Cholesterol: The Great Bluff (2016)

ALL 10/18/2016 (fr) Documentary 83 Min
  • Release
    10/18/2016
  • Production
    Quark Productions, RTS, ARTE GEIE
  • Rotten tomato
    81%
  • Original title
    Cholestérol : le grand bluff
  • Original language
    fr
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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…

  1. Anne Georget

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Producer



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  1. Anne Georget

    Self - Narrator (voice)

  2. Nina Teicholz

    Self - Journalist

  3. Dominique Dupagne

    Self - Medical Journalist

  4. Harvey Levenstein

    Self - Food Historian

  5. Gary Taubes

    Self - Scientific Journalist

  6. Henry Blackburn

    Self - Epidemiologist

  7. Michel de Lorgeril

    Self - Cardiologist

  8. Uffe Ravnskov

    Self - Physician

  9. Sylvain Duval

    Self - Nutritionist

  10. Frank Pfrieger

    Self - Neuroscientist

  11. Sally Fallon Morell

    Self - Nutritionist

  12. Kilmer McCully

    Self - Pathologist

  13. Cristin Kearns

    Self - Medical Researcher

  14. Jeremy Green

    Self - Medical Historian

  15. Mikael Rabaeus

    Self - Cardiologist

  16. John Abramson

    Self - Medicine Professor

  17. Beatrice Collomb

    Self - Medicine Professor

  18. Ancel Keys

    Self - Nutritionist (archive footage)

  19. Margaret Keys

    Self - Nutritionist (archive footage)

  20. Jules Bergman

    Self - Scientific Journalist (archive footage)

  21. William Castelli

    Self - Physician (archive footage)

  22. Jeremiah Stamler

    Self - Epidemiologist (archive footage)

  23. George V. Mann

    Self - Nutritional Biochemist (archive footage)

  24. Joseph L. Goldstein

    Self - Biochemist (archive footage)

  25. Michael Stuart Brown

    Self - Biochemist (archive footage)

  26. Mandy Patinkin

    Self - TV Spot Announcer (archive footage)

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Casts : 26 , Crews : 6

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Cholesterol: The Great Bluff (2016) 83 Min

ALL 10/18/2016 (fr)
Documentary
  • Release 10/18/2016
  • Production
    Quark Productions, RTS, ARTE GEIE
  • Original title Cholestérol : le grand bluff
  • fr
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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…

  1. Anne Georget

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Valérie Salvy

    Editor

  4. Producer