Why is Junk Food Bad for Your Health? It’s the FAT (mostly) but NOT the Saturated Fat
Cholesterol: What the American Heart Association is Hiding from You (Part 3)
For Part 1 click here For Part 2 click here Today's article is the third in a series of three intended to expose the truth about the cause of heart disease and the American Heart Association's role in hiding the truth from the American public, meaning doctors, patients, and everyone else. I hope this story convinces you that the AHA does not have your best interests at heart and that if you are interested in avoiding heart attacks and strokes, the last place you should turn to for advice is the AHA. I also hope that doctors who now follow…
Cholesterol: What the American Heart Association is Hiding from You (Part 2)
For Part One, Click HERE This is the second in a series of three articles that explode the myth that cholesterol is the cause of heart disease. Today's article will cover a dark period in scientific history that forever changed the course of human health and our relationship with food. My hope is this article will open everyone's eyes to the reality that the American Heart Association—the organization that taught your doctor high LDL cholesterol in your blood causes heart attacks—has betrayed our trust by feeding us fake news in the form of shady science, and has been doing so…
Cholesterol: What the American Heart Association is Hiding from You (Part 1)
The American Heart Association has been in the fake news business for decades. This means everything your doctors learned about heart attacks, strokes, LDL and HDL cholesterol, and nutrition is wrong. In fact, the nutrition advice coming from our most trusted institutions couldn't be better designed to make you sick. This article is the first in a series intended to shed light on a dark chapter of American history that few people know about: the story of how we as a nation became convinced that cholesterol is unhealthy, and the consequences of that belief. I will share with you what…
PUFA-Project: Scientific References on Seed Oil Toxicity
Mission: To promote consumer awareness of the evidence that PUFA overconsumption from seed oils that are wrongly promoted as healthy may be the underlying driver of most non-infectious diseases To support health professionals' understanding of the role of PUFA in driving non-infectious disease To support businesses that avoid seed oils and offer consumers healthy fats and oils (click here for products) To support global human nutrition and health by elevating culinary skills that wean us off seed oils Basic Principles PUFA stands for polyunsaturated fatty acid. These are natures most unstable fatty acids and when we cook with them they…
Cholesterol Is Good, The American Heart Association is Bad
Pay for Performance
Your Doctor May be Paid to Prescribe Cholesterol-Lowering Statins Do you know what a HEDIS measure is? Most patients don't, and few doctors do. It's a measure of how well your doctor is following certain practice guidelines. 90 percent of insurance companies grade doctors using HEDIS. And it's important to know that these markers include getting your LDL cholesterol numbers down with drugs. If you have diabetes or cardiovascular disease, your doctor can be rewarded for following these rules. On the other hand, doctors who don't will be financially penalized. This is one reason why I do not work with…