“Bookmark about cholesterol discussion with hubby for later. Thank-you.”
Don’t just take my word for it, do some googling of your own. Also, there are tons of books on this subject. The bottom line is that the cholesterol hypothesis was a hoax all along, on the order of the global warming hoax, except the cholesterol hoax directly killed millions of people.
Here’s one little fun video I just ran across:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4
BTW, the thing that’s REALLY bad is the synthetic, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. That was the main stuff that’s been killing people. (That and fructose and refined grains). Mary Eng, from the University of Maryland in the early ‘70s started trying to raise the alarm about partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which was being erroneously sold as live-saving, when in fact it is life-destroying. I figured that out myself in the early ‘70s when I noticed flies and cockroaches wouldn’t even look at margarine left out on the counter as obviously they didn’t consider it food.
Really knowledgeable docs now believe, based on research, that PUFAs (polyunsaturated fatty acids), the OTHER bad thing we were told was good for us, are indeed bad as they are highly prone to oxidation in the body, producing destructive free-radicals.
Turns out saturated fats and mono-saturated are the healthy ones. In fact, despite all the propaganda, one would starve to death if one ate no saturated fat, and cholesterol is the mother chemical for all the steroid hormones and it is vial for operation of the brain.
Here’s a link on PUFA content:
http://gratefultable.com/heat-bad-for-pufas-how-to-cook-healthy-oils/
What if you are a regular exerciser, eat balanced meals, hardly have processed foods in your diet, have a trim body (and look twenty years younger than people think), never seriously sick,but your cholesterol level is verging?
I don’t like the jaundiced eye from the ( revolving) nurse attendant at my yearly exam. What do the numbers mean ( and I don’t know mine) and what if they threaten meds?
I will look at your links later. Thank-you for your detailed response, Catnip.