I think it’s clear from all recent studies that dietary cholesteral has no effect or even lowers blood cholesteral. Its possible that in some cases blood cholesteral causes a heart attack, but actually this isn’t proven.

The reason people mention France or even the Massai tribe, is that their diet is high in saturated fat and in the case of the Massai almost exclusively. Yet they have a low incedence of blood cholesteral and almost no heart disease. If cholesteral was the smoking gun then there would be a direct corelation between diet and heart disease increase, which there isn’t.

Even in the west, our diets are much less fatty than ever before, yet heart disease is still increasing. You would expect the opposite.

Please would someone actually quote some scientific studies that show easting cholesteral or saturated fat is actually bad for you.

And I suppose you reckon GWB did 9/11; smoking doesn’t cause lung cancer; and there was no moon landing either.

Give us a break . . .

It skirts the issue… and relies on a notion of “we’ve been told it does so it MUST!” without citing any major factual evidence suggesting the contrary.

Right now, I’m in the middle of the road… and would have been more than happy to read evidence supporting the “fat is bad for you” argument. This article is pushing me further in the other direction.

Look into Dr . Ronald Krauss. Get into 2010.