Statin Nation (2013)

We are told that cholesterol is a major cause of heart disease At least 40 million people are currently taking cholesterollowering medications known as statins and millions more people are avoiding foods that contain saturated fat and cholesterol The basic idea is that dietary saturated fat raises cholesterol levels and these two substances somehow clogup our arteries causing a heart attack This idea is often referred to as the dietheart hypothesis However a number of doctors and researchers have been challenging this hypothesis for decades and the latest heart disease statistics reveal some alarming facts