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    Debunking Heart Health Myths: Why Cholesterol Is Essential for Life and Why Statins Are Dangerous
    Debunking Heart Health Myths: Why Cholesterol Is Essential for Life and Why Statins Are Dangerous
    Debunking Heart Health Myths: Why Cholesterol Is Essential for Life and Why Statins Are Dangerous
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    Debunking Heart Health Myths: Why Cholesterol Is Essential for Life and Why Statins Are Dangerous

    By Loraine Holden

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    People are afraid of heart disease. They accept the theory that it is caused by cholesterol and saturated fat and don't eat those foods. Doctors, the media and drug companies convince them to take statins, drugs that lower body cholesterol. Except for the one in a million with a genetic defect that causes very high cholesterol, no one should take a drug that poisons the liver enzyme that makes cholesterol. Cholesterol is necessary for life. It's in all cell membranes and is the main chemical in the brain and nerves. It's the basis for vitamin D, sex hormones and adrenal hormones, The book cites research and medical doctors who go against the common practice of trying to get a patient's LDL cholesterol as low as possible by using statins. Statins can cause muscle pain and brain effects like depression, suicide and dementia. Organic saturated fat from animals or from coconut are healthful. The fats to avoid are artificial trans-fats, like margarine, and most plant oils that promote inflammation as well as containing insecticides. The last half of the book explains how high blood pressure whether from nicotine, insulin or stress, acts with a faulty diet to cause the plaque in your arteries. It tells how sugar is related to heart disease after it causes obesity and diabetes. The worst sweetener is high-fructose corn syrup. It causes your liver to make excess LDL cholesterol as well as blood fats. The book concludes with 12 suggestions on how to prevent a heart attack and keep from taking statins. It lists books by MDs as well as those whose articles you can read on line to convince your doctor not to prescribe statins.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLoraine Holden
    Release dateJan 17, 2015
    ISBN9780975506417
    Debunking Heart Health Myths: Why Cholesterol Is Essential for Life and Why Statins Are Dangerous
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    Loraine Holden

    Loraine Holden's ProfileLoraine Holden is a maverick. Having grown up in Colorado she prefers a rocky trail to a smooth road. Her life shows diversity. She accepts the scientific method but rejects authorities if their conclusions don't make sense. She will be 88 in February, 2015, but wants to experience more of the natural world. She hikes, kayaks and goes bird watching here and in foreign countries, but no longer goes skiing, diving or windsurfing. After she overcame arthritis, she wrote the book "Don't Get Thin Get Healthy" It emphasizes natural cures for many metabolic conditions. A more complete bio, listing her MS in physiology, 3 years in medical school, research and teaching pre-med subjects follows the text in this e-book.

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      Book is really good in sense that it removes all doubts regarding ill effects of fat and cholesterol.
      It has really gone in depth and vividly explained all pro and cons of eating habits.
      Well researched . Great!!
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      A quick primer on the facts about cholesterol your doctor did not tell you. Read this. It is well written and does not require days or a degree in medicine to understand.

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    Debunking Heart Health Myths - Loraine Holden

    Debunking Myths

    about Heart Health

    Why Cholesterol Is

    Essential for Life

    and

    Why Statins

    Are Dangerous

    By Loraine Holden

    Debunking Myths about Heart Health: Why Cholesterol Is Essential for Life and Why Statins Are Dangerous

    © 2015, Loraine Holden

    Published by Golden Green Press

    Fair Oaks, California

    ISBN 978-0-9755064-1-7

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used, reproduced, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information retrieval system without the prior written consent of the copyright holder.

    Introduction

    Fear of Heart Disease

    Are you so afraid of dying from heart disease, the number one killer of Americans, that you are willing to take a drug that can harm your brain, your liver, kidneys, and muscles? The idea that dietary saturated fat and cholesterol produce heart disease seems to be ingrained in the national psyche. The media, most doctors, and the pharmaceutical companies dictate that you need to lower the cholesterol in your blood.

    Cholesterol is not like a virus or bacteria that you want to get rid of. Cholesterol is necessary for life itself.

    My father died at age 72, probably from heart disease. He had a couple of heart attacks in his forties that were helped by bed rest and taking nitroglycerine for chest pain. In those days, he didn’t know that nicotine could constrict blood vessels. At least he only used cigars or a pipe. This was usually in the evening. I do remember him chewing on the end of an unlit cigar when woodworking in his shop. He didn’t smoke when working in the woods for the US Forest Service. When my sisters and I went hunting with him, he never smoked on the trail. But by age fifty, he slowed down. I remember carrying his thirty-ought-six deer rifle for him as we went up and down Colorado mountains that seemed steeper for him. Life-long vigorous exercise kept him going. In his sixties, he went arrow head hunting on flatter slopes in Arizona and went beach combing with me and my family in Baja California with no trouble. His diet always included red meat and fat. This was from wild game or local grass fed beef.

    For the past twenty years I have avoided buying beef, pork, or chicken from grocery stores after hearing that they are now being produced in factory farms. This means they might have hormones, antibiotics, insecticides, and other toxins in the meat or fat. I eat organic eggs and use more than a pound of cheese a week from

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