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Monthly Archive August, 2009

Preserving the Cholesterol Myth

By Jeffry Fawcett, August 11, 2009 in the Editorials blog

Last week the media reported that researchers based at Kaiser Permanente found an association between cholesterol levels in middle-aged people and the risk for those people of developing Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia in old age. I thought, “Jeeze! These people just can’t leave it alone.” So I’d like to propose a cholesterol theory of my own: cholesterol causes obsessive and myopic behavior among researchers. [Read more…]