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The Cholesterol Myth
What you don’t know about "cholesterol-free" diets can hurt you. Cardiovascular diseases are now costing Canadian medicare about 19 billion dollars annually. High cholesterol levels are blamed for blocked arteries and heart attacks.
Cholesterol Does Not Cause Disease
"Lowering serum cholesterol concentrations does not reduce mortality and is unlikely to prevent coronary heart disease. Claims of the opposite are based on preferential citations of supportive trials.
The Truth About Cholesterol
Just say the word "cholesterol" and most people shudder. Almost half of North Americans are believed to have less-than-optimum cholesterol levels. Cholesterol has been vilified as "Public Enemy No.
Cholesterol Too High?
In the past decade, the statin drugs--notably Lovastatin--have revolutionized cardiac care because they have been shown to lower and stabilize serum (blood) lipid levels—a concern for people with high blood pressure.
Three Steps to Lower Cholesterol
Despite decades of educating Canadians to eat fewer fat and cholesterol-containing foods, heart disease is still the number one cause of deat.
The scoop on statins
If you’ve been diagnosed with high cholesterol, you’re in good company. Nearly half of all Canadian adults have elevated cholesterol levels, and millions have been prescribed one of the popular lipid-lowering drugs called statins.
Lowering Cholesterol with Highly Viscous Dietary Fibre
Scientific evidence demonstrates that elevated cholesterol levels greatly increase the risk of death due to heart diseas.
Shopping List for a Healthy Heart

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Miraculous Coconut Oil
A healthy staple in the traditional diets of tropical islanders for thousands of years, coconut oil has been discredited as good cooking oil in North American kitchens. Today, we have a healthy tropical oil alternative.
Cholesterol Control
The Framingham Heart Study, 50 years of data collected from residents in Framingham, Connecticut, established that high blood cholesterol is a major risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). Results from many other studies have shown that lowering total and LDL (“bad”) cholesterol levels significantly reduces CHD.

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