They brainwashed you and convinced you that fat is bad. Your grandfather, your great-grandfather ate pork in a good way. They fried the lard in a good way, and even then they were much healthier than you, even eating a lot of fat.
And why? Because all cell membranes are made of fat. Our brain is made of fat. If you take the fat out of your life you have a stroke and become cognitively impaired. There is a disease in the world today called lipid deficiency. Cardiologists scare people that they can not eat fat because if they eat fat, cholesterol will rise. But the truth is that cholesterol is not made from fat, cholesterol is made from carbohydrate. Cholesterol is not a fat, it's an alcohol. If your cholesterol is high, it is probably because you are eating a lot of sugar. If you lower your intake of sugar, it will also lower your cholesterol.
And many times your cholesterol is high because you have a thyroid problem, or hypothyroidism. In fact, in the past, high cholesterol levels were used as an indication of a possible thyroid problem. It was the "poor test" to know if thyroid problem existed. So if you go to your cardiologist and he analyzes your cholesterol and passes you a statin without seeing if you have thyroid problem, in fact it did not solve your problem. Imagine you have a fireworks factory and you have a smoke detection alarm. Then the alarm rings and you cut his wire so he stops ringing. It is the same thing to want to just lower the cholesterol without knowing why it is high, the root cause of it.
Eating nonfat food is like eating styrofoam, no one can take it. Then you end up putting sugar to improve the flavor. That is, diets low in fats make you unconsciously ingest more carbohydrates; And in eating more carbohydrates you develop a metabolic syndrome. You take beer belly and you start having problems like diabetes.
So what are the real causes of high colesterol?
overeating;
eating too much processed foods;
eating too much sugar;
eating too much bad fats like trans/saturated fats;
eating too little fiber;
eating too much omega 6 fatty acids in proportion to omega 3;
drinking too much alcohol.
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Yes @discernente, I totally agree with you about these article.....
Fat and cholesterol doesn't clog arteries. The plaque that is found in arteries comes from inflammation, which is caused from eating sugar and grains. I have been on a no sugar no grains high fat, low carbohydrate diet since December and I've lost 90lbs and my blood work shows better ratios of HDL to LDL. Great article, and upvoted!
Thank you for you clarifications, and I'm pleased you liked my post.
You're welcome.
So do you think it's possible the sugar was messing up your body because your stores of niacin were low? That you didn't eat enough sulfur rich foods? That you were lacking in magnesium and zinc? That you weren't intaking enough omega-3 fats? That if you corrected those few things that sugar wouldn't cause issues?
Good post. Cholersterol is the "bandaid" that covers rifts in bloodvessels caused by high insuline or lack of vitamin K2 (which is basically found in animalistic fat) High Insuline is caused by our refined sugar diets and create inflammatory arteries.
Also, a lot of food is calcium added,and calcium adds on top of the cholesterol to make "plaque" in the arteries.
Fat and cholesterol is just helping the rifts/inflammation to heal. The real problem is WHY all the cholesterol has to do that job. And the answer is a lot of carbohydrates (especially refined sugar and short chained saccarides), too much calcium and/or too little magnesium. Also too little vitamin K2.
https://steemit.com/vegan/@venomnymous/eating-cholesterol-doesn-t-raise-cholesterol-debunked
Low Carb Diets Increase All Cause Mortality
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3555979/pdf/pone.0055030.pdf
My cholesterol level used to be slightly low, and I would eat a full pound of bacon on heavy lifting days, and did this every week. Cooked in olive oil. Cholesterol and blood pressure issues didn't start until after severely injured, so I could lift as heavy, as long during workouts, do the regular work I used to do, and changed my diet, had kids, got less active. Imagine that.