The diet-heart hypothesis states three things: Dietary saturated fat increases blood cholesterol Elevated blood cholesterol increases the ri...
Introduction Chris Voigt is the executive director of the Washington State Potato Commission, which supports and promotes the Washington sta...
Many controlled studies have measured the cardiovascular effects of replacing animal ("saturated") fats with seed oils (predominan...
Heart Disease: Animal Studies Although humans aren't rats, animal studies are useful because they can be tightly controlled and experime...
Traditional Uses for Coconut Coconut palms are used for a variety of purposes throughout the tropics. Here are a few quotes from the book P...
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
A Fatal Case of Nutritionism The concept of 'nutritionism' was developed by Dr. Gyorgy Scrinis and popularized by the food writer Mi...
I just saw another study that supports my previous post Animal Models of Atherosclerosis: LDL . The hypothesis is that in the absence of ex...
The diet-heart hypothesis is the idea that saturated fat, and in some versions cholesterol, raises blood cholesterol and contributes to the ...
LDL likely plays a role in causing atherosclerosis, with the majority of the damage coming from the oxidized form of LDL . There are at lea...
Researchers have developed a number of animal models of atherosclerosis (fatty/fibrous lesions in the arteries that influence heart attack r...
