The real tragedy is that by putting all
our attention on cholesterol, we've virtually ignored the real causes of heart disease: inflammation, oxidative damage, stress, and sugar.
Not exact matches
While most of the
attention on pharmaceutical prices has been
on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high
cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases
on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.
We've got to pay
attention when the FDA mandates warnings
on cholesterol - lowering statin drugs indicating they can affect brain function (as they rightly did in 2012).
Unfortunately, these diets don't pay much
attention to sugar, flour, and other refined carbohydrates, since the primary focus is
on reducing meat, fat, and
cholesterol, which proponents of these diets believe are the much worse for your health than carbohydrates are.
While most of the
attention has been directed to effects
on serum
cholesterol, SFAs have other physiologic effects, in particular
on the insulin response.