Cholesterol: The Great Bluff

Cholesterol: The Great Bluff

83 mins | Documentary | Oct. 18, 2016

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…

Cholesterol: The Great Bluff

83 mins | Documentary | Oct. 18, 2016

Cholesterol: The Great Bluff
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…
Producers RTS, ARTE GEIE, Quark Productions
Original title Cholestérol : le grand bluff
Directors Anne Georget
Writers Anne Georget

Cast

Anne Georget

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Nina Teicholz

as Self - Journalist

Dominique Dupagne

as Self - Medical Journalist

Harvey Levenstein

as Self - Food Historian

Gary Taubes

as Self - Scientific Journalist

Henry Blackburn

as Self - Epidemiologist

Michel de Lorgeril

as Self - Cardiologist

Uffe Ravnskov

as Self - Physician

Sylvain Duval

as Self - Nutritionist

Frank Pfrieger

as Self - Neuroscientist

Sally Fallon Morell

as Self - Nutritionist

Kilmer McCully

as Self - Pathologist

Cristin Kearns

as Self - Medical Researcher

Jeremy Green

as Self - Medical Historian

Mikael Rabaeus

as Self - Cardiologist

John Abramson

as Self - Medicine Professor

Beatrice Collomb

as Self - Medicine Professor

Ancel Keys

as Self - Nutritionist (archive footage)

Margaret Keys

as Self - Nutritionist (archive footage)

Jules Bergman

as Self - Scientific Journalist (archive footage)

William Castelli

as Self - Physician (archive footage)

Jeremiah Stamler

as Self - Epidemiologist (archive footage)

George V. Mann

as Self - Nutritional Biochemist (archive footage)

Joseph L. Goldstein

as Self - Biochemist (archive footage)

Michael Stuart Brown

as Self - Biochemist (archive footage)

Mandy Patinkin

as Self - TV Spot Announcer (archive footage)