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<p>Well, that and the multi-million marketing campaigns from the drug companies. The world didn’t just wake up out of the blue one morning and suddenly decide that high cholesterol means you will have a heart attack tomorrow. That new conventional wisdom was carefully built in a sustained marketing effort that includes massive TV advertising, massive sales efforts to doctors, and controlling the national health boards to ensure that cholesterol standards are published and the sale of cholesterol-lowering drugs is encouraged, if no outright mandated.</p>
<p>It’s the closed-loop nature of the marketing and the dominant influence of the drug companies that requires consumers to be skeptical, IMO.</p>