I would discount what this article says about cholesterol. It sounds like a bid to get more people into the doctor's office and on statin drugs. The studies do not show that elevated cholesterol causes heart disease. In the big Framingham study, for example, "high" cholesterol was no predictor of heart problems in men over 47--quite the opposite: low cholesterol was the indicator of problems.

Studies of Canadian and Russian men also showed that cholesterol was no risk factor. Most studies show that it is no risk factor in women.

The French eat a high-fat diet and have little heart disease. Etc., etc., etc. The hypothesis is full of holes.

When a correlation does appear, it is weak, with a co-efficient of 0.36. A perfect correlation is 1.0.

For details on this and more, see Uffe Ravnskov's The Cholesterol Myths.

Sheldon