January 2015 – Verners Views

155. What Happens to the Cholesterol when the Dietary Fat is Altered?

The official dietary recommendations continue to advise a reduction in saturated fat (SFA) and an increase in the polyunsaturated fat (PUFA). The justification is that the SFA will reduce the Blood cholesterol (TC) and therefore lower the risk of developing heart disease. The same rationale is used to justify the advice to increase the intake […]

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154. The Acidity of the Body

Metabolic Syndrome / VWheelock

These days we are given all sorts of advice on healthy eating. There is much controversy about what actually constitutes a healthy diet. Readers of these blogs will know that there are many criticisms of the current official recommendations. There is a convincing case that complying with these will do more harm than good. Furthermore

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153. Public Accounts Committee Report on Tamiflu and Publication of Drug Evaluation Results

Pharmaceutical companies / VWheelock

A report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee concludes that information is routinely withheld from doctors and researchers about the methods and results of clinical trials on treatments currently prescribed in the United Kingdom (1). Invariably the bodies responsible for the approval of new drugs only have access to the results of studies

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152. You Must Be Nuts!

Alzheimers, Dementia / VWheelock

I have just been watching the video entitled “You must be nuts!” which has been made by Obhi Chatterjee and colleagues. It can be viewed on You Tube here: The stimulus for this video was to try to understand why Obhi’s father had developed dementia and to identify ways in which the condition could be

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151. Praluent: New Cholesterol Drugs Get Riskier By The Day

Cholesterol / VWheelock

This is a re-post of the article by Francois Lubbe of The Cholesterol Truth. I am most grateful to him for permission to post here. The original is available at http://www.thecholesteroltruth.com/praluent-cholesterol-drugs-side-effects-hypercholesterolemia/ Big Pharma seems intent in sticking to its backward way of thinking when it comes to cholesterol. So far their efforts, to create a

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