There is a fundamental assumption that dietary cholesterol is the cause of heart disease. Millions of Kenyans have...
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Trans-Fats – A Master of Disguise
Dr Nam Mburu, , Media, cholesterol, heart disease, the star kenya, trans-fats, 0There is one thing that everyone in the nutrition field, myself included, agrees on – foods containing artificial...
BUTTER – Always Better
Dr Nam Mburu, , Media, butter, cholesterol, margarine, saturated fat, the star kenya, 0A few weeks ago, I wrote about the garbage that is margarine. Many readers got in touch with...
If you have been avoiding eggs because they contain “too much” cholesterol, which you believe could lead to...
THE FRENCH PARADOX – A Black Swan Event?
Dr Nam Mburu, , Micro Blog, cholesterol, french paradox, heart disease, saturated fat, 0The French have the highest consumption of animal fat in Europe, and/yet the lowest rate of heart disease....
LDL CHOLESTEROL – The Inconvenient Truth
Dr Nam Mburu, , Health, blood fats, cholesterol, HDL, ldl, saturated fat, triglycerides, 0Deep within the war on cholesterol lies the supervillain, LDL cholesterol. When your doctor orders ‘cholesterol tests’, this...
The Cholesterol Obsession | Part 4 – Causes of Heart Disease
Dr Nam Mburu, , Health, big pharma, cholesterol, heart disease, statins, vested interests, 0This concluding part of the heart health series describes the real causes of heart disease. What really...
The Cholesterol Obsession | Part 3 – Statins
Dr Nam Mburu, , Health, big pharma, cholesterol, lipitor, relative risk, statins, 0Part 3 of this series on heart health describes how the fear of cholesterol has been propagated and...
The Cholesterol Obsession | Part 2 – LDL Cholesterol and Risk Calculators
Dr Nam Mburu, , Health, cholesterol, dietary guidelines, ldl, risk calculators, 0Part 2 of this series on heart health, describes the clinical consequences of focusing obsessively on LDL, and...
The Cholesterol Obsession | Part 1 – The War on Cholesterol
Dr Nam Mburu, , Health, artherosclerosis, black swan theory, cholesterol, diabetes, familial hypercholesterolaemia, french paradox, heart disease, low fat, 0Part 1 of this 4 part series describes the origin of the war on cholesterol, and why your cholesterol...