Anyway, I found what
you said about cholesterol to be very true.
Ok, so this is an old thread, but... I was just about to
say this about cholesterol.
Dr. Lee's Commonsense Guide to a Healthy Heart More down - to - earth wisdom in this booklet from Dr. John Lee about how to take care of your heart, as well as what research really
says about cholesterol numbers and the truth about what makes your cholesterol go up.
Not exact matches
The first thing to look at is what science
says about low carb diets and
cholesterol.
Does the heavenly concoction have something to
say about lowering bad
cholesterol?
Health reasons are also driving interest, with three in 10 protein alternatives consumers
saying that they are watching their
cholesterol (30 %) and are worried
about eating too much saturated fat (29 %).
WASHINGTON — Warning that American schoolchildren need to learn
about cholesterol as well as computers, a national panel of nutritionists
said Wednesday that school lunchrooms must serve less fat and more fiber.
It is also
said to fight high
cholesterol and sugar excess.Colorful Agate is
said to release stress and tension to bring
about balance and harmony.
M. Dominique Ashen, Ph.D., C.R.N.P., a nurse practitioner in the Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease at Johns Hopkins and another study leader,
says that a traditional risk assessment for cardiovascular disease involves checking blood pressure,
cholesterol levels and weight; evaluating for diabetes; taking a family history; calculating the 10 - year risk of having a cardiovascular event; and asking
about lifestyle factors such as smoking, diet and exercise.
«We spend a lot of time thinking
about traditional risk factors for stroke such as high blood pressure,
cholesterol, diabetes and smoking — but our data underscore the possibility that everyday air pollution may also pose a significant stroke risk,»
said senior investigator Jeffrey S. Berger, MD, an assistant professor in NYU Langone Medical Center in the Department of Medicine, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology.
«In studying what causes NPC and how it progresses, we learn more
about normal
cholesterol metabolism,» Ory
said.
A new report by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, an independent group of 14 experts advising Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) which convenes every five years,
says that we should ease up on sugar and saturated fats, but we don't need to worry so much
about cholesterol anymore.
«Knowing your numbers when it comes to blood pressure,
cholesterol, and body mass index — and talking with your doctor
about how you can optimize those numbers — is still one of the most important things you can do,»
says Dr. Isaacson.
I saw «The Last Heart Attack» and I was wondering what you thought
about what Dr. Arthur Agatston
said in the show, as he's the inventor of the South Beach Diet, I'm wondering how credible his idea that the size of
cholesterol particles and your
cholesterol number doesn't matter.
Actually,
about 80 % of strokes are preventable by addressing major risk factors, namely weight, hypertension and high
cholesterol,
says Bradley White, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience and experimental therapeutics at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.
The reason why I
say that is I think
about people who have histamine intolerance (sensitivities to foods and chemicals, even like that), think
about people with
cholesterol issues.
It didn't take me long to realise that the same people, particularly at the Weston A. Price Foundation, were
saying equally «crazy» things
about a whole range of issues, with the
cholesterol and saturated fat controversy being the most famous.
And for a vegan bodybuilder who must unfortunatelly play tetris with the food sources that he choses in order to give to his body the right ammounts of aminos, restricting SPI and soy foods so much does not make his goal any easier.There are sometimes that you need a meal thats complete with aminos and soy provides that meal with the additional benefits of lacking the saturated fats trans
cholesterol and other endothelium inflammatory factors.I'm not
saying that someone should go all the way to 200gr of SPI everyday or consuming a kilo of soy everyday but some servings of soy now and then even every day or the use of SPI which helps in positive nitrogen balance does not put you in the cancer risk team, thats just OVERexaggeration.Exercise, exposure to sunlight, vegan diet or for those who can not something as close to vegan diet, fruits and vegetables which contains lots of antioxidants and phtochemicals, NO STRESS which is the global killer, healthy social relationships, keeping your cortisol and adrenaline levels down (except the necessary times), good sleep and melatonin function, clean air, no radiation, away from procceced foods and additives like msg etc and many more that i can not even remember is the key to longevity.As long as your immune system is functioning well and your natural killer cells TP53 gene and many other cancer inhibitors are good and well, no cancer will ever show his face to you.With that logic we shouldn't eat ANY ammount of protein and we should go straight to be breatharians living only with little water and sunlight exposure cause you like it or not the raise of IGF1 is inevitable i know that raise the IGF1 sky high MAYBE is not the best thing but we are not talking
about external hormones and things like this.Stabby raccoon also has a point.And even if you still worry
about the consumption of soy... http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21711174.
