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Also eating sugar will create the kind of cholesterol that gets stuck in your arteries and may cause heart failure or stroke eating cholesterol or fat will have nothing to do with that except if you eat a ton of sugar and fat in which case you will get a heart attack while you are fat. Also eating sugar will create the kind of cholesterol that gets stuck in your arteries and may cause heart failure or stroke eating cholesterol or fat will have nothing to do with that except if you eat a ton of sugar and fat in which case you will get a heart attack while you are fat. Rubbishing the diet heart hypothesis in which clinical trials prove that high cholesterol causes heart disease and a high fat diet leads to heart disease malcolm kendrick lambastes a powerful pharmaceutical industry and unquestioning medical profession who he claims perpetuate the concepts of good and bad cholesterol. The main risk associated with high cholesterol is coronary heart disease chd this is caused by blood vessels becoming narrowed with fatty deposits called plaques which cholesterol contributes to the narrowed blood vessels reduce blood flow to the heart. Statins are widely prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels and claim to offer unparalleled protection against heart disease believed to be completely safe and capable of preventing a whole series of other conditions they are the most profitable drug in the history of medicine in this groundbreaking book gp malcolm kendrick exposes the truth behind the hype