If LDL is so connected to CHD, then why do half of the folks who have MI's have normal cholesterol levels?

We seem to focus on what may be a symptom of what is most likely an underlying syndrome, i.e. inflammation, unstable plaques, metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, etc.

Kind of hard to swallow all those studies when a good portion of them (close to half I read lately) are funded by pharmaceutical companies and biotech.

But, each person must educate themselves and come to their own conclusions. We Westerners think we are so high and mighty with our medicine, yet most of what we do is treat symptoms.

Don't take this post the wrong way, just attempting to provoke some additional discussion =)