By Shane Ellison
High cholesterol leads to heart disease, right?
Wrong!
Heart disease is not a disease of high cholesterol. If cholesterol were the culprit, this ubiquitous substance would clog up the entire 100,000 miles of adult veins, arteries and capillaries. Instead, 90 percent of heart disease cases are caused by the narrowing of the spaghetti-sized coronary arteries. [...]

By Joseph McCaffrey, MD, FACS
We’ve all heard that high cholesterol can kill us. Most physicians react by reaching for their prescription pads. Drugs to lower cholesterol, especially the statin drugs like Mevacor and Lipitor, are among the most commonly prescribed drugs on the market. Unfortunately, like all drugs, they come with side affects. We’d be [...]