My neighbor has diabetes and eats a high carb diet with cereal for breakfast every morning (cheerios) and potatoes at night for supper, which he does not want to give up. His sugar is going through the roof. I told him to eat eggs and cheese in the morning with butter. He is afraid his cholesterol is going to be high if he does. I told him I heard that has been debunked. (Dr. Oz. and others). As for me, if I eat high carb meals I get acid reflux at night. If I eat low carb meals it disappears asap! I have also read that eating butter with a potato buffers the carbs being processed too fast and your insulin rises more slowly.
What you *eat* contributes at most a mere 15-20% of the cholesterol in your system.
Your liver will cheerfully crank more out to make up for the ‘deficit”.
[that is how statins work....but “turning off” your liver’s natural functions, to some extent]
Homocysteine levels, C-reactive protein, LDL and LP(a) levels are much more important yet most cardio docs will sniff at you if you ask to have those levels measured.
ALL cardiac problems are but a symptom of a larger, holistic problem...usually systemic inflammation.
The problem is tracking down *what* is causing that inflammation.
The “cause” can be as simple and “harmless” a thing as dental infections or gingivitis.
In one study, 80+% of heart attack/CABG patients were found to have chlamydiae pneumonia antibodies present.
One little germ that never “made them sick” set up a silent whole-body inflammation...and wrecked their hearts.
Seriously.
IMO, if you eat food as God created it, you’ll do well.
Look at any box or can on the shelf.
The ingredients lists are a mile long.
I think a can of kidney beans should say “Ingredients: Kidney beans. Water”....but it sure doesn’t.
There’s a *list* on that can.
Your neighbor is digging his grave with his own spoon.
I hope he wises up soon.