[[Book Notes - The great cholesterol myth]] #Booknote #Cholesterol # Chapter 3: Cholesterol Is Harmless NOW LET’S TALK ABOUT _YOU_ Author argue that Cholesterol myth is manufactured, intentionally and unintentionally? Regulators have financial ties to pharmaceutical industry (but that's 2004, and no citation included) - "*To understand the cholesterol myth—....—you’ll need to know .... Understanding the full story of cholesterol touches on medicine and research, as well as politics, economics, psychology, and sociology. .... much to the story has little to do with saving lives, though it may have started out that way. Instead, it involves staggering amounts of money, the politics of publication, and the sociology of belief..... We’ll also shine a light on the revolving door that exists between government advisory committees and the industries they’re supposed to police. For example, when the National Cholesterol Education Program lowered the “optimal” cholesterol levels in 2004, eight out of nine people on the panel had financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, most of them to the manufacturers of cholesterol-lowering drugs who would subsequently reap immediate benefits from these same recommendations.*" THE BIRTH OF THE DIET-HEART HYPOTHESIS Book suggested that the Hypothesis of high cholesterol linking to heart disease is started by Ancel Benjamin Keys's in 1953. shame research finding which was flawed. He championed the cause - Ancel Benjamin Keys. 1953. _Seven Countries Study_—the first major international study investigating links between diet, lifestyle factors, and heart disease. The massive study seemed to confirm a link between saturated fat consumption and cardiovascular disease, and Keys spent the latter part of his career pushing the newfangled (at the time) idea that too much saturated fat in the diet was harming our tickers. - whole Seven Countries Study was a sham because he chose only countries he knew would confirm his hypothesis. Or that he made a famous graph by cherry-picking six countries out of twenty-two countries that had available diet and mortality data, making it look like there was a near-perfect correlation between national fat consumption and heart disease. Or, even better, that his Seven Countries Study data actually showed that _sugar_, not saturated fat, was the real heart-killer—and he simply ignored those findings and drowned out dissenting voices, like that of his rival nutritionist John Yudkin, in order to preserve his ideology. It’s important to understand how nutritional research is actually done—then you will have a far greater understanding of how all the diet “experts” come to their conclusions. (==Did some search on Key's Seven Countries Study. This site addressed some of the myth presented by the author https://www.bluezones.com/2017/08/top-experts-come-together-to-address-nutrition-myths/#== ) MYTHS AND TRUTHS ABOUT DIET RESEARCH