{"id":61589,"date":"2025-09-21T08:25:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61589"},"modified":"2025-09-21T08:25:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T22:25:25","slug":"cholesterol-does-not-cause-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61589","title":{"rendered":"Cholesterol Does Not Cause Heart Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cholesterol_Does_Not_Cause_Heart_Disease.jpg\" alt=\"Cholesterol Does Not Cause Heart Disease\" width=\"531\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cholesterol_Does_Not_Cause_Heart_Disease.jpg 531w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cholesterol_Does_Not_Cause_Heart_Disease-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cholesterol Does Not Cause Heart Disease<\/p>\n<p>A one-year prospective study found no correlation between atherosclerosis and extremely high cholesterol levels in 100 otherwise metabolically healthy individuals who had followed a ketogenic diet for an average of five years.<\/p>\n<p>This has been known for years yet statins are still being pushed on people. They pester people until they give in.<\/p>\n<p>Finish reading:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/new-study-shakes-up-heart-disease-theory-high-cholesterol-may-not-mean-high-risk\/\">https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/new-study-shakes-up-heart-disease-theory-high-cholesterol-may-not-mean-high-risk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cholesterol Does Not Cause Heart Disease A one-year prospective study found no correlation between atherosclerosis and extremely high cholesterol levels in 100 otherwise metabolically healthy individuals who had followed a ketogenic diet for an average of five years. This has been known for years yet statins are still being pushed on people. They pester people &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=61589\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cholesterol Does Not Cause Heart Disease&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61591,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61589\/revisions\/61591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}