[SamAdams76]

After more than 60 years on this planet living a mostly healthy, prescription free life, and happily ignoring doctors for the most part, I am convinced that the medical community has a vested interest in keeping us unhealthy and on their prescribed meds.

The cholesterol scare is an especially egregious Big Lie.

Avoiding dietary cholesterol is actually BAD for your health. In fact, in the absence of dietary cholesterol, your body will produce cholesterol on its own because your body NEEDS cholesterol to survive. And that cholesterol will not necessarily be the healthy kind.

One should get plenty of eggs, butter, cheeses, red meats and offal from meats (such as liver) into their diets and not worry at all about the cholesterol levels in those foods.

[ConservativeMind]

Our bodies, as I recall, need 1,000 - 1,500 mg of cholesterol a day, either from food or being self-made.

The only time food cholesterol shows up as higher blood cholesterol appears to be when you eat a lot of cholesterol in one meal. Our bodies need the cholesterol 24 hours a day, so it prefers a moderate trickle.