"Dietary cholesterol" refers to the cholesterol found in the food that we eat.
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In the 1970s, the public was told to reduce
dietary cholesterol in order to reduce the risk of developing heart disease.
Overall, the study concluded that there was a significant link
between dietary cholesterol and the increase in strength: Those with the higher cholesterol intake had the most muscle strength gain.
Conventional medicine would have us
believe dietary cholesterol is bad, but we need to consume plenty of it in the form of healthy, natural fats.
For example, switching to low - fat, low - cholesterol diet will lower your HDL levels as the body reduces HDL production to compensate for
lower dietary cholesterol reaching the blood.
While it makes logical sense to
cut dietary cholesterol, most of the cholesterol found in the blood is made in the body.
Although eating too many whole eggs can increase your blood cholesterol, choosing egg whites is an excellent way for athletes to meet their protein needs while
keeping dietary cholesterol in check.
Sure, yolks contain cholesterol and fat, but current research finds that we shouldn't
fear dietary cholesterol and naturally occurring fatty acids like once believed.
Plant Protein — Plant protein is anti-inflammatory and completely free of
dietary cholesterol since it doesn't come from animals (our bodies make cholesterol for hormones on their own).
Even
though dietary cholesterol doesn't affect the LDL cholesterol blood levels it can be lowered by eating a diet rich in dietary fibre.
The thought is that eating foods that contain saturated fat and
dietary cholesterol lead to elevated blood cholesterol levels, which is bad for health.
And as you know already from my other articles, research in recent years has proven that natural saturated fat and
dietary cholesterol basically has NOTHING to do with heart disease at all.
When you eat something with a high amount
of dietary cholesterol like an egg, your body lowers its internal production of cholesterol to balance things out.
The relationship
between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol is nowhere as straight - forward as what we were told in the 80s and 90s.
Protein powders are commonly used as egg replacements in baked goods for convenience, to
reduce dietary cholesterol or when allergens are a concern.
(The new recommendation scraps the old limit, instead suggesting that people «eat as little
dietary cholesterol as possible.»)
β - sitosterol (beta - sitosterol), a phytosterol that competes
with dietary cholesterol for absorption and so may reduce blood cholesterol levels, is also unusually rich.
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