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[ginkgo]

As far as cholesterol goes here is a summary of what modern medicine knows. There is good and bad cholesterol and of the bad, there is harmless and harmful. There is cholesterol in animal foods (not plant foods) that is neither good nor bad. Most of your cholesterol in your blood is created by your liver and the gall baldder stores it. That is why animals have cholesterol-- because of a liver. Although a meat eating plant may have cholesterol.

So all of the above means nothing at all to your health. Heart attacks and strokes are caused by plaque on blood vessel walls breaking off and going to the heart or brain. The plaque is made mostly of oxidized cholesterol and calcium. Heart attacks and strokes is what kills or cripples almost all Americans not including cancer that may be mostly a vitamin D deficiency.

But the plaque is good. It forms to protect weakened or broken blood vessel walls. What is bad is whatever is causing the walls to weaken or break. Medicine says that the main cause of this is aging. But aging may be doing the wrong things over and over like drinking hardens your liver. So if everyone is killed at age 39, no one would be having heart attacks and strokes.

According to the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (one of the 27 National Institutes of Health-- total budget around $32 billion):

Plaque buildup in the arteries begins with damage to the arteries. Factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, high amounts of certain fats, cholesterol and sugar in the blood can damage the walls of the arteries."

It says that they can, but they do not know for sure. Also they will say the reverse. Like they will say that the damage to blood vessel walls causes plaque and that causes narrowed or hardened arteries that causes high blood pressure.

It is probably caused mostly by things that did not exist until man created them like pollution, cigarettes, refined sugars (like HFCS) and trans fats. "NEW YORK — The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the nation’s first city to ban artery-clogging artificial [man-made] trans fats at restaurants — from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries."

Some holistic sources say that it may be other things like chlorine that is put in water to kill all life in the water. Chlorine is a poionsous gas that can kill humans in minutes not years. A water filter can remove it from the water but not the hundreds of medicines in water that all have side effects.

AP: Drugs found in drinking water - USATODAY.com

A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows.

They have observed many things. Like if someone lies in bed for months without much movement, it greatly increases chance of heart attack or stroke. Other things that increase chances of these events is smoking, poor dental health and vitamin D deficiency.

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Originally Posted by ginkgo

As far as cholesterol goes
here is a summary of what modern medicine knows.

That is why animals have cholesterol-- because of a liver. Although a meat eating plant may have cholesterol.
Heart attacks and strokes are caused by plaque

cancer that may be mostly a vitamin D deficiency.
So all of the above means nothing at all to your health.

Medicine says that the main cause of this is aging.
So if everyone is killed at age 39: (Notice their little euthanasia-plug there)
no one would be having heart attacks and strokes.

According to the Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
(one of the 27 National Institutes of Health):
'Plaque buildup in the arteries begins with damage to the arteries.'
It says that they can, but they do not know for sure.

It is probably caused mostly by ...

Some holistic sources say that it may be other things like

They have observed many things.

Are you grasping the significance here yet, namely: "they do not know, let alone for sure".

Just because there were/are SOME (physical) observations, &
SOME factors APPEAR, or SEEM to be l-i-n-k-e-d, is
no indication, let alone "proof"
(whatever) latest Guess-work re 'CAUSEality' <-new word, is right.

Understand re "chronicities": traditional Medical-science does not, & can not know.
why? -
their current (outdated) methods/dogma/model summarily dismisses
the most important Agent of all: EACH Individual's MIND's *own* choices...

[ginkgo]

Here are Jon Barron's theory about what damages the artery walls.

Natural Alternative To Balance Cholesterol Levels -- Health Newsletter

High homeocystine levels.

Too much omega-6 in the diet.

Eating high levels of meats and animal fat from grain fattened [not grass fed] animals saturates the body with large amounts arachidonic acid.

High acid diets. Diets high in meat, sugar, grain, and starch raise acid levels in body tissue – thereby making it hard for the body to clear the lactic acid that builds up in muscle tissue from normal muscle activity.

High levels of circulating immune complexes in the blood.

Inflammation in general.

[ginkgo]

This is from the USDA for 2010 about saturated fat and cholesterol.

Further, the report still uses the old division of "good" and "bad" cholesterol, despite the fact that we now know there are multiple sub-types of both HDL (so called "good" cholesterol) and LDL (so-called "bad cholesterol). Substantial research shows that it is the type of LDL- not the total amount- that matters. LDL cholesterol that is the "small particle" type is bad- "large particle" LDL is basically harmless. Saturated fat may raise LDL but it tends to have a beneficial effect on particle type, meaning it raises the large fluffy molecules of LDL (harmless), but lowers the small dense b-b gun pellet-type molecules (the "bad" kind of "bad cholesterol"). Your overall LDL may go up, but your cardiovascular risk has improved.