http://www.newser.com/story/177742/big-problem-with-last-weeks-big-cholesterol-news.html
Big Problem With Last Week’s Big Cholesterol News
THE ONLINE RISK CALCULATOR MAY SIGNIFICANTLY INFLATE RISK
By Kate Seamons, Newser Staff
Posted Nov 18, 2013 7:27 AM CST
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The changes to the way doctors prescribe cholesterol-lowering statins were described last week as “tectonic” and “profound”; today, the New York Times uses the phrase “major embarrassment.” The issue: the online risk calculator introduced by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology to flag candidates for statins may overestimate risk—hugely. The issue was apparently identified a year ago by two Harvard Medical School professors who had reviewed a draft version; their input never made it to those developing the calculator, and the professors noticed the same errors in the final calculator when it was revealed publicly on Tuesday.
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And, there was the announcement by the Gooferment that dietary cholesterol doesn’t impact blood cholesterol numbers.
Disputing decades of “settled science”.
Then, into my email box drops this gem.
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/optimal-cholesterol-level/
Transcript: Optimal Cholesterol Level
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The optimal cholesterol level, the optimal “bad cholesterol” LDL level, Is 50 to 70. Accumulating data from multiple lines of evidence consistently demonstrate that that’s where a physiologically normal LDL level would be. That appears to be the threshold above which atherosclerosis and heart attacks develop.
That’s what we start out at birth with, that’s what fellow primates have, that’s the level seen in populations free of the heart disease epidemic, but we can also look at all the big randomized controlled cholesterol lowering trials. This is graphing the progression of atherosclerosis versus LDL cholesterol. More cholesterol, more atherosclerosis, but if you draw a line down through the points, you can estimate that the LDL level at which there is zero progression is down around 70.
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Atherosclerosis is endemic in our population in part because the average person’s LDL level is up around 130, approximately twice the normal physiologic level. The reason the federal government doesn’t recommend everyone doesn’t shoot for even just under 100, is that despite the lower risk accompanying more optimal cholesterol levels, the intensity of clinical intervention required to achieve such levels for everyone in the population would financially overload the health care system. Drug usage would rise enormously. But they’re just assuming drugs are the only way to get our LDL that low, but those eating really plant based diets may hit the optimal cholesterol target without even trying. Just naturally nailing under 70.
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As regular readers know, I’m changing my diet from mostly meat based to mostly plant based.
In part, because of these “scary videos”.
It’s amazing that “We, The Sheeple” have never heard this simple way of avoiding some really nasty health consequences.
I’m sure my maternal Grandmother would have never fed her family “things that would kill them”.
She died of Colon Cancer. If she’d known, maybe she’d have lived to a ripe old age.
So once again, we have the Gooferment mis-informing us either due to stupidity or laziness, or is there a bunch of Crony Capitalists in the woodpile somewhere.
Drugs are expensive and profitable. A vegan diet not so much so.
I remember one nutritionist on the boob tube pleading that “if your food comes in a box, then you would be better off eating the box!”.
I laughed at the time, but many a true word is carried in a joke!
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