I would recommend this article at http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/benefits_cholest.html as a starting point for all who want to understand more about cholesterol.

Moreover, Gary Taubes dedicated two chapters in Good Calories/Bad Calories to a very detailed and technical discussion of cholesterol. The bottom line is LDL and total cholesterol is not a predictor of heart disease in anyone.

Are there any cardiologists, vascular specialists, physicians, etc. who agree that total cholesterol of 256 or 273 or higher is healthy? If so, do they have websites/ blogs?

Thanks

So he postulates that the Navaho Indians of San Juan County, Utah were protected from cancer because the dietary non-use of eggs, milk and rare meat – these same foods are known to contain reverse transcriptase viruses that are responsible for neoplasm development in the respective animal.

The book was written in 1992 and has good info for IBS, Colitis etc but there is a lot of other things he writes that make me shake my head.
I’m just wondering if it is risky to eat rare meat and runny eggs.
The guy says a lot of things in his book that are incorrect like strict carb or near elimination of carbs results in ketoacidosis,you do not become fat from eating carbs, but from eating fats. Here is a direct quote:

“You cannot fatten hogs on wheat. Wheat has a high starch content and is low in fat. Corn, on the other hand, has a fairly high fat content. Thus to fatten hogs, you must provide them with preformed fat! In recent years, researchers have arrived at the same conclusion abot the human body. It, too, is very poor at turning carbohydrates into fat. This observation has tremendous implications for irritable bowel sufferers. It suggests that the fat accumulated in the body is fat which has been eaten, not fat that has been manufactured in the body by the conversion of carbohydrates or proteins. You do not become fat from eating carbohydrates, but from eating fats. In mild irritable bowel disease, fats are absorbed excessively”.