Lore of Nutrition: Challenging conventional dietary beliefs

by Tim Noakes

Almost all conventionally trained cardiologists try to convince us that the best predictor of heart-attack risk is ‘cholesterol load’, which is an individual’s lifetime average blood cholesterol concentration multiplied by their age. Thus, the higher the average lifetime blood cholesterol concentration and the older the individual, the greater the damage to his (mainly, but also her) coronary arteries. So, according to this logic, an elevated blood cholesterol concentration is like an internal time bomb, just waiting to explode. This model therefore predicts that heart-attack risk in people with FH increases as they age and as their coronary arteries become progressively more clogged, until they eventually succumb to fatal heart disease by middle age.