October 2013 Maryanne Demasi is a doctor and a TV producer on the official Australian television ABC. During the last year she has been preparing two television shows about the cholesterol campaign. We have corresponded for more than a year, …
August 2013 Recently the International Atherosclerosis Society published their new guidelines for the management of “atherogenic” blood lipids. The number of misleading statements is almost endless. Let me comment some of the most serious ones. Here they come. “Some elevation …
May 2013 Is the Cochrane Collaboration still reliable? Doctors and researchers have great confidence in the Cochrane Collaboration. It is a non-profit organization consisting of a group of over 28,000 volunteers in more than 100 countries and said to be …
March 2013 One of the most cited papers in support of the official dietary guidelines is “Seven Countries” by Ancel Keys. Those of you who have read my books know, that Keys was a cheat. For instance, in his paper …
February 2013 Many interesting things are happening just now, so therefore I send you yet another February newsletter. Let me start with the French professor Philippe Even, whose book “La Vérité sur le cholestérol” (Editions du Cherche-Midi) is going to …
February 2013 According to the current dietary guidelines we shall exchange saturated fatty acids with polyunsaturated fatty acids to avoid cardiovascular disease. But what is the difference between saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids you may ask. The main part of …
January 2013 In my april 2012 newsletter I referred to Duane Graveline´s report about memory loss due to statin treatment. Duane has researched further in FDA´s archive and I can tell you, it is much, much worse. Anyone who is …
December 2012 In my October 2012 newsletter I told you how it is possible to manipulate our minds to think that statins protect against almost everything. Here is another example. Last month Danish researchers published a paper in New England …
October 2012 Right and wrong about statin treatment Statin treatment accelerates atherosclerosis Recently two separate studies showed that people on statin treatment develop atherosclerosis more often than untreated people. One of them was published in Diabetes Care, the other one …
September 2012 For many years Unilever has marketed its margarine Becel pro-activ (Flora pro-activ) and certain yoghurt products with the argument that they lower cholesterol. The cholesterol-lowering effect is due to the addition of plant sterols extracted from soya beans …