Diet or statins or both?

The Lyon Diet Heart Study

The participants were randomly assigned to receive counseling about a Mediterranean-style diet (see end of article) or a standard post-heart attack diet. Those who went on the Mediterranean-style diet developed 72% less heart disease than those in the control group. There was also a 56% lower death rate and 61% less cancer than the people in the control group. Simply eating a Mediterranean-style diet is nearly three times more effective at preventing recurrent heart disease and death in post-heart attack patients than is taking a statin. Even more surprising, those on the Mediterranean-style diet did not have lower cholesterol than those eating the standard post-heart attack diet. So when your doctor tells you to get your cholesterol down…keep that in mind.

What!! Doesn't this blow a wee hole in the whole cholesterol theory??