The anti-fat/cholesterol movement was likely engendered by the processed food industry to sell more of their junk products. Any secondary school physiology texts will indicate that the satiety signal for humans is triggered by body's detection of fats and cholesterol entering the stomach and duodenum. Thus, almost immediately after chomping down a piece of marbled steak, the body releases grellin to signal "stop eating" message. By reducing and removing fats and cholesterol from much of the processed foods as "healthy" option, the junk food industry effectively produces food that bypasses the satiety signaling mechanism. It is quite sad how the supposedly well-learned MDs prattle the industry adverts regarding "evils" of fat, leading the unsuspecting down a path of overeating and ultimately unhealthy lifestyle.

The lunacy of labeling LDL "deadly" and HDL "good" by the medical industry is quite telling of their being bereft of critical thinking and understanding of their own supposed science. LDL and HDL molecules are but cholesterol and fat carriers; they are one entity arbitrarily divided by the content of fat. It is akin to labeling empty taxies as "LDL" and passenger carrying taxies as "HDL," then labeling passenger carrying taxies as "good" and vilifying empty taxies as "evil." Current anti-cholesterol scheme makes just about the same sense as a government outlawing empty taxies because only passenger carrying taxies ought to be on the streets. Pure pazzak.