Yes, the elderly with low cholesterol tend to die of cancer or
infections or something else other than heart disease. People forget
that cholesterol is not a poison, it's critical to good health.
If I could find a diet that would promise me that I'll eventually go
suddenly lights out with a massive heart attack rather than cancer,
Alzheimer's or anything else I'd start on it tonight. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 9/19/2011 5:44 PM, classicvw@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> I think you hit the nail on the head. My laymen's suspicions all along tells
> me that genetics is the largest part of the equation,
> but they don't want to publicize that for fear that the general public will
> just say "The hell with it all, I'm doomed anyway"
> or the flip side- "I can do what I want, I'm protected by genetics" and not
> watch what they eat or exercise.
>
> Many years ago my wife did a research paper that supported the belief that
> very low cholesterol has a link to cancer.
> So the aforementioned study that found that people with high cholesterol
> actually lived longer also fits that cancer link theory.
>
> George S.
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> Maybe genetics is what nailed my son. Mother and father both with heart
> roblems. I hope the genetics is on your side.
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