Americans ate incredibly high cholesterol diets throughout their history. Yet myocardial infarction wass was never common in America until the late 19th century thru the Nor was it described by the ancient medical writers who were great observers despite its dramatic clinical presentation. In fact heart attack as we know it was not described until 1906 in the Russian medical literature and then in 1918 in the JAMA. What happened? In 1879 the mass production of narrow cylindrical cigarettes was made possible by the invention of the automatic cigarette making machine. Soon people began smoking cigarettes in huge quantities. The result was a marked increase in blood carbon monoxide levels that no mammal was genetically equipped to cope.
IMHO cigarettes were the culprit, not cholesterol so much. Since the 1964 Surgeon General’s report and the huge decline in cigarette use, the numbers aod bona fide myocardial infarctions and their severity have dropped dramatically. This decline cannot be attributed to medications or invasive cardiac interventions.
There’s no link between high cholesterol and heart disease and numerous studies have proven this. Big pharma pushes the lies to sell statins which are bad for your liver and muscles.
Big pharma sells lies and makes up diseases to sell drugs to low information patients.
Add to that:
Margarine was invented in 1869 by French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès:
Background
The French government offered a prize to anyone who could create a cheap alternative to butter in response to a food shortage.
Creation
Mège-Mouriès created the first margarine by mixing beef tallow with water and milk. He patented his creation, which he called oleomargarine, in 1869.
Early sales
In 1871, Mège-Mouriès sold the patent to a Dutch butter-making company. The first commercial cargo of margarine arrived in the UK in 1874.
Early restrictions
In the US, the dairy industry lobbied against margarine, fearing that butter sales would drop. In 1886, the Margarine Act was passed, imposing punitive fees against margarine manufacturers.
World War II
During World War II, shortages of fats and rationing of butter led many consumers to try margarine.
1950s
The Margarine Act of 1950 overturned many of the legal restrictions initially placed on margarine sales. By 1950, margarine manufacturers in the US had almost completely switched to vegetable oils and fats.
It’s far more complex than that. Atherosclerosis begins in the teen years with fatty plaque deposits already in the aorta and major turbulence points of large arteries. The most prevalent first warning sign of atherosclerotic heart disease (blocked arteries and heart attacks) before preventive medicine and longer life expectancy, has long been.....sudden death. That is, the first sign was often death, and that occurs in the 6th decade of life (50’s). When the life expectancy doesn’t let people live long enough to develop symptoms, when most children don’t live through the first two years of life because of infectious pneumonia, when the average person doesn’t get regular checkups and preventive medicines and other therapies to control elevated lipids, glucose, and blood pressure and to manage stress, diet, and inactivity, when inadequate caloric and nutrient intake are the norm, and when there are dangerous working conditions and frequent generational wars, then you see the early deaths, small populations, and young populations that dogged mankind for thousands of years, including Americans in the 18th and 19th centuries.