The fear of cholesterol has killed millions of people.  It underpins all of the most destructive eating habits:  avoiding fat, eating seed oils instead of saturated fat, and centering diets around carbohydrates. So what's the truth about cholesterol?

Stoicism was made for times like these. In fact, Marcus Aurelius wrote Meditations, his seminal work, during the Antonine plague. Over the last 100 years the world has been zombified. Coronavirus is a wake up call. And like an early morning alarm, most people just want to go back to...