Cholesterol: The Great Bluff

Oct 18, 2016

1h 23m

★ 8.1

Overview

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…

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Quark Productions

RTS

ARTE GEIE

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Cast

Self - Narrator (voice)

Anne Georget

Self - Journalist

Nina Teicholz

Self - Medical Journalist

Dominique Dupagne

Self - Food Historian

Harvey Levenstein

Self - Scientific Journalist

Gary Taubes

Self - Epidemiologist

Henry Blackburn

Self - Cardiologist

Michel de Lorgeril

Self - Physician

Uffe Ravnskov

Self - Nutritionist

Sylvain Duval

Self - Neuroscientist

Frank Pfrieger

Self - Nutritionist

Sally Fallon Morell

Self - Pathologist

Kilmer McCully

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