The Framingham Study: Another Hoax

Framingham Heart Study is one of the most comprehensive and long-term epidemiological studies in cardiovascular health. The study began in 1948 in Framingham, Massachusetts, and has followed generations of residents to identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease.

It has been used as a kind of "evidence" for modern dietary advice, but here's the problem: their results were largely at odds with how it was presented.

Cholesterol – the myth that refuses to die

The most explosive (and deliberately ignored) conclusion from the Framingham study is this: For people over 50, High cholesterol not a risk factor for heart diseaseIn fact, those with the highest cholesterol had lower mortality rates.

It is true that in the younger groups some correlation was found between high cholesterol and heart disease. But the key word here is: correlation, not causation. As the participants got older, the relationship completely reversed – those with the lowest cholesterol died earlier, especially from strokes and other cardiovascular problems.

Stroke and Cholesterol: The Great Under-Communicated Bomb

Another thing the Framingham study revealed, but which is rarely mentioned, is that those with low cholesterol had a higher risk of stroke. This goes completely against the current mantra that we must lower cholesterol to protect the heart and brain.

A later follow-up of the Framingham data (published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 1997) showed that for every 1 mg/dL reduction in serum cholesterol increased the risk of stroke by 14%!

This was, of course, swept under the rug in public discourse, because it did not fit with the narrative that low cholesterol is always better.

Who Lives Longest? Not Those With Low Cholesterol

Another explosive charge from Framingham is that higher cholesterol in older age is associated with lower overall mortalityThis is entirely in line with recent research showing that older people with higher cholesterol levels have better cognitive function, a lower risk of infections and generally more robust health.

This should have set alarm bells ringing decades ago. Instead, we have been served cholesterol-lowering advice medicated into us, as if it were a biological error for the body to produce cholesterol.

What about fat?

The Framingham study has also been used to promote the idea that saturated fat is dangerous. But here's the thing: Those who ate more saturated fat did not have a higher risk of heart disease.

This has subsequently been confirmed in many other large meta-studies, including one from 2010 published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which concluded that it There is no significant association between saturated fat and heart disease.Yet dietary authorities are still stuck in an outdated paradigm.

Conclusion: Manipulation and misinformation

The Framingham study is a prime example of how data can be twisted to support a predetermined narrative. Instead of following the data, health authorities and the pharmaceutical industry have chosen to ignore the parts of the study that do not suit their agenda. The result? We are left with a population that is brainwashed into believing that cholesterol is dangerous, that fat is killing us, and that statins are a miracle cure.

The truth, as the Framingham study and many other studies actually show, is that high cholesterol is protective, saturated fat is not the enemy, and modern dietary advice is based on ideology – not science.

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