BOOK REVIEWS The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and

With courage and care Dr. Ravnskov exposes the lack of experimental evi-dence for the diet-heart theory (DHT), which claims that eating less fat and cholesterol will prevent atherosclerosis. He shows how the abstract or conclu-sions of a number of papers are at odds with the actual data in the papers. He demonstrates how the use of one statistical method in preference to another can give a false impression that there is an effect of drug or diet in lowering total death rates, where there is, in fact, no significant effect. “This book was written to give you and your doctor some facts about choles-terol and coronary heart disease (CHD). They are facts that even your doctor may not know because these facts have been misunderstood; or because many scientists, health authorities and representatives of the drug companies have suppressed them altogether ” (p. 5). Surprisingly, this author has included about 2 dozen cartoons to make this very wrenching expose more palatable. The chapters are called “Myths. ” Here are the chapter titles, which certainly show the direction of this book