Comments on: Cholesterol makes you smarter!

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:49:49 +0000

Oh, I didn’t realize oat bran got dropped!

lol

It’s damn near impossible to keep track, isn’t it.

By: jan

jan — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 23:45:54 +0000

For years I ate oat bran because it was supposed to have some health benefit even though it tasted like cellophane. Then suddenly…oops, we were wrong. It isn’t healthy after all. That was many years ago. Now I’ll just wait for what I like to eat to get back on the “good” list.

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 01:12:04 +0000

Very well could be, John.

The NYT article singled out medical research as particularly prone to it but I should think scientific ideas are just as vulnerable.

In fact we can probably assume that a good third of all “accepted” scientific and medical beliefs are wrong, based on this model ;-)

By: Duke of Earle

Duke of Earle — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:27:13 +0000

…and do you think that the “cascade effect” might also account for the incessant hype and hysteria about “man-made global warming” you wrote about in the previous post? Who was it that said if someone says something often enough, it is assumed to be true?

John

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:16:21 +0000

Another piece of the whole cholesterol thing is that diet has very little effect on serum cholesterol levels.

I didn’t get into that since this post got long enough without it :-)

Another interesting tidbit is that Vitamin D levels may be a key to heart health. It’s not been proven yet but apparently there’s a strong correlation between living at lower latitudes and low incidence of heart disease.

This page isn’t very esthetically pleasing but it does include a lot of links to research studies to make that case:

http://www.drcranton.com/Cholesterol_myth.htm

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 16:08:40 +0000

Good analysis, Kirsten. Interesting. There was no way I was giving up whole eggs anyway!