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The Clot Thickens with Dr. Malcolm Kendrick | Starting Strength Radio #187

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Is There a Cause of Heart Disease?

After the Second World War America appeared to have been overwhelmed by people dying from heart disease, especially middle-aged men. No one had a real answer until Ansel Keys decided that if you ate cholesterol, this ratio of cholesterol in this cause heart disease. He actually then did experiments and feeding people with high amounts of cholesterol, which basically means eating eggs,. What he found was that he couldn't alter the cholesterol level by one eye-auto by feeding people cholesterol. And instead of saying, well, that hypothesis is clearly a complete crock, he just said, when I said cholesterol, I didn't mean cholesterol. I meant saturated fat. So it's not cholesterol. It's a thing

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