I was on a networking site blog this morning and came across a person spruiking the line that the cholesterol in eggs was dangerous and you shouldn’t eat the yolks. Rather sad as it is one of the healthy foods out there.
But if you do a search, for example on “types of fat”, almost everywhere [...]

Back again. I keep thinking that I have put this cholesterol material to bed. Each morning I think I have nothing further to add and then something else pops up.
Today I was putting all my papers into a folder and I thought I would try once more to get that last paper mentioned in the Lancet. [...]

Gee, these cholesterol researchers are cheeky. They really push the limits of so called evidence based medicine.
 
Let’s look at the 2005 Lancet published study by the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ Collaborators1. As far as I can find this is the latest meta-analysis of lipid lowering treatment and concerns the use of statins to supposedly to reduce [...]

I have had my head in the cholesterol studies again. I was about to give up on them when I thought I had to just have a brief look at a paper that was on my screen. This was a 2005 Lancet study (by CTT colaborators) on the “efficacy of cholesterol lowering treatment” - a meta [...]

I have been thinking about the research papers I have been reading and my mind went to a conversation I had with an medical man in a senior position in a university. We were discussing diet. He was one of the low fat, high carbohydrate, eat less, exercise more and you WILL lose weight brigade. [...]

Yesterday I went to the most amazing speaker training – and I do not use superlatives like this lightly. I think anyone who would like to develop a business in public speaking should take training from her. Her content is brilliant, she is entertaining and I have come away with much to think about and to [...]

 
“Sit down,” invited my doctor, “We have your cholesterol results back and they are far too high. We need to do something about them.” I had previously told my doctor when she wrote out the blood test form that I wasn’t going to take any drugs if they came back high.
 
“And what do you think [...]

I have spent quite a bit of time exploring the cholesterol controversy over the last couple of days. If I am ever to take drugs I want to make sure that it is on a good evidence base so I started to look into the medical literature about the likelihood of cardiovascular disease and the place [...]

Greetings to all readers,
This is my first post to my blog. I am quite amazed that I’ve been able to get this far. Fortunately I have two good trainers, the first being my husband and the second being John Thornhill whose training we are using. I have entitled this Health, wealth, wisdom and happiness as [...]