2025-08-20
Yup, it's time to demolish another much repeated canard, this time concerning that deadly menace: cholesterol!
I was accosted at our local petrol station last week by a man who wanted me to contribute cash for the search for the "cure for Alzheimer's".
Well, such welI-intentioned folk have been exhorting me for years to contribute to the "cure for cancer" cause, but I am of the view that if they had looked for this mythological cure elsewhere rather than always in my wallet, then they might have had more success.
Anyway I didn't handle it as well as perhaps I should have, contenting myself (well, my vehicle was still blocking a petrol pump) with a quick exclamation of "Coconut Oil!" before continuing on my way. I expect he thought I was mad, but I'm used to that.
In point of fact I know a little about Alzheimer's, as my mother and grandmother were victims (see - it's inherited!) but I am not, even though I am now of comparable age to my Mum when she succumbed.
So maybe it isn't inherited. Or maybe I'll go down with it next week and you will all be treated to my increasingly incoherent ramblings on these pages until my sad demise in the fullness of time.
OK, I get it, you already are so treated!
So quite inappropriately (since Alzheimer's condemns one to a long and lingering passing), Died Suddenly's Substack spills the beans about the likely true cause: the epidemic of disinformation about "healthy eating" to which we have been subjected by "the authorities" for seemingly all my life (but from which I have recently benefited by the simple expedient of actually doing the opposite of their recommendations. And I've never looked back).
Don't be a victim - read the article.
