Heart Disease Misinformation
The Framingham Study, conducted over a number of years with citizens from Framingham Massachusetts, had become the benchmark for decades on the nature of heart disease and its supposed causes. In the initial stages of the study it was shown that there was elevated serum cholesterol levels in a number of the participants who went on to experience what would be considered as heart disease symptoms later on.
People suffering from type 2 diabetes are constantly being told by their doctors and dietary nutritionists alike that saturated fats are the cause of heart disease. Doctors tell them to stay away from anything containing this ingredient. They are being told this because they have a greater chance of suffering from heart disease.
The truth is, those type of fats are NOT the cause of cardiovascular disease. There are some facts to prove that it’s not the saturated fats that’s causing this killer disease, but it’s the packaged, processed, sugar, and refined foods that everyone is consuming that is really causing an alarmingly high percentage rate of heart disease in our country currently.
Cholesterol has long been considered as the main culprit for cardiovascular heart disease. Hence, the “cholesterol scare” was over sensationalized by laboratories, drug companies and doctors as it translate to big profits for them. To find out if there is truth behind the so called dogma that cholesterol alone is the cause of heart problems, let us consider the following facts about heart disease:
1. The consumption of cholesterol has remained stable over the past century while cardiovascular disease has skyrocketed.