I read a bunch of stuff nearly 20 years ago now that made me believe that dietary cholesterol had little if any significant effect on serum cholesterol levels. Turns out I’ve been right.
My tendency is to take all dietary conventional wisdom with a grain of salt (pun somewhat intended). I think that it will eventually turn out that all this worry about levels of serum cholesterol was probably misplaced, also.
That’s not to say I buy the claims of the alternative medicine/diet people, either. They tend to believe a lot of stuff without any really good reason.
I was never told that high cholesterol caused heart and artery disease.
I was told that heart and artery disease has a high correlation high cholesterol
For the record..... since I resumed eating eggs, butter and bacon my cholesterol has not risen but I’m still on the Statin and niacin
That’s not to say I buy the claims of the alternative medicine/diet people, either. They tend to believe a lot of stuff without any really good reason.
To me, the critical fact is that there was zero heart disease and almost no diabetes, prior to 1900. With that in mind, I eat foods that weren't available in 1900 only very rarely.