Cholesterol deniers or statin pushers — is there a middle ground?

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Sarah Bosely, the health editor of The Guardian, recently published an opinion piece demonizing those who question the role of saturated fat and statins in causing or preventing heart disease. The Guardian: Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers To be honest, this was a heavily biased and uneducated piece. Rather than present an objective review of the arguments, she uses demeaning language and accusatory tones to make the case that the status quo must be right. Unfortunately, that attempts to silence a healthy debate and ignores volumes of scientific data to suggest that the topics of cholesterol and statins are more complicated than the status quo would have us believe. For starters, Ms. Boseley combines two different arguments under one convenient but incorrect umbrella. Whether saturated fats cause heart disease and whether reducing LDL with statins prevents heart disease are two different issues. Secondly, the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease is a...
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