Since my regular doctor recently got very concerned over my slightly high cholesterol, and prescribed for me a very strict 6-month diet, I decided to research the whole cholesterol thing myself (it actually started in an effort to find a ready-planned diet online or in a book so I wouldn’t have to do so much work planning it all out). I needed my info fast, and this book was available in PDF format, so I bought it, printed it, bound it and started reading it. I was also attracted to the French paradox part, as I’ve already done a bit of reading about the thin French and their rich foods (foods I absolutely love).

            I’ve read just a part of the beginning so far, but what I’m discovering is astounding and tragic. It turns out that my cholesterol is completely normal, not high at all (and my test shows excellent “good” cholesterol and triglycerides numbers). The number which doctors are using to decide high or low cholesterol is arbitrarily decided by a panel of doctors and experts who are in the pharmaceutical companies’ pockets, and this number has slowly been lowered over the past 30 years, so now doctors and companies are targeting the younger set (like me). The lowering-cholesterol drug business is a $30,000,000,000 business. The pharmaceutical companies are so rich and powerful, that people, whose lives have been completely ruined by their medicines, cannot sue them, as no lawyer will go up against that kind of money and power.

            Also, high cholesterol has never been proven to be linked to heart disease. Cholesterol is actually a natural substance our bodies produce as a sort of bandaid to help heal damaged artery walls. And 7% of our brain is made up of cholesterol—we need it. The drugs prescribed by the doctors have the potential to be extremely harmful, yet, due to many reasons, this is not being made known either to the FDA or to doctors or to patients. It’s terrible!