The link between low cholesterol and cancer, depression, anxiety

Here's some links regarding the link between low cholesterol and cancer, depression, anxiety, and preterm birth and low birth weight if your cholesterol is low while you're pregnant.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cholesterol-level/AN01394
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/152/3/419
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/138557.php
http://www.heart-disease-bypass-surgery.com/data/articles/130.htm

Some may cover the same, paltry research on this topic. Feel free to send me your links.

I was inspired today to post this because of a comment on JackNorrisRD.com. One commenter related that I took it as a personal affront when I encouraged that guy, via his own blog, to read what I had wrote about the need for cholesterol in some people. He refused because it wasn't peer reviewed scientific stuff. If I had taken it personally, I would have persisted. Instead, I just moved on after I made a witty remark about how that guy's screen name/handle is similar to his attitude. I was just pointing out irony. Geesh.

You see, whether you are a vegan, an omni, or a follower of some cult leader in Texas, if you don't think for yourself you are a waste of my time.

His perspective is that he would read about the need for higher cholesterol levels in some people once it made its way down from on high through the scientific community.

That is an interesting perspective, and one that will never likely happen, here's why:

In one corner we have Big Pharma happily doling out the statins* and when those statins patten's expire they will subject more animals to painful tests and start again. Those are nice, laid back folks those Big Pharma peeps, they never, ever influence policy or pay for research.

In the other corner we have Big AG happily doling out the dead beings pumped with antibiotics (from Big Pharma) and other disgusting things. Those are nice, laid back folks those Big AG peeps, they never, ever influence policy or pay for research or become members of non-profit organizations.

Nearly all of the medical community agrees: saturated fat and cholesterol from animal sources is the #1 reason why there's a high rate of heart disease.

So eat your meat. Take your pills. Watch some guy rant on TV. Get stressed out. Take more pills. Eat some sweets. Die.

Cholesterol need not be dietary. There's some stuff in the WAPF doctrine that you must eat meat and get dietary cholesterol, but that's just wacked IMO. You can raise your own good and bad cholesterol levels with different types of fats. However, there is a genetic disorder called SLOS and people with that require synthetic or dietary cholesterol. It's estimated that 1 in 30 people are carriers of SLOS (that's a lot of people). Is there a vegan geneticist in the house? A magic 8 ball?

In the meantime you've got people on a low fat vegan diet thinking they are doing the right thing by their family. After all this perfect, precious, healthy diet has been filtered down from on high. It's a no-brainer. Right.

Then they get sick and their teeth decay.

Not everyone can have a cholesterol levels of around 100 of the plant mostly diet of the Asians. They are Asians. Check out a healthy German, what are his or her levels? I don't know. But a question like that is not something to dismiss.

Some people like Sarah Palin and some people like Dennis Kucinich.

We are all different.

I like Dennis.

Special thanks goes out to the dude who didn't visit this blog and the reasons why. You are inspirational!

* Statins lower cholesterol and it would harm business if there was a bunch of publicity about how low cholesterol may be harmful to some.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100630121130.htm
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