Cholesterol: The Great Bluff

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2016 / 83min.

Rating8.1

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the past fifty years and has led to the development of a billion-dollar, low-fat, food industry, as well as to statins, a drug that lower “bad cholesterol” levels, so it has became one of the most prescribed medicines in the world. But more and more researchers are openly questioning the mainstream opinions on cholesterol…

Directors

Actors

Mandy Patinkin

Nina Teicholz

Sally Fallon Morell

Jules Bergman

Ancel Keys

Gary Taubes

Anne Georget

Dominique Dupagne

Harvey Levenstein

Henry Blackburn

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