re: Heart Surgeon declares "we were wrong" re causes of heart disease

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Interesting article. I'm not saying the article is good or bad but he seems to ignore the fact that in order for your vessel walls to plaque, your blood must be high is cholesterol. Inflammation isn't going to cause that level to be high. It seems to me that a more sensible diet is what is he almost recommending.

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What you say about cholesterol is not true. You can have low total cholesterol and have a very high risk for cardiovascular disease. You can have high total cholesterol and have a low risk for cardiovascular disease.

This a pretty good article, but the main reason I post it is for the first graph that appears. In it, you can see the relationship of "good cholesterol" (HDL) and "bad cholesterol" vs. coronary artery disease (disease of the arteries of the heart). If you look at the back right corner, you can see a risk factor for a person with low cholesterol levels has a much higher risk for disease than the person in the front left corner (with a blood cholesterol of over 300).
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