Note also the findings of The China Study. In rural China, the animal protein intake was 7g/day while the American intake was 70g/day. The serum cholesterol ranges were 127 in China and 215 in America. At that time the death rate from CHD was 17 times greater in American men than rural Chinese men. Maybe that’s worth trying to understand.

My guess is that, in the Framingham study, very few people ate plant based, whole foods, low protein, zero cholesterol diets.

There is no question that reducing cholesterol in the diet can reduce cholesterol in the blood all other things being equal. But so what? Show me the studies showing that lowering cholesterol increases lifespan.

Rural Chinese worked much physically harder than American men and consumed significantly fewer calories. But, despite all that, do rural Chinese live longer than Americans? The answer is no. Statins reduce the risk for heart disease but they simply replace that risk with something else because people who take statins don’t live longer than those who don’t. You’ve got to be careful in looking at evidence like this because what you want is to decrease all-cause mortality, i.e., have people live longer, not simply trade one risk factor for another.

So while the results were not “expected” – I am not sure they understood that much about types of fats to expect anything that would be correct.

There have been other studies besides Framingham that show no relationship of “fat consumption” to blood cholesterol – but there are studies on specific types of fats that do show positive correlations – that is, larger amounts correlate to higher, or lower, blood cholesterol, depending upon the type of fat.
The current simplistic rules, however, might be ignoring beneficial foods with saturated fats – such as whole, raw milk. And maybe our current classification of four types of fats is not complete.

As I recall (I didn’t go back and pull the papers) Framingham looked at saturated and unsaturated fats – not the specific fatty acids.

MRE

It is amusing that so many people will accuse the government and businesses of lying about this and that but when it comes to cholesterol (and radon, Splenda ..other pet peeves of mine), suddenly the news they get is accurate.

My own cholesterol is considered high by the mainstream. Ha!, I say. I exercise, eat a variety of foods in moderation, don’t smoke, and drink a little. I’m not losing any sleep over my cholesterol numbers. I hate to see my eat her Lipitor poison to lower her numbers which is a total waste of money…and of health, too.

It is amusing that people assume the government is either wrong or is out and out lying about virtually everything except for nutritional issues. On nutritional issues they say that it must be so because the government says it’s so.

MRE

Page 36 The News, Framingham-Natick, Friday October 30th 1970

Findings of the Framingham Diet Study Clarified

Framingham – Although there is no discernible relationship between reported diet intake and serum cholesterol levels in the Framingham Diet study group, “it is incorrect to interpret this finding to mean that diet has no connection with blood cholesterol” Dr William B Kannel, director of the Framingham heart study has stated.

“It has been repeatedly demonstrated that blood cholesterol levels can be altered by changes in diet; and dietary alteration is still the most acceptable form of medical management for persons with elevated blood lipids” Dr. Kannel said.

“The available evidence indicates that coronary heart disease appears to result from a combination of contributing factors and that no single factor capable of producing the disease by itself has been convincingly demonstrated”, he stated.

“However”, he added, “if any common denominator does exist through which such multiple, inter-related factors operate to produce athersclerotic lesions, then some aberration of blood lipids is certainly the chief contender. It appears to be the thread running through the web of circumstances leading to coronary heart disease.”

A number of blood lipids have been implicated in coronary disease, Dr. Kannel Said, but none more substantially than the blood cholesterol content. That blood cholesterol is somehow intimately related to coronary atherosclerosis is no longer subject to reasonable doubt because of massive evidence that:
- diseases associated with hypercholesterolemia are also associated with premature atherosclerosis.
- persons with inborn errors of cholesterol metabolism develop extremely precocious atherosclerotic disease
- persons with high cholesterol levels in epidemiological study populations have been observed to develop coronary heart disease with greater frequency than those with low cholesterol levels, the risk being proportional to the degree of elevation of the blood cholesterol.
- countries with high average cholesterol values among their citizens report high coronary death rates; those with low average cholesterol values report low coronary death rates.
- atherosclerotic deposits are usually loaded with cholesterol and the movement of cholesterol from the blood into the deposits has been amply demonstrated.
- producing high cholesterol values in animals produces atherosclerotic deposits that can be made to regress by lowering blood cholesterol.

“Moreover”, Dr Kannel said, “the evidence incriminating diet in producing elevated serum cholesterol is quite substantial; for example,
- areas in which the population exhibits high cholesterol values characteristically have diets different from those where low values are characteristic.
- migrants from ‘low cholesterol’ areas to ‘high cholesterol’ areas are often subsequently found to have higher cholesterol levels and to have changed their dietary pattern.
- manipulation of diet can alter serum cholesterol values in a predictable fashion in humans and, in animals, can produce atherosclerotic deposits or cause established deposits to regress”.

“The reason for the high cholesterol values frequently found in free-living population groups is not always apparent and the details of the mechanism involved, the role of inheritance, regulatory mechanisms, and what constitutes the ‘normal range’ of cholesterol values are not completely understood.” Dr Kannel said.

Hi Jeff–

Thanks for the transcription.  I appreciate it.

Cheers–

MRE 

Kind regards,
Jeff Cable

Hi Jeff–

Be my guest.  Link to any of the posts you would like.

Cheers–

MRE 

Hi Antnagir–

That appears to be the case.

Best–

MRE

I forgot to mention the 26 Prospective Trials regarding this. They also found NO benefit to saturated fat restriction. They are also all listed in Colpo’s book.

You should team up with Dr Uffe Ravnskov and Anthony Colpo to form a strong coalition in exposing this sham.

Hi Razwell–

I guess that in a way we are teamed up. There ain’t all that many of us that will openly say that there is nothing wrong with saturated fat. Mary Enig is another.

Best–

MRE

Richard Morris
breadandmoney.com

Hi Richard–

The ‘gift’ that keeps on giving indeed. What’s even more astounding than this little booklet are the Framingham guidelines for avoiding heart disease. Many of the recommendations are not borne out by their own studies. I plan to post on this issue again later and really get into the guidelines part.

BTW, I love your site. Great job on the weight loss!

Best–

MRE

There are 18 of them to date. All printed out in Colpo’s book “The Great Cholesterol Con”, results and all.

Hi Razwell–

There are probably more than those 18. And all fail to ‘prove’ a correlation.

Best–

MRE

Hi Kevin–

In this case it is the head of the Fram study who is denying the correlation. Or at least saying that it is meaningless.

You are absolutely right about the people eating non-carb controlled diets. Most eat a lot of sat fat, a lot of trans fat, a lot of sugar, and just a lot in general.

Best–

MRE