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“It's as if they saw a house burning and determined that the bigger the fire, the more fireman are present, and then concluded that firemen cause burning houses.”
― Uffe Ravnskov

“It's as if they saw a house burning and determined that the bigger the fire, the more firemen are present, and then concluded that firemen cause burning houses.”
― Uffe Ravnskov, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease

“Atherosclerosis has nothing to do with the concentration of cholesterol in the blood.”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive

“But improved risk factors did not lead to better end results. In the group who exercised, reduced their weight, ate less animal and more vegetable fat, and had quitted smoking, twice as many heart attacks were seen as in the control group.[155]”
― Uffe Ravnskov, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease

“Do you avoid butter, cheese and cream because you are afraid of dying from a heart attack? Do”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive

“It is impossible to build cell walls and nerve fibres without cholesterol. We”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive

“low cholesterol is a frequent finding in people with various types of mental disturbances.”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive

“there is experimental evidence that trans fatty acids may inhibit growth, for instance from a study by Dr. Atal and his coworkers at various institutions at the University of Maryland and at the National Institutes of Health.[263] They gave young mice two different diets. The only difference between the diets was that a tiny amount of normal fatty acids (not of the vital ones) was substituted with the same amount of trans fatty acids. After two years the body weight of the mice fed with trans fatty acids was 20-25% lower than the weight of the control mice. Thus,”
― Uffe Ravnskov, The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease

“There is much evidence that reducing cholesterol may produce cancer.”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive

“Pharmaceutical companies split up one serious side effect into several minor groups to prevent their drug from not being approved. This is an established method to keep alarming adverse effects below the one percent level. Amnesia for instance can be split into confusion, memory weakness, senility, dementia and impaired cognitive function. A serious and rather common problem simply falls apart when split into small groups.”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive

“Consider for example, that in 2002 the combined profits for the ten drug companies on the global business magazine Fortune’s 500 list were greater than the profits for all the other 490 businesses put together.”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive

“If so, you are a victim of the cholesterol campaign, the greatest medical scandal in modern times. Even”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive

“The truth is that the warnings against saturated fat are based upon data which has been manipulated.”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive

“All cells are able to take up cholesterol from the blood if their own production is insufficient.”
― Uffe Ravnskov, Ignore the awkward! How the cholesterol myths are kept alive