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Hyper-responders. (if anyone more knowledgeable can correct me, by all means do so, because I don't even know if this is true) Supposedly, 1/3 of the populati
by brandonmenc 11y ago
Hyper-responders.
(if anyone more knowledgeable can correct me, by all means do so, because I don't even know if this is true)
Supposedly, 1/3 of the population are hyper-responsive to dietary cholesterol - as in, consuming it raises their blood cholesterol. The other 2/3 can eat a high animal fat diet and see little to no change in blood cholesterol.
If true, those numbers are probably enough to clinically prove that a high fat diet is, in general, bad, while simultaneously giving millions of people the ability to go keto and say, "see, it's healthy, doctors don't know what they're talking about!"
The problem is that most people don't know if they're hyper-responders so promoting a high fat diet as healthy for everyone is irresponsible.
I'm just talking about cholesterol here. Avoiding red meat and eating plant fiber seem to provide benefits besides just lowering cholesterol.