“Look at all the people who lived into their 80s and 90s. They didn’t eat low fat or little or no meat.”
Mom lived to 99-3/4. She ate like a farmer. Meat, bread, potatoes, corn, desserts. After her last blood test she was told she had the cholesterol of a 20-year-old.
My grandmother was a Midwestern farm woman for most of her life, though she moved into town after her second husband died when she was 82, and lived alone after that. She had really high cholesterol and had a couple of heart attacks in her 80s, then finally had the big one while she was shoveling snow, about six weeks before her hundredth birthday.