Product Description

The diet-heart-cholesterol connection is fiction. It has thrived in the consciousness of people with the nourishment of forces in the fund-raising community, academia, the government, and the food industry. The motive for maintaining this hoax? Profit! So says Sheldon Zerden, who has seen the myth continue unabated with billions of dollars a year in business. He says that the whole heart-health industry has led sane men of science astray and has compromised the lives of almost everyone. He says that if the truth were admitted, this profit machine would go up in flames and take the food and pharmaceutical industries with it. The Cholesterol Hoax reveals the biggest medical scam of the century -- maybe the biggest scam of all time. It has mushroomed into a trillion dollar business which has compromised the lives of almost everyone.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2641481 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 129 pages

About the Author
Sheldon Zerden

Customer Reviews

A little thought provoking, but didn't like the style
In all honesty I felt slightly patronised by this. It is good to hear the cholesterol arguments questioned, but there was little science in here. Assuming the quotes are all genuine, which I do, does lead me to question the cholesterol = heart disease correlation which is generally assumed. That said, I don't feel armed to discuss it much with my GP from any position of strength. I was looking for a little more theory than it presented. It is a list of "Lie number n" followed by debunk statements, which isn't a style I like, but could live with if some of these didn't overlap so much.