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Cholesterol is a little high for a young woman, HDL looks good, trigs are high and those are most affected by immediate diet changes (including binge drinking).  Your cholesterol can go up and down slowly over time mostly due to diet.  True familial hypercholesterolemia is fairly rare and very serious.  Most of people's high numbers are diet related and lack of exercise, we prefer to take a pill to fix everything.

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Cholesterol is a little high for a young woman, HDL looks good, trigs are high and those are most affected by immediate diet changes (including binge drinking).  Your cholesterol can go up and down slowly over time mostly due to diet.  True familial hypercholesterolemia is fairly rare and very serious.  Most of people's high numbers are diet related and lack of exercise, we prefer to take a pill to fix everything.

I seriously doubt we're looking at familial hypercholesterolemia with a total of 191.

Everytime I've heard of that condition, it's been TC of 300+

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Cholesterol is a little high for a young woman, HDL looks good, trigs are high and those are most affected by immediate diet changes (including binge drinking).  Your cholesterol can go up and down slowly over time mostly due to diet.  True familial hypercholesterolemia is fairly rare and very serious.  Most of people's high numbers are diet related and lack of exercise, we prefer to take a pill to fix everything.

 

You're not a doctor but you play one on TV?

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That is just a bunch of dork MD's saying what some dork MD first said without any real evidence a long-ass time ago.  "Oh, don't swim within a half-hour of eating, that causes cramps and you'll die.  Oh yeah, don't eat cheese and butter or you will die from cholesterol, too.  Really, though, don't swim within a half-hour of eating butter or cheese, you will get cholesterol cramps and your whole family will die".

 

I am waiting on the credible studies to pop up.

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New study puts final nail in the “saturated fat causes heart disease” coffin

by CHRIS KRESSER 181 comments

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For more than five decades we’ve been brainwashed to believe that saturated fat causes heart disease. It’s such a deeply ingrained belief that few people even question it. It’s just part of our culture now.

Almost every day I read or hear about someone proudly that they have a “healthy” diet because they don’t eat butter, cheese or red meat or any other foods high in saturated fat (nevermind that red meat isn’t particularly high in saturated fat, but that’s a subject for another post). Or I might overhear someone at the grocery store saying how much they prefer whole fat yogurt to the low-fat version, but they eat the low-fat stuff anyways because they want to make the “healthy” choice.

What most people don’t realize is that it took many years to convince people that eating traditional, animal fats like butter and cheese is bad for you, while eating highly-processed, industrial vegetable oils like corn and soybean oil is good for you. This simply defied common sense for most people. But the relentless, widespread campaign to discredit saturated fat and promote industrial oils was eventually successful.

What if I told you that there’s no evidence to support the idea that saturated fat consumption causes heart disease? What if I told you that the 50+ years of cultural brainwashing we have all been subject to was based on small, poorly designed studies? And what if I told you that a review of large, well-designed studies published in reputable medical journals showed that there is no association between saturated fat and heart disease?

Well, that’s what I’m telling you. We’ve beed duped. Lied to. And we’ve suffered greatly as a result. Not only have we suffered from being encouraged to eat packaged and processed foods made with cheap, tasteless vegetable oils and refined carbohydrates (low-fat cuisine), but these very foods we were told would protect us from heart disease actually promote it!

The recent review I’m talking about is a meta-analysis published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It pooled together data from 21 unique studies that included almost 350,000 people, about 11,000 of whom developed cardiovascular disease (CVD), tracked for an average of 14 years, and concluded that there is no relationship between the intake of saturated fat and the incidence of heart disease or stroke.

Let me put that in layperson’s terms for you:

Eating saturated fat doesn’t cause heart disease.

There. That’s it. That’s really all you need to know. But if you’d like to read more about it, John Briffa and Chris Masterjohn have written articles about it here andhere.

I wonder how long it will take for this information to trickle down into the mainstream culture? Unfortunately it’s not going to happen overnight. Paradigm shifts don’t work that way. But I’ve seen some positive signs, and I do believe the tide is turning. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another 50 years.

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New study puts final nail in the “saturated fat causes heart disease” coffin

by CHRIS KRESSER 181 comments

coffin.jpg

For more than five decades we’ve been brainwashed to believe that saturated fat causes heart disease. It’s such a deeply ingrained belief that few people even question it. It’s just part of our culture now.

Almost every day I read or hear about someone proudly that they have a “healthy” diet because they don’t eat butter, cheese or red meat or any other foods high in saturated fat (nevermind that red meat isn’t particularly high in saturated fat, but that’s a subject for another post). Or I might overhear someone at the grocery store saying how much they prefer whole fat yogurt to the low-fat version, but they eat the low-fat stuff anyways because they want to make the “healthy” choice.

What most people don’t realize is that it took many years to convince people that eating traditional, animal fats like butter and cheese is bad for you, while eating highly-processed, industrial vegetable oils like corn and soybean oil is good for you. This simply defied common sense for most people. But the relentless, widespread campaign to discredit saturated fat and promote industrial oils was eventually successful.

What if I told you that there’s no evidence to support the idea that saturated fat consumption causes heart disease? What if I told you that the 50+ years of cultural brainwashing we have all been subject to was based on small, poorly designed studies? And what if I told you that a review of large, well-designed studies published in reputable medical journals showed that there is no association between saturated fat and heart disease?

Well, that’s what I’m telling you. We’ve beed duped. Lied to. And we’ve suffered greatly as a result. Not only have we suffered from being encouraged to eat packaged and processed foods made with cheap, tasteless vegetable oils and refined carbohydrates (low-fat cuisine), but these very foods we were told would protect us from heart disease actually promote it!

The recent review I’m talking about is a meta-analysis published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. It pooled together data from 21 unique studies that included almost 350,000 people, about 11,000 of whom developed cardiovascular disease (CVD), tracked for an average of 14 years, and concluded that there is no relationship between the intake of saturated fat and the incidence of heart disease or stroke.

Let me put that in layperson’s terms for you:

Eating saturated fat doesn’t cause heart disease.

There. That’s it. That’s really all you need to know. But if you’d like to read more about it, John Briffa and Chris Masterjohn have written articles about it here andhere.

I wonder how long it will take for this information to trickle down into the mainstream culture? Unfortunately it’s not going to happen overnight. Paradigm shifts don’t work that way. But I’ve seen some positive signs, and I do believe the tide is turning. Let’s hope it doesn’t take another 50 years.

 

move that goal post will ya? 

First you were talking Cholesterol level, now you're talking CVD.....which one do you wish to discuss?

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Chopped Liver Baroudeur

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Well, why do we care about cholesterol, then?  Isn't one supposed to lead to another, supposedly?

The cholesterol hypothesis is pretty much bunk, and has been shown that repeatedly.....except in cases of extremely high cholesterol such as is found in familial hypercholestrolemia...... 

There is plenty of mounting evidence that silent inflammation is one of the major causes in CVD.  This silent inflammation also results in elevated cholesterol levels as the body thinks it needs to heal itself.   The medical community is coming around on this issue, though it's somewhat like turning a large ship around...it doesn't happen in the blink of an eye.

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