Part 1<br /><br />For more than six decades, doctors, nutritionists, and public health officials have been waging a war against high cholesterol in an effort to fight heart disease. But what if the basic premise linking cholesterol and heart disease is wrong?<br /><br />The link between coronary accidents and cholesterol in the blood is a mainstream medical dogma that has been going on for the last 50 years. It has led to the development of a billion dollars “low-fat” food industry ; and statins, the drug that lowers the cholesterol rate, is one of the most prescribed medicines in the world, with 30 millions users in the USA.<br /><br />Yet, although cholesterol rates have decreased in developed countries, the number of coronary accidents remains almost stable. And more and more researchers contest the mainstream explanation.<br /><br />How did the dogma settle, and where do we stand today?<br /><br />See Part 2 here: https://dai.ly/x7mh1oo
