tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post2724140424460805487..comments2024-03-29T04:06:37.402-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Up with CholesterolStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-17103455814718910812019-10-26T20:28:43.530-07:002019-10-26T20:28:43.530-07:00Not so fast. One size doesn't fit all. It al...Not so fast. One size doesn't fit all. It all depends on whether you are at high risk for heart attack or ischemic stroke or not. <br /><br />Lowering LDL cholesterol is life saving for people who are at high risk for stroke or heart attacks. The evidence is very strong since clinicians are now able to bring the LDL down to very low levels with medications, and the lower it is, the more lives they save. But, there is a definite downside to low LDL since it helps to stabilize small blood vessels and helps to prevent hemorrhagic strokes. <br /><br />Eating cholesterol in eggs does not necessarily result in high cholesterol, however there are some studies which show that there is a dose related risk of vascular disease and how many eggs one eats. Illuninatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11423190828865695564noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-18250674988972179132019-10-26T10:39:37.320-07:002019-10-26T10:39:37.320-07:00I'm with tw on this. Bacon: It's DEEEEEE...I'm with tw on this. Bacon: It's DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-LISH!!Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-2393082603420449852019-10-26T06:57:51.991-07:002019-10-26T06:57:51.991-07:00Unfortunately, it is, practically speaking, virtua...Unfortunately, it is, practically speaking, virtually impossible to conduct a methodologically meaningful large scale study in nutrition. Combine that with widespread academic statistical illiteracy, exacerbated by the availability of cheap point and click software for sophisticated statistical analysis, pressure to publish, and a cataract of Federal dollars supporting data mining, and you get a mess. Since the problem of statistical illiteracy is not going to be solved in this century, a good start for journal review boards to require all such studies use all-cause mortality, as the study you reference did.<br /><br />I believe that a Federal program, focused on the West Coast and Northeast, offering free bacon to drug-addled, "unwilling to work", and/or insane homeless would largely solve the homeless problem for the remaining 80% of the nation. As well as encourage mendicants to self-relocate and seek a better life within the nation's most ostentatiously tolerant, charitable, and wealthy enclaves.<br /><br />Having said all that, butter, bacon, pork manteca, and prime beef will remain part of my diet no matter what the digital datamancers might conjure up from the bowels of Statistica™ tomorrow.<br /><br />trigger warningnoreply@blogger.com