Jantimot......................."My father's cholesterol was...

Jantimot

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"My father's cholesterol was "high" at 6.0, so he fought it down to 4.5 by cutting out all the fats, stopped smoking, exercised more, lost 10kg, kept up the couple of glasses of wine and bam, had a massive stroke."

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That reminded me of a study published 20 or so years ago on Scandinavian men who had had their first heart attack. Test group gave up the fags, exercised more, lost weight, the usual.
Compared to the control group who didn't change their lifestyle they had a much greater mortality rate.
I used to clip out counter intuitive articles like that from the papers, but that was way before the net. Now examples like that are everywhere.

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"They don't tell you that low cholesterol is associated with a greater chance of a stroke, do they?"

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Number one rule of propaganda(or public health campaigns or advertising or PR or spin)is keep the message simple and and consistent and repeat it often. Whether it is right or wrong is beside the point.

cheers