Multicampus Program in Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA. phu@mednet.ucla.eduThis study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12534850This study examined the association between cholesterol levels and...
For each 1-mmol/L (38mg/dL) decrease in cholesterol levels, heart failure patients have a 26% increase in mortality risk
This study was published in Kardiologiia 2007;47(8):12-6.Study title and authors:Cholesterol and glucose levels belong to independent predictors of death and hospitalizations in patients with chronic systolic heart failure.Smetanina IN, Deev AD, Gratsianskiĭ NA.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18260904This study of 130 patients with systolic chronic heart failure, was designed to elucidate the relationship of cholesterol levels with the number of deaths and hospitalizations of the patients for heart failure worsening over a 1.4 year period....
Soy consumption associated with the formation of malignancies and several anomalies of the reproductive systems
This paper was published in the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism 2010 Sep;23(9):855-61.Study title and authors:Soy as an endocrine disruptor: cause for caution?Bar-El DS, Reifen R.School of Nutritional Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel.This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21175082Bar-El notes that endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) alter the function of the endocrine system and consequently cause adverse health effects. Phytoestrogens, natural plant compounds abundantly found in soy and soy products,...
Sunday, 11 December 2011
High saturated fat diets DECREASE heart disease risk factors
This study was published in Nutrition and Metabolism 2006, 3:7Study title and authors:Comparison of isocaloric very low carbohydrate/high saturated fat and high carbohydrate/lowsaturated fat diets on body composition and cardiovascular riskManny Noakes, Paul R Foster, Jennifer B Keogh, Anthony P James, John C Mamo and Peter M CliftonCSIRO Health Sciences and Nutrition, Adelaide, AustraliaThis study can be accessed at: http://www.nutritionandmetabolism.com/content/3/1/7The objective of this study was to compare, the effects of a high saturated fat very low...
Cholesterol lowering medication is linked to higher depression rates
This study was published in Psychopharmacology Bulletin 2003;37(4):92-8.Study title and authors:Cholesterol-lowering medication and relapse of depression.Steffens DC, McQuoid DR, Krishnan KR.Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. steff001@mc.duke.eduThis study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15131520This study examined the effects of taking cholesterol-lowering medication on outcomes of depression among 167 older depressed adults over 6 years of duration.The study found:(a) Those taking cholesterol lowering medication...
Higher cholesterol levels help to decrease Parkinsons disease
This study was published in the Public Library of Science (PLoS One) 2011;6(8):e22854Study title and authors:Serum cholesterol and the progression of Parkinson's disease: results from DATATOP.Huang X, Auinger P, Eberly S, Oakes D, Schwarzschild M, Ascherio A, Mailman R, Chen H; Parkinson Study Group DATATOP Investigators.Department of Neurology, Pennsylvania State University-Milton Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America. Xuemei@psu.eduThis study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21853051The study was designed to test the hypothesis...
Low cholesterol levels are strongly associated with increased mortality in patients with nonischemic, systolic heart failure
This study was published in the American Heart Journal 2006 Dec;152(6):1077-83.Study title and authors:Total cholesterol levels and mortality risk in nonischemic systolic heart failure.Afsarmanesh N, Horwich TB, Fonarow GC.Ahmanson-UCLA Cardiomyopathy Center, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17161056Nonischemic heart disease is a disease of the heart that lacks the associated coronary artery disease often found in other diseases of the heart. It's usually linked to a disease in one or more...
Friday, 9 December 2011
Low fat diets increase the risk factors for heart disease
This study was published in the American Journal of Cardiology 2000 Jan 1;85(1):45-8.Study title and authors:High carbohydrate diets, triglyceride-rich lipoproteins, and coronary heart disease risk.Abbasi F, McLaughlin T, Lamendola C, Kim HS, Tanaka A, Wang T, Nakajima K, Reaven GM.Stanford University School of Medicine, California, USAThis study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11078235High triglyceride levels and low (HDL-C) high-density lipoprotein - cholesterol levels are associated with higher rates of heart disease.The study compared the effects of variations...
Low cholesterol levels lead to an increased death rate of 47% compared to high cholesterol levels
This study was published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2003 Jul;51(7):991-6.Study title and authors:Low total cholesterol and increased risk of dying: are low levels clinical warning signs in the elderly? Results from the Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging.Brescianini S, Maggi S, Farchi G, Mariotti S, Di Carlo A, Baldereschi M, Inzitari D; ILSA Group.Laboratory of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. sonia.brescianini@iss.itThis study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12834520The objective of the study was...
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Meat and seafood may enhance the quality of life for people with intermittent claudication
This study was published in Vascular Medicine February 2000 vol. 5 no. 1 11-19Study title and authors:Nutritional therapy for peripheral arterial disease: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized trial of Heart BarAndrew J Maxwell, Barbara E Anderson, John P CookeDivision of Research and Development, Cooke Pharma, Inc., Belmont, CA, USAThis study can be accessed at: http://vmj.sagepub.com/content/5/1/11.shortThe study investigated the clinical effects of bars of food enriched in l-arginine in individuals with claudication from atherosclerotic peripheral...
20 year study shows those with the lowest cholesterol levels have a 35% increase in death rates compared to those with the highest cholesterol
This study was published in the Lancet 2001 Aug 4;358(9279):351-5.Study title and authors:Cholesterol and all-cause mortality in elderly people from the Honolulu Heart Program: a cohort study.Schatz IJ, Masaki K, Yano K, Chen R, Rodriguez BL, Curb JD.Clinical Epidemiology and Geriatrics Division, Department of Medicine, John A Bums School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1356 Lusitana Street, 7th Floor, Honolulu, HI 96813-2427, USA. schatzi@hawaii.eduThis study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11502313The study investigated the relationship between cholesterol...
A review of recent scientific data clearly demonstrates that dietary cholesterol is NOT correlated with increased risk for heart disease
This paper was published in Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care 2011 Oct 26Study title and author:Rethinking dietary cholesterol.Fernandez ML.Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA.This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22037012The study reviewed the recent evidence that challenges the current recommended dietary restrictions regarding cholesterol consumption.The review found:(a) The data clearly demonstrates that dietary cholesterol is not correlated with increased risk for heart...
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Statins increase the risk of colon adenomas by 54%
This study was published in the Journal of gastrointestinal cancer 2011 Sep 6Study title and authors:Association of Type 2 Diabetes and Colon Adenomas.Eddi R, Karki A, Shah A, Debari VA, Depasquale JR.Division of Gastroenterology, Seton Hall University School of Health and Medical Sciences, South Orange, NJ, USA, rodney_eddi@yahoo.com.This study can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21894459An adenoma is a benign tumor (-oma) of glandular origin. Adenomas can grow from many organs including the colon, adrenal glands, pituitary gland, thyroid, prostate, etc. Although...
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