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The author is missing an important point: dietary sources of cholesterol are from animal byproducts only. > Cholesterol comes from two sources. Your liver make
by stakodiak 8y ago
The author is missing an important point: dietary sources of cholesterol are from animal byproducts only.
> Cholesterol comes from two sources. Your liver makes all the cholesterol you need. The remainder of the cholesterol in your body comes from foods derived from animals. For example, meat, poultry and full-fat dairy products all contain cholesterol, called dietary cholesterol.
> Those same foods are high in saturated and trans fats.
from the American Heart Association:
https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/cholesterol/about-cholesterol https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/cholesterol/about-cho...
- tomp 8y ago> trans fats. I’m no expert but this is the first time I hear about this. I thought trans fats are mainly found in industrially processed (mostly vegetable) fats! Ah, according to Wikipedia: > Animal-based fats were once the only trans fats consumed, but by far the largest amount of trans fat consumed today is created by the processed food industry as a side effect of partially hydrogenating unsaturated plant fats (generally vegetable oils). These partially hydrogenated fats have displaced natural solid fats and liquid oils in many areas, the most notable ones being in the fast food, snack food, fried food, and baked goods industries. So eating no fast food, no margarine and also no animals might even further reduce consumption of trans fats.