[djf]

Link to 9 part series about cholesterol and diet. Heavily referenced and footnoted.

Not exactly what the talking heads want you to read.

[muawiyah]

Health science has advanced far beyond that article. They even test you these days for HDL and LDL.

There was yet another report posted on FR last night that suggested lowering cholesterol is not the benefit to the heart everyone thought but the anti-cholesterol drugs are of great benefit in and of themselves even if cholesterol levels don't change.

One thing the statins do is cause cholesterol to precipitate out of the blood and cling to the walls of blood vessels thereby sealing any leaks.

BTW, some of us have naturally LOW cholesterol levels, and try as we might we can't improve the good cholesterol levels ~ I could eat nothing but walnuts and drink fishoil night and day and it wouldn't budge ~ that's because I've tried that and it didn't work.

[seastay]

microorganisms are less likely to eat food with goods made with shortening (partially hydrogenated fat) compare with natural vegetable oil giving vendors more shelf life, which has got to mean something, so I dont even pour melted shortening down my drain, (imagine the clog), much less my throat, just call be cautious with the brain of an amoeba, I dont care...

[butternut_squash_bisque]

We're all going to die from *something*, aren't we? By a matter of degrees, depending upon your DNA and background.

I'd rather go out at 61, after a full life of eating good (my choice) food and drink, than live to 74, eating grass and leaves. No, I don't recommend eating lard sandwiches or trans-fat milkshakes.

Be sensible, but screw the grass, leaves and organic pond water w/ lemon wedges.

These pseudo-medical, lib-dem "nanny staters", who think they know best for us, and that we should all follow their 'expert lead', should drop dead tomorrow, from anorexia, bulemia and AIDS.


Pass those BBQ Ribs, mashed potatoes and gravy, please!

[Lil'freeper]

Heavily referenced and footnoted.

And yet, no mention of Uffe Ravnskov?

[little jeremiah]

FYI. I'm going to read the other articles and see what they say.

[aimhigh]

Cholesterol and CHD For reasons still unknown, coronary heart disease suddenly took off during the 1920s throughout the industrialised world. By the 1940s it was becoming the major cause of premature death. And nobody knew why.

Central heating and advances in medicine reduced death by pneumonia (sp).

[supercat]

IIRC, according to Dr. Atkins' book, high density ("good") cholestrol that circulates in the blood slowly changes into low density ("bad") cholesterol. When the body digests fat, it gets turned into good cholesterol. When the body burns fat, both types of cholesterol get consumed.

Thus, if one is constantly taking in and burning fat, the bad cholesterol in the bloodstream will be constantly diluted with good cholesterol. If one is subsisting on a carbohydrate diet, even if one is not gaining weight, the cholesterol in one's blood will be replaced much more slowly and thus much more of it will have a chance to turn into bad cholesterol.

[TamiSpeaks]

Eat 40% more butter? I thought butter was bad for your cholesterol! It seems like everything goes in cycles. One decade doctors are reporting one thing, the next they are reporting the complete opposite.