Originally Posted by Conductor71

You must read Mary Enig. She is a nutritionist who has done extensive research on lipids and challenged the status quo by saying it is all the transfats in margarine and synthetic oils causing disease. The whole high cholesterol causes heart disease frenzy is based on nothing other than a hypothesis proposed in the 50's resulting from research done on rabbits. Never mind that rabbits are essentially vegetarian! Despite long term data in humans and post mortem studies showing that cholesterol levels vary widely in cases of artherosclerosis, people are still on drugs like Lipitor. Think of all the money that is still being made on a bogus theory. It is just crazy how these things take on a life of their own.

The Oiling of America.