Why everything you’ve been told about cholesterol, diet and heart disease is wrong! by Anthony Colpo
If you have a heart, you should read this book
Our whole understanding of nutrition has been moulded by the paradigm that high cholesterol and fat cause heart disease–known as the lipid theory–and that foods containing these should be avoided or minimally consumed. Instead of eggs for breakfast, we should have cereal or fruit. We should eat poultry and fish as opposed to red meats and cut away all the fat and skin. We also need to avoid butter and use vegetable oils for their polyunsaturated fatty acids.
I accepted this paradigm without question, which led me to embrace a raw, vegan diet as the “optimum” diet, a diet I was never able to adhere to for longer than five days and which kept me obsessing about food. I stumbled upon the paleolithic diet community, and they were all saying the science behind the “lipid theory” was flawed.
The lipid theory says because there is cholesterol in atherosclerotic plaque, it must be the cause of the plaque. Upon this assumption, the entire heart disease industry focuses its efforts on lowering cholesterol by any means possible. It would be like blaming a Band-aid for the cut it covers and trying to remove them from your medicine cabinet. Cholesterol is a necessary component of health, and it turns out low cholesterol is implicated in many diseases, including cancer.
The Great Cholesterol Con can help you understand how the lipid theory was formulated and gained acceptance, the flaws in interpretation of scientific studies as well as the manipulation of data, the studies we don’t hear about showing high cholesterol does not damage the heart, the dangers of low cholesterol, how the low-fat mantra has impacted the health of industrialized nations, the dangers of vegetable oils, and habits that will promote heart health.
This book is comprehensive, covering much more than what I’ve mentioned and citing hundreds of scientific studies, and so it is a bit tedious at times. It took me over a month to get through it. But it was worth the effort.
Let’s ask ourselves, have we seen a decrease in heart disease since embracing the lipid theory in the 1980s? Hardly. In fact, we’ve seen a huge increase in obesity and diabetes on the low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet recommended to us. I’ve heard that some doctors want to put everybody on statins and that they’re even beginning to market them to children. This is unconscionable and we must educate ourselves to prevent this.
Please, if you have a heart, read this book before you start experiencing health issues. If you are taking statins, invest in this book and open your mind to the possibility that you have been lied to by bad science. If the lipid theory base of the pyramid is wrong, then every stone built upon the pyramid is equally faulty.
Now, I’m going to go cook some eggs from happy, free-roaming, pasture-raised chickens.
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I have several of Anthony Colpo’s books including his fat loss book. I appreciate all of them, and the amount of time he has taken to research carefully. I wonder if you could do an interview with him!
I’m definitely going to try.