[steve86]

Somehow homo sapiens has made it for at least 100,000 years without cholesterol drugs McDonalds and Burger King

[angkor]

Somehow homo sapiens has made it for at least 100,000 years without cholesterol drugs [McDonalds and Burger King] whale and seal blubber, various high-cholesterol animal brains, slabs of rino and elephant fat, heaps of fowl eggs, brazed chunks of solid pig fat, and all topped with mounds of butter.

One needs to escape America and AMA propaganda to see how and what people actually do eat in other societies.

IMO Americans are grossly overdiagnosed and overmedicated, and cholesterol is one of the biggest myths of all. It's an issue in continual medical dispute, was actually said NOT TO BE A PROBLEM a few years ago, then it was made a problem again, and now the allowable numbers have been ratcheted down so low that large percentages of the American population are taking anti-cholesterol medications, which is precisely the point of the article above.

Viewed from afar, America has become a paranoid hypochondriac nation and is prescribed WAYYYYYY too many drugs.