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Diet Causes High Cholesterol

     I've recently been told by a number of people that their doctors had told them that they probably had a family predisposition for high cholesterol or hereditary high cholesterol, and then their doctor had suggested they take a statin drug to lower their cholesterol.  In the United States people that have a genetic predisposition for having high cholesterol make up only 1/2 of 1% of the population or approximately 1.6 million people, but the number of people with high cholesterol in the United States is around 33% of the population or 107 million people, and around 35 million Americans currently take a statin drug to lower cholesterol, but 98% of everyone with high cholesterol in America could lower their own cholesterol by eating fewer animal products like meat, dairy and eggs.      If all doctors are telling all of their patients with high cholesterol that they probably have a genetic predisposition or hereditary high cholesterol to get...