Monday, January 24, 2011

Cholesterol

Thanks to friend Dan for the link to this one:

http://naturalcommunitiesmag.com/2010/06/28/cholesterol-friend-or-foe-2/

I've read an increasing number of articles saying that we've over-evilized eggs and that they actually provide a healthy amount of LDL/HDL cholesterol. I've also read articles that talk about how we aren't measuring the right thing when we test cholesterol levels (that we should be doing the test to see if our artieries are clogged instead) but it never really expained why. This article explains a lot more about that, and how our body uses cholesterol.

I am getting increasingly skeptical of drugs like cholesterol medication, given that they all have these horrible side effects on our liver. This further makes me wonder if all these drugs we take end up having more side effects and cause us to have more problems (which might make us take more drugs, etc. etc.)

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