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You rightly point out that nutrition is rife with pseudoscience (and obsolete scientific paradigms), and that you can't trust anyone. Here are some sources to a

You rightly point out that nutrition is rife with pseudoscience (and obsolete scientific paradigms), and that you can't trust anyone. Here are some sources to add credibility to your claims. As one might expect, reality is more complex than your comment, as well as "cholesterol = bad": https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-and-cholesterol/cholesterol/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you... - The biggest influence on blood cholesterol level is the mix of fats and carbohydrates in your diet—not the amount of cholesterol you eat from food. - For most people, the amount of cholesterol eaten has only a modest impact on the amount of cholesterol circulating in the blood. For some people, though, blood cholesterol levels rise and fall very strongly in relation to the amount of cholesterol eaten. For these “responders,” avoiding cholesterol-rich foods can have a substantial effect on blood cholesterol levels. Unfortunately, at this point there is no way other than by trial and error to identify responders from non-responders to dietary cholesterol. https://www.cdc.gov/features/cholesterol-myths-facts/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/features/cholesterol-myths-facts/index.h... - Myth: Eating foods with a lot of cholesterol will not make my cholesterol levels go up. - Fact: It can be complicated. We know that foods with a lot of cholesterol usually also have a lot of saturated fat. Saturated fats can make your cholesterol numbers higher, so it’s best to choose foods that are lower in saturated fats. Foods made from animals, including red meat, butter, and cheese, have a lot of saturated fats.

BearOso 6y ago
Thanks for the reminder—-don’t accept what I said as fact, because we still don’t know. Your CDC link is a little behind the times, because it’s still claiming saturated fats are “the enemy.” I actually read one of the sources behind your first link just before I posted my first comment to check my facts, and in the parts not quoted by your article it says that responders usually absorb proportional levels of HDL to LDL, making their blood cholesterol similarly neutral to non-responders. I’m not going to tell someone who has heart disease to go eat a ton of eggs, but I will say that if you’re healthy you shouldn’t worry about it. Just don’t eat too much of anything.

BearOso 6y ago

Thanks for the reminder—-don’t accept what I said as fact, because we still don’t know. Your CDC link is a little behind the times, because it’s still claiming saturated fats are “the enemy.” I actually read one of the sources behind your first link just before I posted my first comment to check my facts, and in the parts not quoted by your article it says that responders usually absorb proportional levels of HDL to LDL, making their blood cholesterol similarly neutral to non-responders. I’m not going to tell someone who has heart disease to go eat a ton of eggs, but I will say that if you’re healthy you shouldn’t worry about it. Just don’t eat too much of anything.