So far, according to the author of numerous studies clearly show that the inclusion of food cholesterinreduzierten
no lasting effect on the cholesterol in the blood. The reason lies in the body's control mechanism. Once the cholesterol intake from the diet lowered, boosting the body's own cholesterol production. Within a few days, the original food before the changeover identified almost level again. Other experiments in which test subjects were fed cholesterinreich showed that the cholesterol levels after a short-term increase again close to the original level einpendelten. The body appears to be a certain amount of cholesterol to need, and to offset short-term fluctuations. Accordingly, the organism maintain the required level, irrespective of what and how much we eat.
Crucial to the theory that cholesterol to heart disease leads were around a century carried out in rabbits. The guinea pigs were cholesterinreichen, animal food overfed so that their natural cholesterol levels of about 40 mg / dl to 1200 mg / dl increase. Rabbits are usually not cholesterinreichen food, and whose body is thus not in a cholesterol reduction in such quantities. Now it is questionable how far the results of animal experiments to humans. The attempt brought the increase in cholesterol levels in 1200 mg / dL means a human cholesterol value from 7000 to 8000 mg / dl. The blood of a human adult, however, an average cholesterol level of about 250 mg / dl. An increase in the rabbit attempt a similar amount, the people would also lead to death. In such an overdose can almost even the most harmless substance cause severe poisoning. As proof of the harmfulness of cholesterol would be the results of this study in any form as doubtful to assess.
To at least in retrospect, the cholesterol theory to prove in the last decades, numerous studies in which thousands of people over several years and decades, and have been observed. In other studies, certain groups of people cholesterol-lowering drugs, diet or a cholesterinarme imposed. These studies should also clarify the link between cholesterol and atherosclerosis, and what factors for cardiovascular diseases. These studies and investigations brought to light very surprising results.
According cause increased cholesterol levels in men only increase a risk to cardiovascular disease to die. When women were no significant effects of cholesterol observed. Overall, there seems to the influence of cholesterol in the development of atherosclerosis or a heart attack to be lower than expected.
A lowering of cholesterol died, however, the test subjects as well. The value of lowering cholesterol rose in the opinion of critics, in particular, the rate of cancer. In addition to the stroke include suicides and accidents than some other causes of death due to the lower cholesterol levels were observed. The reduction of cholesterol adversely affects the production of the brain messenger substance serotonin. A lack of serotonin may, for example, depression, aggressive behaviour and unausgeglichenes cause, thus the increase in suicide and accident rate would be explained.
High cholesterol levels appear to be the risk of developing cancer, to reduce and to interpret the test results overall life expectancy increase.
Why was now the theory, the sources of cholesterol as cardiovascular disease, so long and so successfully maintained?
The uncritical adoption and dissemination of failed interpreted investigation and study results in the medical literature may be one of the causes. The author, however, other aspects and motivations.
So the orthodox classifies cholesterol levels in adults of 200 mg / dL than normal. The average value of most of the world's population lies at about 250 mg / dl. Around 20% of the population have cholesterol levels from 300 to 350 mg / dl. Since the cholesterol levels of more than 200 mg / dl as too high and behandlungsbedürftig be evaluated, then we would now nearly 80% of the population ill explain. This high number of people, who are thus advance to patients fill out so that the medical practices and safeguard the doctors' incomes. Other beneficiaries would also be the pharmaceutical industry and manufacturers reduced cholesterol foods (such as the margarine producers).
These groups will be under a certain interest, "cholesterol errors" is not corrected. Some critics of the cholesterol theory even argue that the studies and investigations of members of that interest groups have been commissioned and sponsored. This would mean that they as sponsors and clients in a position to a certain influence on the implementation, evaluation and interpretation of the results of exercising.
Ultimately there is only the question of what factors as the most common cause of cardiovascular disease. These are:
-- Inheritance, assessment
-- Smoking
-- Obesity (obesity), obesity
-- Gout
-- Diabetes
-- High blood pressure
-- Chronic stress
-- Sedentary, in conjunction with a faulty
More short essays about the cholesterol lie, FA Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH, Munich, 21 Circulation 2005.