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		<title>MY FAITH IN SWEET SCIENCE IS DOUBLE-BLIND</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those chiropractors certainly look like willfully ignorant charlatans but some medical doctors are also guilty of the same unwillingness to perform or abide by the results of randomized trials. For example angioplasty of coronary arteries for &#8220;treating&#8221; stable angina (chest pain caused by inadequate blood flow to the heart during exercise) has been shown in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=987&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cardiac disease threatens diabetics</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/cardiac-disease-threatens-diabetics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Terrence Ruddy, chief of cardiology at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, says the increasing number of people with diabetes is a major concern across the medical profession.
“The increasing number with diabetes is directly related to the increasing number with obesity,” he says. “We have an epidemic of obesity in young and older people. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=743&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JUPITER is a gas giant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent article by André Picard in today&#8217;s Globe and Mail, the only story on JUPITER I have seen in the lay press that reveals the massive fraud behind the reporting of this &#8220;study&#8221;.
JUPITER is aptly named. It&#8217;s gigantic. Probably the largest, most expensive drug trial in history. When one looks below the surface of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=705&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CRP is only a marker and does not cause disease</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/crp-is-only-a-marker-and-does-not-cause-disease/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Paul Ridker, the inventor of a method for sensitively measuring C-reactive protein, has made a career and much money flogging the notion that C-Reactive protein, produced in the liver in response to various physiological stresses like inflammation and abdominal obesity, is the cause of atherosclerosis and must be treated. Ridker&#8217;s web site promotes the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=613&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prudent diet staves off heart woes (The Gazette, 21 Oct 2008, Page A4)</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/prudent-diet-staves-off-heart-woes-the-gazette-21-oct-2008-page-a4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a surprising finding, Dr. Yusuf. Fifteen years ago Dean Ornish proved that atherosclerosis, the underlying cause of heart attacks, could be reversed with a version of the prudent diet.  So why isn`t everyone doing this? Maybe because the cholesterol myth promoted by drug dealers and doctors on their payrolls convinced the population that all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=600&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of their league?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Russian hockey league is blamed for 19 year old Alexei Cherepanov&#8217;s death from atherosclerosis, proven by autopsy. Since when has hockey playing been a risk factor for atherosclerosis? There are two causes: tobacco and an atherogenic diet. I assume he didn&#8217;t smoke.
The league is blamed for not detecting it sooner. How would they have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=595&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heart Attack at Age 19</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/heart-attack-at-age-19/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cherepanov is not the first young Russian athlete to die of atherosclerosis. Remember Sergei Grinkov? The Russian diet is highly atherogenic and Russia has one of the highest rates of death from coronary artery disease.
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In 1994 Gordeeva &#38; Grinkov returned to Olympic competition and captured their second gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=584&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pfizer abandons &#8220;cholesterol&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/pfizer-abandons-cholesterol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After spending tens of $billions in DTC ads and bribes to doctors to terrorize the world into believing that blood &#8220;bad cholesterol&#8221; is the cause of atherosclerosis, the most common fatal disease, and selling hundreds of $billions worth of Lipitor to lower it, Pfizer has admitted there is no truth to and no more profit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=571&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obesity weighs heavy on heart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bottom line: obese people have heart attacks at least ten years sooner and have much more diabetes than thin people, regardless of their blood cholesterol. So all those who say fat is OK as long as you are happy are wrong. And all those drug dealers say you are OK as long as you take [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=566&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effectively treating atherosclerosis without angioplasty or bypass</title>
		<link>http://medicalmyths.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/effectively-treating-atherosclerosis-without-angioplasty-or-bypass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colin Rose</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cardiology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dr. G.S.H. Lock]]></category>
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Below is a example of the issues involved in treating chronic coronary atherosclerosis presented by an intelligent patient who asked questions about treatment and did not accept the mainstream opinion without good evidence.
The vast majority of patients with chronic coronary artery atherosclerosis can be treated as the patient described here. Most cardiologists still believe the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=medicalmyths.wordpress.com&blog=4095333&post=561&subd=medicalmyths&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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