He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.William BlakeThe imaginary, man made, cholesterol myth has been the greatest curse of mankind since the end of the Second World War. More people have met their maker in heaven worrying about cholesterol that white, tasteless and odourless powder-which forms the verycore of human body. Cholesterol forms the hydrophobic cell wall of every human body cell of which there are one hundred thousand billion in all at a given time. Millions of body cells die everyday and are to be replaced by new cells. Man is completely new once in three months. "No man could get into the same river twice," wrote an English poet who might have had correct scientific intuition. Cholesterol lowering drugs, expensive as they are, have been a bigger curse. Every single such drug, since the original cholestyramine to the latest statins, has resulted in higher total mortality in the long term studies compared to the placebo.
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