{"id":130,"date":"2008-12-11T17:00:07","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wfac-gym.com\/WFACnews2\/?p=130"},"modified":"2008-12-11T17:00:07","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T23:00:07","slug":"ldl-cholesterol-bad-cholesterol-or-bad-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"LDL Cholesterol: &#8220;Bad&#8221; Cholesterol, or Bad Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the conclusion, to tempt you to read the entire article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept that LDL is &#8220;bad cholesterol&#8221; is a simplistic and<br \/>\nscientifically untenable hypothesis.<br \/>\nThe inordinate focus on cholesterol, a perfectly natural<br \/>\nsubstance that performs many crucial functions in the body, has<br \/>\ntaken and continues to take valuable resources and attention away<br \/>\nfrom factors more closely related to heart disease.<br \/>\nIndependent-thinking practitioners must look at the readily<br \/>\navailable evidence for themselves, instead of relying on the<br \/>\ncontinual stream of anticholesterol propaganda emanating from<br \/>\n&#8220;health authorities.&#8221; By doing so, they will quickly realize that the<br \/>\nLDL hypothesis is aggressively promoted for reasons other than<br \/>\npublic health.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnthony Colpo<br \/>\nJournal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 10 Number 3 Fall 2005\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/files\/badscience.pdf\">Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the conclusion, to tempt you to read the entire article: The concept that LDL is &#8220;bad cholesterol&#8221; is a simplistic and scientifically untenable hypothesis. The inordinate focus on cholesterol, a perfectly natural substance that performs many crucial functions in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/?p=130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wfac-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wfac-gym.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}