29 Billion Lies About Cholesterol

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Here is a breif synopsis of the movie $29 Billion Reasons To Lie About Cholesterol.

Millions of people around the world are currently taking medications to lower their cholesterol. In England alone, around 7 million people are taking cholesterol-lowering statins in the hope of reducing their risk of a heart attack. But an increasing number of doctors and researchers are questioning the supposed link between cholesterol and heart disease.

At the same time, many people are concerned about the mass prescription of medications. In particular, prescribing medications to people who are, for the most part, perfectly healthy.

In this film we are going to ask if the facts about cholesterol and heart disease have been distorted by pharmaceutical companies keen to increase their profits, and if our health authorities are doing their job to protect us from these commercial interests.

29 billion dollars is a conservative estimate of the current value of the cholesterol-lowering industry.

29 billion pounds is what cardiovascular disease costs the UK economy each year.

If the focus on cholesterol has been a mistake, then the greatest cost is associated with the lost opportunity to tackle heart disease. 

Watch the movie $29 Billion Reasons To Lie About Cholesterol

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Winston’s Comment:

Throughout history, man has sought out high-density fats to provide energy. Take a look at the Russians, Eskimos, and those who live in extreme cold climates. They eat large volumes of high-density fats, yet they have very low cholesterol readings. The lie of the cholesterol myth is that fats are bad for you.  The truth is that your body creates cholesterol in order to repair the damage to your arteries caused by the smaller fat particles manufactured by homogenization of dairy products.  Statin drugs harm your liver by stopping the creation of artery repairing cholesterol from consuming homogenized dairy and cheeses, and the consumption of low-density oils.  If you reinstate the old wisdom of good “clean” high density fat in your diet, you will be healthy with lots of energy, because clean, high density fat has always and will always be the ideal source of high energy.

Clean means no steroids, hormones, antibiotics, or animals fed genetically engineered corn and soy. Consumption of high density fats never has caused high cholesterol numbers but the successful pharmaceutical propaganda has come to a point where we all know that  “cholesterol means BAD, and that we should avoid high density fats.” Every school child over the age of ten knows that cholesterol is something BAD. Its time that we reverse this fiendish propaganda and start eating some high density fats from clean sourced animals and when that is too difficult to find, you can consume certified organic coconut oil, an extremely good alternative that will enhance your metabolism, strength, and health.

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Two vital points in picking good coconut oil is that it must smell wonderful like coconuts, and it must taste very good. If it smells like nothing and tastes horrible, then it is a low-grade coconut oil that has been bleached, heat-treated, solvents used in the extraction, and the final product generally has preservatives. 

You can tell by the price - cheap coconut oil is about $2.50 to $3.50 a pound and the good coconut oil generally starts from $7 to $9 a pound and can go up to as high as $18 a pound. I have also seen unscrupulous merchants sell cheap coconut oil for $12 to $15 a pound. So your nose and taste are the only true test.