SCIENTIST QUESTIONS BENEFITS OF LOW FAT DIETS

By Sally FallonEpidemiological studies do not support the notion that diets high in animal fats cause heart disease. For instance, mortality from coronary heart disease in southern India was found to be seven times higher than in the north and people in the south died...

PREVENTING PARKINSON’S WITH CO-ENZYME Q10

October 21, 2002In recent years, a number of high profile celebrities have put a very human face on the debilitating effects of Parkinson’s disease. Most notably, we’ve seen how actors Michael J. Fox and Katherine Hepburn, Pope John Paul II, and former...

ZOCOR RAISES INSULIN LEVELS

From www.Dr. Mercola.comDespite the well-documented benefits of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, a new study from Finland shows that diet can still make a difference in patients taking these drugs when it comes to keeping cholesterol under control.In a study...

MORE ON THE FOLLY OF CHOLESTEROL-LOWERING DRUGS

Although it became clear that a change in diet had little effect on CHD, that did not end the scientists’ efforts to demonstrate that CHD could be prevented. If diet couldn’t do it, then intervention with drugs would provide the evidence. And since drugs...

THE DANGERS OF LOW CHOLESTEROL

Low blood cholesterol and cancerSo far advertisers and news media have concentrated on the supposed danger from high levels of blood cholesterol. The dangers of low blood cholesterol levels have largely been ignored.Countries with diets high in saturated fats also...