Separating FAT From Fiction – Cholesterol, Statins, Saturated Fat & Your Health

The Lipid-Heart Hypothesis
For the last 40 years the dietary instructions from governments and other authoritative bodies have told us that saturated fat is bad because it leads to clogged arteries, heart attacks and strokes.

The theory goes like this:
Saturated fat raises LDL cholesterol in the blood.
LDL cholesterol lodges in the arteries, causing atherosclerosis and eventually heart disease.

Eggs – Nature’s Multivitamin

Eggs are so incredibly nutritious that they’re often called “nature’s multivitamin.” The nutrients in them are enough to turn a single cell into an entire baby chicken.

However, eggs have been demonized in the past because they contain a large amount of cholesterol, which was believed to increase the risk of heart disease.
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But the truth is that despite being high in cholesterol, eggs don’t really raise the bad cholesterol in the blood. In fact, eggs primarily raise the “good” cholesterol.

A Spoonful of Sugar Makes the Medicine (and Your Health) Go Down

Let’s face it — we could all probably use a little assistance in the sugar department.

The U.S. ranks number one worldwide with the highest sugar consumption per person, currently at 126 grams (that’s 29 teaspoons!) of sugar per person per day. All this extra added sugar is extremely detrimental for your health.

Nearly 75 percent of adults in the U.S. get approximately 10 percent of their daily calories from added sugar

Science News: Antioxidant Reverses Aging by 15 to 20 Years

According to a new study performed in the University of Colorado, Boulder, older adults who took a novel antioxidant that specifically targets cellular powerhouses, or mitochondria, saw aging of their blood vessels reverse by the equivalent of 15 to 20 years within six weeks!
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This study adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that nutraceuticals (pharmaceutical-grade nutritional supplements), could play an important role in preventing heart disease – currently the number one leading cause of death in the U.S.. The study was published in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension.