eddiemcm...the point that was made on the thincs.org site and elsewhere is that the cholesterol data is correlational, not necessarily causational. Why would high cholesterol cause heart attacks in men, and not women? Or not in older men? Why do half the people who get heart attacks have normal cholesterol? It may be predictive of heart attack, but this does mean that it causes it, and so lowering it may do nothing, unless at the same time, as with statins, you are likely decreasing inflammation and other factors that may in fact be what is causing it. Have you seen any evidence that lowering your cholesterol if you are male and between 35 to 57 DOES halve the actual incidence of CHD?

But you are right, we all have to read the evidence and make our own decisions about all this.

Val