Cholesterol wrongly accused of Heart Disease

The Journal of the American Medical Association published in 2015 actual internal memos from the sugar companies back in like, you know, the 60s or so detailing how they paid off three Harvard professors to falsify data and publish fraudulent studies. One of those professors was named head of the USDA. And then he was the one who authored and published the 1977 USDA declaration that cholesterol caused heart disease and saturated fat crease cholesterol. So we reduced our cholesterol consumption by 30%, reduced red meat by 33% or so, increased fruits and vegetables by 30 and 40%. But what happened? Well, first of all, the heart disease rate tripled,. You can't say that cholesterol causes heart disease when you reduce cholesterol

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