[AT] now Heart concerns

[Dan Glass]

A few years ago they said coconut oil would kill you and now it is a 
health food.  Also, in the fifties cranberries caused cancer but I guess 
cranberries got better.
On 2/21/2015 10:34 AM, Ralph Goff wrote:
> On 2/21/2015 9:01 AM, Herb Metz wrote:
>> Dan, I have been playing that 'high cholesterol game' since mid 1990's; I
>> certainly agree with you in wondering WHO. We are the pawns. I have wanted
>> to ask Stephen Offiler for more info as to his apparent difference of
>> opinion on preventive heart care that he briefly mentioned a couple weeks
>> ago.
>> About the only thing every 'health authority' agrees on is the need to stay
>> active; I can remember a conversation from late fortys when Dad and a cousin
>> were discussing health care. Dad noted that doctors 'used to' tell recently
>> retired people to sit back and relax and enjoy life because they had worked
>> hard all their life and now should take it easy, but unfortunately those
>> people were buried a few years later, so doctors had recently quit telling
>> people that.  They are learning more every day; unfortunately every thing
>> must be approved by Big Pharma and by AMA (who has huge bunch of lobbyists).
>> Herb(GA)
> Information (facts?) seem to keep changing as time passes. Good/bad
> cholesterol? Eat dairy and eggs? First no, then yes.
> They keep changing the rules.
> I had relatives who worked hard with plenty of manual labour (cutting
> firewood) all their lives, were not overweight or
>    smokers, died of heart attacks in their seventies.
> Result, I eat as much of whatever I want and don't worry about it.
>
> Ralph in Sask.
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