The Great Cholesterol Con The Truth about What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It

Statins are widely prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels and claim toffer unparalleled protection against heart disease. Believed to beompletely safe and capable of preventing a whole series of other conditions,hey are the most profitable drug in the history of medicine. In thisroundbreaking book, GP Malcolm Kendrick exposes the truth behind the hype.e will change the way we think about cholesterol forever. Rubbishing theiet-heart hypothesis, in which clinical trials 'prove' that high cholesterolauses heart disease and a high-fat diet leads to heart disease, Kendrickambastes a powerful pharmaceutical industry and unquestioning medicalrofession, who, he claims, perpetuate the madcap concepts of 'good' andbad' cholesterol and cholesterol levels to convince millions of people tonnecessarily spend billions of pounds on statins. Clearly andomprehensively debunking assumptions on what constitute a healthy lifestylend diet, "The Great Cholesterol Con" is the accessible, indispensable andbsorbing case against statins and for a more common-sense approach to heart