Fat is a healthy and essential part of a balanced diet adding fat to meals and snacks may facilitate weight loss by boosting feelings of fullness 2 cholesterol rich foods are unhealthy many . This book identifies a lack of scientific information supporting a role of cholesterol and dietary fat in heart disease and argues that fat and cholesterol are active components of our immune system and therefore good for you the most interesting part of this book is however the authors hypothesis about what really causes heart disease. Content 5 publication 4 thoroughly convincing and empirically detailed demolition of the diet heart lipid hypothesis for coronary heart disease and stroke at no point in the chain from consumption of evil saturated fat to diet mediated blood cholesterol levels to the bad ldl cholesterol to the role and causes of atherosclerosis and its purported link to heart disease does the . Fat and cholesterol are good for you by uffe ravnskov published january 2009 uffe ravnskov paperback 17 offers from gbp4640 next page more items to explore page 1 of 1 start over page 1 of 1 previous page cholesterol down ten simple steps to lower your cholesterol in four weeks without prescription drugs