Why do people still believe cholesterol is bad?

Question

I'm curious why so many people still believe cholesterol (or saturated fat for that matter) has anything to do with heart disease when there is a lot of evidence that it doesn't. Are people just not slightly curious about something like cholesterol where the drug companies spend huge sums of money to sell their products (statins) directly to consumers?

http://www.thincs.org/

Answer 1

Hey Dirty Sanchez, he is right. Saturated fat and cholesterol is actually healthy for you.

http://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol.htm

Answer 2

well people with high cholesterol are more likely to have cardiovascular disease. the more saturated fat, and foods high in trans-fat, that they eat the higher the LDL-cholesterol level gets and cholesterol accumulates in cells, which line the arteries, plaque develops, and it interferes with circulation.

eating unsaturated fatty acids can lower LDL-cholesterol levels

so yea cholesterol is tied to heart disease

Answer 3

for the same reason why many still think that resistance training stunts the growth or that performing more reps with a lighter weight increases definition. many people get their information from the wrong sources or give others information based on their opinions and not from proven scientific facts