One little known
fact about cholesterol is that the average person has about a half of pound of cholesterol in their body.
The authors go on to highlight a number of
facts about cholesterol and cardiovascular health.
Not exact matches
In
fact, if you're in any of the categories just mentioned (insulin resistant, diabetic, or have high blood pressure or high
cholesterol), you really need to be particularly careful
about limiting your fructose from fruit to 15 grams per day or less.
17:15 Clarification of lactose vs. lactase from Episode 2 18:00 Fats: definition,
facts and benefits 20:45 Types of fats 22:45 All
about cholesterol 26:00 Saturated vs. mono and poly unsaturated fats 30:45 Essential and non-essential fatty acids 40:05 Inflammation and autoimmune disease 42:40 Cooking guidelines: what to buy, what to look for in the store, other resources for buying fat and how to store them.
I've beaten this issue into the ground, but I'll say it again... If there's one
fact you must understand
about nutrition, it's that saturated fat and dietary
cholesterol are essential parts of the natural human diet (and have been for thousands of years) and are not unhealthy for us depending on the source of the food (organic, etc).
One more
fact about saturated fat and
cholesterol: it doesn't make your blood sugar rise AT ALL.
What you don't hear
about is the
fact that the more
cholesterol and saturated fat people ate, the lower their
cholesterol levels.
In
fact, the diet should be approximately 70 % of calories from unadulturated fats like low carb nuts (pecans and macadamias are great, almonds ok and peanuts and cashews are considered higher carb on the nut scale), avocado, grass fed butter, coconut oil, olive oil; and the remainng 15/15 for protein and non-starchy vegetable carbs, especially nutrient dense leafy greens It is carbohydrates or high protein leading to gluconeogenesis in the diet that make concurrent consumption of fats a cardiovascular risk, but in a properly carb - restricted and moderate protein diet, and in the absence of systemic inflammation (hsCRP, ESR), one should not worry
about increases in
cholesterol, but focus on the size of the
cholesterol particles (bigger is better) Dr. Peter Attia explains this complex topic well.
Nutrition
Facts: Serving Size 1oz (
about 10 chips) Servings per container 2 Calories 110 Calories from fat 0 Total Fat 0g (0 %) Saturated Fat 0g (0 %)
Cholesterol 0 mg (0 %) Sodium 210 mg (9 %) Total Carbohydrates 19g (6 %) Dietary Fiber 6g (24 %) Sugars 1g Protein 6g Vitamin A 2 % Vitamin C 0 % Calcium 2 % Iron 6 % * Percent Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
What's more, the
facts about fat have changed quite a lot in recent years, as numerous studies have disproved the connection between saturated fat,
cholesterol, and heart disease.
If you're concerned
about saturated fats and
cholesterol from animal products, check out this analysis by Denise Minger, The China Study:
Fact or Fallacy.
This MD in Australia talks
about cholesterol and the
fact that the way it is tested today is incomplete and does not tell the whole story when you just look at A1c, LDL, HDL, and Triglycerides, this diet raises your
cholesterol but there is a small dense LDL that is not accepted by the liver for servicing but rejected and ends up in your arteries as plaque... and this is what needs to be included in a Lipid panel because this diet pre-diet shows a lipid panel that is not to bad but when you look at the SDLDL it is at 20 which is very high, and when on this diet for 6 or more weeks your lipid panel is higher but the SDLDL is 0 Zero... so your doctor flips out and yells at you but in
fact you are much less prone to heart failure...