Ray H. Rosenman, MD--Former Director of Cardiovascular Research, SRI
Dr. Ravnskov has done a magnificent service. . . must reading for all interested persons, nutritionists and physicians.


Michael Gurr, PhD--Renowned Lipid Chemist
...he is not a lone voice in the wilderness and he deserves to be taken seriously.


Sally Fallon, author of Nourishing Traditions
Dr. Ravnskov's measured and clear-eyed analysis actually serves as a sledgehammer that breaks down barriers to healthy, sensible eating.


Book Description
A highly qualified doctor and scientist analyzes the studies used to justify the cholesterol hypothesis and demonstrates that the idea that animal fats and cholesterol cause heart disease is based on flimsy, even fraudulent evidence and wishful thinking. Includes a discussion on the dangers of vegetable oils and cholesterol-lowering drugs.


About the Author
Dr. Ravnskov has published almost 40 critical papers and letters about the alleged association between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. For his contributions in this field he received the Irish Skrabanek Award in 1999. His website (home2.swipnet.se/~w-25775), posted in 1997, has generated intense interest and has contributed to the emergence of skepticism about the diet-heart theory, now perculating through the medical community.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

A highly qualified doctor and scientist analyzes the studies used to justify the cholesterol hypothesis and demonstrates that the idea that animal fats and cholesterol cause heart disease is based on flimsy, even fraudulent evidence and wishful thinking. Includes a discussion on the dangers of vegetable oils and cholesterol-lowering drugs.

SYNOPSIS

Fear of saturated fat and cholesterol has prompted many Americans to abandon traditional foods for lowfat and processed foods based on vegetable oils. Dr. Ravnskov, a highly qualified physician and researcher, argues cogently and convincingly that saturated fat and cholesterol do not cause heart disease and that cholesterol-lowering measures can be dangerous. Contains brilliant statistical analyses, explained in layman￯﾿ﾽs terms. Includes discussion of the Ornish studies, the Mediterranean diet, hazards of vegetable oils and cholesterol lowering for children. Find out why the Diet-Heart idea is ￯﾿ﾽthe greatest scam in the history of medicine.￯﾿ﾽ

About the AuthorUffe Ravnskov was born 1934 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He received his medical degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1961. During the next seven years, he worked at various surgical, roentgenological, neurological, pediatric and medical departments in Denmark and Sweden. He then began scientific studies at the Departments of Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry at the University Hospital in Lund, Sweden, and was awarded his Ph.D. in 1973. Dr. Ravnskov entered private practice as a specialist in internal medicine and nephrology in 1979 and since that time has worked as a family doctor and an independent researcher in Lund.

Since 1990 he has published almost 40 critical papers and letters about the alleged association between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease in well-known Scandinavian and international peer-reviewed medical journals. For his contributions in this field he received the Irish Skrabanek Award 1999. Dr. Ravnskov has also published many critical articles on this subject in major Scandinavian newspapers.

Among his many other scientific contributions are more than 20 papers on the cause of glomerulonephritis, which in most countries is the most common cause of end-stage kidney failure.

His book The Cholesterol Myth was published in Sweden 1991 and in Finland a year later. His website on the subject posted in 1997, has generated intense interest. The Cholesterol Myths is an updated and expanded version of the website and his earlier book.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Dr. Ravnskov has done a magnificent service with a scholarly book that gathers a vast body of impressive evidence and will surprise many with the true facts from research studies. The book is a must reading for all interested persons and certainly should be required reading for nutritionists and all physicians who treat patients.  — Ray H. Rosenman, MD Former Director of Cardiovascular Research, SRI

But what about heart disease?￯﾿ﾽ This is the response of many Americans when advised to consume the foods of their ancestors, foods like butter, whole milk, eggs and meat. Fear of saturated fat and cholesterol has put a solid brick wall between the consumer and satisfying, nutritious food￯﾿ﾽand filled the coffers of the food processing industry. Dr. Ravnskov￯﾿ﾽs measured and clear-eyed analysis actually serves as a sledgehammer that breaks down barriers to healthy, sensible eating.  — Sally Fallon Author of Nourishing Traditions

Equipped with a razor-sharp mind, an impressive command of the literature, and a deadly, needling sarcasm, Ravnskov methodically slaughters the most famous Sacred Cow of modern medicine and the most profitable Cash Cow for assorted pharmaceutical companies. Sparing no one, Ravnskov again and again presents the tenets of the Lipid Hypothesis and the studies which supposedly prove them, and shows how the studies are flawed or based on manipulated statistics that actually prove nothing. Ravnskov then answers the objections or rationalizations offered by diet-heart supporters, desperate to explain away inconsistencies and contradictions in their own data.  — Stephen Byrnes, ND Author of Health on the Edge Electronic Newsletter