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Cholesterol-shmesterol

Lewis Jones’ article “Cholesterol-shmesterol” is so full of distortions I hardly know where to start. He confuses the dietary cholesterol-heart connection with the blood cholesterol-heart connection, fails to differentiate between primary prevention (in healthy people) and secondary prevention (in those who already have heart disease), and he refers to “good” and “bad” cholesterol as dodgy

Cholesterol Skeptics Strike Again

Oct 9, 2008Harriet A. Hall, MDNutrition, Pharmaceuticalscardiovascular disease, cholesterol, heart disease, International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics, JREF forum, LDL cholesterol, Lewis Jones, low fat diet, Marshall Deutsch, Skeptical Briefs, statins, THINCS

I’m really tired of arguing about cholesterol, but I feel obliged to stand up once more to defend science-based medicine from unfair calumny. Lewis Jones’s article “Cholesterol-shmesterol” in Skeptical Briefs (December 2007) included errors and misconceptions about cholesterol. It was a re-hash of the same kind of misinformation that is being spread by The International