Butter does not increase the risk for heart disease. [Tech Times; PLoS One] This 180-degree turn in dietary advice does not emanate from a new discovery but actually was gleaned from analyses of prior studies that date back over a decade, which says nobody cared to tell the public till now. Science contrary to dietary dogma just isn’t being reported.
Another recently published report indicates millions of people may be needlessly taking statin drugs every day and “blanket” prescriptions for adults at risk for mortal heart attacks are not warranted. In yet another massive scientific U-turn, one report even found 92% of people with elevated cholesterol actually lived longer! [Telegraph UK; BMJ Open] The British Medical Journal report is also a retrospective review of prior studies dating back over two decades. Modern medicine has been misleading the public for a long time now.
It took investigative journalist Nina Techolz to take modern medicine to the task, in particular, dieticians, for what has to be the biggest misdirection in the history of medicine – to avoid fats and consume sugar and carbohydrates. [The Big Fat Surprise] Kat James, noted author, talked about needless fat phobia and the downsides of a carbohydrate-rich diet (pasta, cereal, rice, bread) over a decade ago. [Amazon.com] Dr. Ron Rosedale [The Rosedale Diet] and Kat James were lone voices about the health consequences of sugar and carbs at the time.
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Public health agencies were complicit in all this, issuing their infamous Food Pyramid that promoted carbohydrates as the basis of a healthy diet. As retired medical practitioner, Richard B. Hawkes said: “There is a lot of evidence to show that the obesity epidemic, with all the other diseases associated with it, is mainly as a result of following that ‘fateful’ Food Pyramid.” [British Medical Journal]
Hospital dieticians are slow to change the meals they offer their in-patients based on this new science. After all, those sugary, carbohydrate-rich meals have ensured hospitals will have an endless line of sicker and sicker patients.
Who is going to confess an intentional misdirection has been perpetrated on the American public so the medical industry could profiteer off of an unwary public? Nobody is going to up and admit all this unhealthy dietary advice was intentionally dispensed to increase the amount of disease in need of treatment.
Deeply rooted cholesterol phobia
Will this information roust up public outrage? That’s not likely because cholesterol-phobia is so deeply rooted in the population that may take decades to undo it all.
Did statin drug users spit out their Lipitor pills and write angry letters to their cardiologists upon publication of these revelations? No.
Has there been any health authority or attorneys general put statin drug company executives in jail or demand payment of fines for the promotion of drugs that allegedly prevent mortal heart attacks without an iota of scientific substantiation? In fact, state attorneys general chose to target dietary supplement companies instead. [Natural Products Insider]
Short of God coming down out of the sky to put a stop to it all, the practice of medicine will proceed in a business-as-usual fashion.
Deeper investigation
But the question as to why patients mindlessly continue to take statin drugs is worthy of a bit deeper investigation.
First, if you can imagine, there are patients who both smoke cigarettes and take a statin drug. While one would think at if they can’t stop smoking, patients should at least take a statin drug to counter tobacco’s effects, the science says otherwise. Smokers who use statin drugs actually have a 60% increased risk for lung abnormalities. [Med Page Today; American Journal Respiratory Critical Care Medicine]
Ironically, side effects from statin drugs (muscle aches, memory problems, others) force many patients to stop taking them, not the inability of these drugs to deliver on their promise to reduce the risk for mortal heart attacks.
God knows how much money the pharmaceutical companies would have made had they formulated a pill that lowers cholesterol without all the side effects. (To learn of one medicine that did lower cholesterol without side effects, see the last paragraph of this report.)
One study showed 40-70% of patients doubt the necessity or lacked knowledge about the effectiveness of statins. [PLoS One] Another study ranks the primary reasons patients do not comply with doctors’ orders to take statins are side effects (muscle pain) 60%, cost 16% and lack of effectiveness 13%. [Journal Clinical Lipidology]
A survey showed patients are more likely not to fill a prescription for a statin drug if it costs more than ten dollars out of pocket. So insurance companies were persuaded, for public health reasons they said, to drop the co-payment on statin drugs to no more than ~$10. [American Journal Managed Care]
However, we still have billions of dollars of statin drugs being sold. A crash of the pharmaceutical sector of the stock market might result if every statin drug user caught on to this ruse. We couldn’t have that.
Why patients stick with statins
The fear of death is certainly a motivator for patients to take statins. Fear sells. But there is a deeper-seated mindset behind all this. The mindset is that we live in an interdependent world where we rely on others, in this case, doctors, to make complicated decisions for us.
We find a more pervasive vulnerability in the American mind, cultured by what is not taught in school. In America, we simply do not teach independent decision-making.
