causes heart disease. Instead, as I argue in Chapter 17, the introduction of population-based screening for blood cholesterol concentrations is what leads to arterial disease, because it teaches doctors and dietitians to prescribe high-carbohydrate diets (and statins) to people with normal (i.e. below 7.5 mmol/L) blood total cholesterol concentrations but who are insulin resistant. Prescribing high-carbohydrate diets for those with IR can produce only one result: an epidemic increase in T2DM, with its associated scourge – disseminated obstructive arterial disease of all the key blood vessels
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