Posted on 09/23/2020 10:28:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
Cholesterol is a steroid lipid (fat) found in the blood of all animals and is necessary for proper functioning of our cell membranes and production of hormones. While there can be negative health effects associated with low cholesterol, cholesterol deficiency is rare. Our bodies already manufacture all the cholesterol we need, so it is not necessary to consume more.
Excessive consumption of cholesterol may increase the risk of heart disease and stroke, especially in certain groups which are sensitive to dietary cholesterol. (2)
Experiment with different diets, and use a Cholesterol Test Kit, so you can monitor your cholesterol levels at home and see which diet lowers your cholesterol.
High cholesterol foods include fast foods, liver, fatty meats, canned shrimp, desserts, eggs, whipped cream, bacon, cheese, and butter. The current daily value (DV) for cholesterol is 300mg.
Below is a list of high cholesterol foods, to lower your cholesterol, read the article on cholesterol lowering foods.
High Risk Groups for High Blood Cholesterol:
Individuals with a family history of high cholesterol - Regulation of cholesterol blood levels is hereditary and it is advisable to find out if relatives have high cholesterol levels.
Older Adults - Cholesterol levels rise with age, particularly in post-menopausal women.
Over-weight Individuals - Being over-weight increases risk of heart disease and tends to correlate with high cholesterol levels.
People with Low Physical Activity Levels - Excersise is an effective way to lower bad cholesterol levels (LDLs) and raise good cholesterol levels (HDLs). People who are not physically active are at risk for high cholesterol levels.
Individuals with high blood pressure - High blood pressure in combination with high cholesterol levels greatly increases the risk of heart disease and heart attacks.
Smokers - Individuals who smoke cigarettes have a higher risk of heart disease and should avoid high cholesterol foods.
“It’s the carbs that kill”
I think that is why DoodleBob has the tools out there, in case any carbs show up.
We get super high Omega-3 eggs from Kroger or Meijer.
Each egg has over 660 mg of Omega-3.
They are a special egg produced by Rose Acre Farms called the “Christopher Egg.” It uses a special vegetarian feed created from a European recipe.
In most people, dietary cholesterol is irrelevant.
.. From your sticky, smelly hands!......................Right?...........
See post #18.
me too! yum
That probably causes cholesterol, too...............
Of course the meaningful question wouldn't be what are the plaques made of, but why are they there?
6 of the 10 are on my regular diet. My cholesterol is fine at 60+ years. Avoid simple carbs, move, and MOST people can eat any fat they want!
Oh...and total cholesterol above 60 years of age isn’t associated with increased risk of death.
Problem in all of this is that for some people the body makes way too much cholesterol. Them’s the folks who often have the big one in their 40s and 50s.
Heart attacks in the 70s often times aren’t as bad because people can develop collateral circulation that maintain circulation past the blockage. The younger patients get hit hard because they haven’t had the time to develop these vessels.
Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we all die
“Egg consumption does not raise cholesterol by itself. Old info. I do not work for the Egg Council.”
That was so debunked, that even the FDA (or whoever does diet recommendations in DC) actually REMOVED their references to limiting the amount of eggs.
Our ‘experts’ had made an ASSUMPTION about eggs and didn’t bother to see if it was right. They just ‘assumed’ that if a food, like eggs, had a lot of cholesterol - it magically went from your stomach to your blood. It was later proved to NOT be the case.
Same for fat. Dietary fat DOES NOT automatically become body fat. But carbs, yep, they do become body fat.
Oh, and any hard plaques were calcium, which comes from not having enough Vitamin K/K2.
Get enough of Vitamin K/K2, and your calcium plaques leave and go into your bones, where it is supposed to be.
Alan Jackson.....everything I love is killing me...cigarettes, Jack Daniels and caffeine
Epithelial dysfunction as an entry point from not having enough antioxidants to properly help maintain your epithelial layer.
“Somewhere over the rainbow,
“Way up tall,
“There’s a land where they’ve never
“Heard of cholesterol.
- Allan Sherman
Carbs also become triglycerides before becoming fat, unless they are first used by muscles as fuel.
I regularly eat 6 and 10 in one form or another.
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