Bypass surgery costs the patient approximately $30,000-$40,000. There are also risks (3%-9% mortality rate during or after surgery).

Over 50% of bypass patients have recurrences within five years.

Balloon angioplasty, another precarious, invasive form of treatment, costs the patient $15,000 - $20,000 and presents high risks of recurrence within 3 to 5 months.

Conventional cholesterol-lowering drugs, such as Lovastatin, may cost an average of $500 - 2,000 per year, per person. These drugs have various short-term and/or long-range side-effects.

A chorus of establishment voices, including the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and the Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, claims that animal fat is linked not only with heart disease but also with cancers of various types. Yet when researchers from the University of Maryland analyzed the data they used to make such claims, they found that vegetable fat consumption was correlated with cancer and animal fat was not.