Category: Cholesterol

Body Chemistry
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How We Got It Wrong: Saturated Fat and Heart Disease

Still confused about whether saturated fat intake can increase your risk of heart disease? It’s not a surprise as there are articles being posted every day with arguments from both sides. This excellent article explains how saturated fat got its bad rap and why there is less reason to be alarmed by including some in

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Body Chemistry
Shannon

Saturated Fat and the Thermostat

“It’s unfortunate that coconut oil has been given this health halo” says the latest human nutrition expert.  Here we go again! Nutrition advice about a food that is bad, then good, then bad to eat.  In CBC news, a recent article makes the same old argument about foods, like coconut oil that are naturally high

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Body Chemistry
Shannon

It’s Time We Understood Statins!

“My MD says that my LDL is high.  She wants me to go on statins.  I’ve heard bad things about them and I don’t know what to do.” We hear this all the time and hopefully this will help you be an informed partner in managing your health. Think of statins like penicillin, the world’s

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Body Chemistry
Shannon

We Have Cholesterol Completely Wrong

Dr Zoe Harcombe is a researcher, author, blogger and public speaker in the field of diet and health, with a PhD in public health nutrition. Her particular areas of interest/expertise are public health dietary guidelines (especially dietary fat), nutrition and obesity. Here is an article she wrote on cholesterol and, like all of her articles,

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