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Hypercholesterolemia is the health issue of the 21st century. By Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD Hypercholesterolemia is the health issue of the 21st century. It is actually an invented disease, a “problem” that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood. High cholesterol […]

Several papers demonstrated the harm this could do. ‘Healthy eating’ tells us to eat low-fat, high-carbohydrate diets but in the last few years of the Twentieth Century several papers demonstrated the harm this could do. Obesity Back in 1932 obese patients on different diets lost weight thus: Average daily losses

The benefits of saturated fats Article from the Weston Price Foundation by Mary Enig, PhD, and Sally Fallon The benefits of saturated fats The much-maligned saturated fats—which Americans are trying to avoid—are not the cause of our modern diseases. In fact, they play many important roles in the body chemistry:

by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD For almost forty years, the lipid hypothesis or diet-heart idea has dominated medical thinking about heart disease. In broad outlines, this theory proposes that when we eat foods rich in saturated fat and cholesterol, cholesterol is then deposited in our arteries in

Saturated fats play many important roles in the body. PC DIETARY GUIDELINES PC DIETARY DANGERS Avoid saturated fats Saturated fats play many important roles in the body. They provide integrity to the cell membrane, enhance the body’s use of essential fatty acids, enhance the immune system, protect the liver and

The idea that a fatty diet leads to heart disease has never been proven Since the low-fat, carbohydrate based “Prudent Diet” or “healthy eating” recommendations were published in the 1980s, many studies have shown that it is based on very shaky foundations indeed. The idea that a fatty diet leads

A Review of Statin Drugs Side Effects and the Misguided War on Cholesterol A Review of Statin Drugs Side Effects and the Misguided War on Cholesterol by Dr. Duane Graveline, M.D. Self-Published, April 2005 Review Published September 13, 2005 “But statin drugs don’t do that.” This was the answer Dr.

I even had one sadly misguided soul write to me the other day telling me I did not “understand” Anthony Colpo, February 23, 2006. On February 8, 2006, the Journal of the American Medical Association delivered a huge blow to advocates of low-fat ‘nutrition’ by publishing the results of the

In ancient times carbohydrates were not readily available except during the spring and summers. This is just a very simplistic overview of the idea of a low carbohydrate diet, which focuses mostly on a higher intake of protein and fat. The basic idea of the low carbohydrate diet is this.

I have this tendency to wander around at lunchtime and see what archers are eating and drinking. I don’t shoot many target tournaments these days (I prefer the other disciplines). Normally just my own club’s indoor and outdoor championships. But in an attempt to entice more of my local club’s