Ei taida olla ihan niin yksinkertaista se, että rasva ja kole aiheuttais suoraa sydän- ja verisuonitauteja.
1. The famous heart surgeon, Michael Debakey, MD, analyzed 1700 patients with hardening of the arteries and found no correlation between blood cholesterol levels and the degree of atherosclerosis (2).
2. The
New England Journal of Medicine reported that a group of Guinea natives whose diet is normally low in cholesterol were fed eggs to see how much the eggs would influence their cholesterol. There was no significant effect on cholesterol levels (3).
3. A study done by the American Cancer Society revealed that non-egg users had a higher death rate from heart attacks and strokes than egg users. This was a large and therefore convincing study involving over 800,000 people (4).
4. Eskimos living on a diet of mostly meat and fat, have low cholesterol levels (about 130 mg) provided they stay on their native diet.
5. The Masai tribe of Africa, drink about 7 quarts of milk per day containing 60% saturated fat. Yet the average adult cholesterol level was 122. (The average American adult level is about 234.)(5)
6. The American Academy of Pediatrics is warning against the latest call for low-cholesterol foods for children, since it is known that cholesterol is vital for children's growth.
7. Many other studies show no significant effect on blood cholesterol from eating eggs or other cholesterol-containing foods. Several of these are reported in an article in The New Vegetarian, by Gary and Steve Null.
8. A study in France found that although butter consumption is much higher in Western than in Eastern France, the mortality from heart disease in Western France is almost half that of Eastern France (6).
9. Before Western eating habits were introduced into the Eskimo population, they lived almost exclusively on animal meat and fat. Yet the incidence of heart disease was very low and cholesterol levels were below 200 mg (7).
9. Similar results were found in studies in the Soviet Union, India, and elsewhere (8,9).
The cholesterol theory of heart disease is very simplistic. It is like saying that duct tape wrapped around a damaged water hose is the cause of the hose damage. More likely, the tape - and the cholesterol - are the result of the damage, not the cause.
In fact, two scientists, Brown and Goldstein, won a Nobel Prize in 1985 for their research into this theory. Cholesterol plaques are often there to protect a damaged artery. After all, a clogged artery is far preferable to a ruptured one. Elevated cholesterol is
associated with heart disease, but may not be its cause.
http://drlwilson.com/articles/CHOLESTEROL.htm