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).
Much has been
said about how
cholesterol is bad and how it needs to be constantly lowered.
«We need to worry more
about saturated fat and not so much
about dietary
cholesterol,»
says Miriam Nelson, Ph.D., a nutrition professor at Tufts University who is also a member of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
A lot of what we thought we knew
about cholesterol isn't true so you don't have to be afraid of
cholesterol — but that's all I'm going to
say about that controversial topic.
A: There have been many negative things
said about eggs over the years and their relationship to having high
cholesterol levels in the body, but recently the official position has changed and most dietary recommendations include eggs as part of a healthy diet.
That's why I made that stupidly long and comprehensive post with gazillions of citations and resources, I got sick of trying to convey how bad the idea is, and so whenever someone brainfarted at me
about cholesterol I just
said go here http://highsteaks.com/
cholesterol/ and get back to me if things are still unclear.
If you are a medical researcher serious
about your career you better not
say anything that will go against conventional wisdom of «
cholesterol is evil» otherwise your grants will be cut and you will never publish any thing ever again.
I wanted to put all of them in one place and
say don't worry
about cholesterol, don't worry
about animal protein, do not worry
about grains.
'' If blood sugar goes up and
cholesterol goes down, what does this
say about a person's overall health and expected longevity?
Some
say its a numbers game, the more LDL particles crashing the walls of the arteries... some
say the LDL is only a sign of vascular damage, but if my LDL goes down on a low fat diet, then that is bs, some
say that it may be a problem metabolizing LDL, intake / production is outpacing LDL receptor activity, some
say its not LDL but LDL that stays in the blood too long and oxidizes, some
say about 20 % carbs (I was less than 5 %) will produce just enough insulin to help metabolize
cholesterol, but the hard core low carb guys,
say the whole
cholesterol thing is a scam and
cholesterol under 500, without insulin resistance is nothing to worry
about.
I'm really curious
about this study done in University of Eastern Finland, which appears to
say «High -
cholesterol diet, eating eggs do not increase risk of heart attack, not even in persons genetically predisposed».
I was so concerned that I asked Mike Eades
about it on his blog and he
said that was a common occurrence due to the body releasing
cholesterol after the change in diet (at least that's the way I understood it.)
After researching the science of lipids,
cholesterol, heart disease, and nutrition for nearly eight decades, Dr. Fred Kummerow — now nearly 100 years old — has a thing or two to
say about the matter.
Dr Greger, what
about this group of «doctors» who are
saying that
cholesterol is NOT the problem, inflammation is.
I very confused because i saw at youtube a vegan person he
said the coconut oil increases the
cholesterol levels, clog the arteries and wondering
about fats.
Funny thing Walt I wrote to my mother's doctor
about the
cholesterol hypothesis being wrong with heaps of links to back me up to try and stop her prescribing statins but she
said exactly the same thing as your dietician!
I am sure that
cholesterol is the number one cause of heart problems and I try (best of my knowledge) to argue people to avoid
cholesterol in their diet, but then there is studies that people refer to as «Norwegian hunt 2 Study» https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303886/ that
says too low
cholesterol is killing us?!?!? What can you
say about this study?
I thought your comment
about whole milk was interesting my doctor told me to only use low fat or 2 %
said that my four year old had high
cholesterol.
If you want to read the good news
about eating almost all the eggs and bacon you want, here it is: a scientific advisory panel for Dietary Guidelines last year basically
said: «
Cholesterol is not considered a nutrient of concern for over consumption.»
If I ask if you ever been diagnosed with or treated for chest pain, high blood pressure, heart murmur, heart attack, high
cholesterol, stroke or other disorder of the heart or circulatory system and I don't specifically ask
about POTS, Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, you could sort of round it off and
say no to that questions.