The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the past fifty years and has led to the development of a billion-dollar, low-fat, food industry, as well as to statins, a drug that lower “bad cholesterol” levels, so it has became one of the most prescribed medicines in the world. But more and more researchers are openly questioning the mainstream opinions on cholesterol…
Anne Georget
Self - Narrator (voice)
Nina Teicholz
Self - Journalist
Dominique Dupagne
Self - Medical Journalist
Harvey Levenstein
Self - Food Historian
Gary Taubes
Self - Scientific Journalist
Henry Blackburn
Self - Epidemiologist
Michel de Lorgeril
Self - Cardiologist
Uffe Ravnskov
Self - Physician
Sylvain Duval
Self - Nutritionist
The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the past fifty years and has led to the development of a billion-dollar, low-fat, food industry, as well as to statins, a drug that lower “bad cholesterol” levels, so it has became one of the most prescribed medicines in the world. But more and more researchers are openly questioning the mainstream opinions on cholesterol…
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