I thought it was interesting how this little factoid was kept hidden from us. Lots of people like to complain about high cholesterol, but I bet most of them don’t realize that it’s only coming from the animals they’re choosing to eat.
Dietary cholesterol ≠ blood cholesterol
Here’s a paper that summarises the issue. Perhaps “animal products contain cholesterol” feels new to you but obvious to other people is a generational thing. From the 1960s onwards there was a big push to stop people eating butter, eggs and meat because they contained cholesterol, and high cholesterol in your blood was a bad thing in people.
But by the 1990s the evidence was piling up that there wasn’t a direct link between cholesterol in food and harmful cholesterol in your blood. In fact there are important ‘good’ cholesterol that reduce heart disease risks. And the recommendations to avoid cholesterol and fats in general have been responsible for lots of poor advice and health outcomes, as people replaced natural animal based fats like butter, not with healthy olive oil, but problematic processed fats like margarine and vegetable oil. Or ate low fat food that was high in sugar, which can raise harmful blood cholesterol.
Banned from community? Post score in the negative? What are the mods trying to cover up here?!
If you read the rest of the comments: nothing. OP’s statements are wildly incorrect and data on cholesterol has been pretty well known for over 25 years. It’s not only a “gotya” type post, it fails to “get” anyone.
You know this will only make people want to dig deeper, right? Whoever is paying you off to pretend like nothing is going on should’ve really told you to use an alt or something.
I don’t think anyone was hiding that. I assumed it was pretty common knowledge since I was a kid.
Really? Just about everyone I come across is surprised when they find this out.
Most Cholesterol is produced in your liver. Food is a contributor, but not just from animal products.
Food is highly overrated anyway. It’s highly unhealthy, expensive, carbon-wasting and is the main reason for obesity.
But I’m a hunger crazed food addiction, what can I do?
