Today we’re going to answer the question – what causes heart disease? If you talk to most doctors the answer will be cholesterol. To combat this the pharmaceutical industry created a drug to dramatically lower a person’s cholesterol levels. This drug, and all its variations, are called statins.

In my last post we looked at cholesterol and statin drugs. We examined both the positives and negatives of this pharmaceutical drug.

And because cholesterol is the enemy, the medical community has also recommended a diet that severely restricts the intake of fat. This combination of a low fat diet with statin drugs was suppose to address the cause of heart disease.

Yet cardiovascular disease is still the number one killer of men and women worldwide.

And while total number of deaths due to cardiovascular concerns have decrease over the last 20 years there has been a dramatic increase in diabetes and obesity. Which is causing an increase in the number of deaths due to heart disease.

Well, we now know why. Read More →