American Thinker: Highly educated “experts” rule today’s advanced societies, but their advice on how the rest of us should live — often enforced by government coercion — is increasingly exposed as premature at best and mistaken, incomplete, ignorant, or fraudulent at worst.
Yet another bit of diet advice from “experts” is turning out to be an exploding cigar. High cholesterol, particularly LDL cholesterol, has been demonized for allegedly bringing on heart attack deaths. But an intriguing analysis of data published at Medium.com seems to show that total mortality risk is decreased by high cholesterol levels, even LDL cholesterol. As author P.D. Mangan writes:
[F]rom a public health standpoint, it seems a mistake to focus on changing something that lowers the risk of death from one cause only to raise that risk from another.
Here is one of the key charts showing that people with high cholesterol levels live longer than those with low levels. MORE HERE
Bwahahahaha.
I was just thinking last night that it was time to learn how to cook pork belly.
Gonna order some from my butcher.
Pretty soon there will be a RDA for lard… a tablespoon a day will keep the doctor away.
I have been using fats I render for many many years. It used to annoy my husband, but then my blood work panels came back as optimum, which I think means pretty good….for someone overweight like myself, the doctor wasn’t worried about heart disease. Render your fat: Lard, tallow, schmalz. All delicious and very worth the effort. Don’t waste your time worrying about grassfed vs. grainfed. You will save a lot of money not having to buy seed oils.
PJ, Pork belly + “Set it and Forget it” rotisserie = bliss You heard it here first.
If I don’t get off the internet I just might live forever. Got a couple jars of bacon fat in fridge at all times. Great for fried potatoes, hash browns and frying your eggs. Adds great flavor.
Well then pass the Crisco and a wooden spoon!
Come join me at http://WWW.BULLCRAP.COM
and work from home cleaning,repairing,aligning,
testing and detailing electronic junk you find in yard/estate sales and then sell on Ebay.My expert
hand labor brings about 27-35 cents an hour cause
people buy cheap shoddy junk from China that is made
by slaves making 15-23 cents an hour…
BTW= That stock pix of steak,,, wonderful
fat marbled steak,,,cooked med. rare uuuummmm…
Homer Simpson is hungry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofq-8ToY2fc
This video is compelling
it is a must see. It is high insulin that kills, not cholesterol.
I have been a cardiologist for 40 years. Researched this topic and found that cholesterol is not associated with any known disease state. Lowering your cholesterol does nothing. Statins are worthless.
The cause of heart attacks and blockages is inflammation. This is what is called metabolic inflammation. Numerous things make you go into this inflammatory state. Treatment now is exercise, weight loss and aspirin. Work is progressing on definitive treatment but is blocked by the statin people.
@David7134: I saw my doctor 2 days ago and he was thrilled that my cholesterol went down dramatically. He asked what diet I settled on. I told him the high fat lo-carb diet aka Dr. Atkins. I told him I did it my way – oh and I dropped 30 lbs. His face turned red – with embarrassment. He did agree that statins were worthless, but only after I showed him new studies from the New England Medical Journal. He’s going to love this new cholesterol study. I might live longer than him!
Fat, butter,meat…..repeat.
Nothing beats aged, 3 inch thick, marbled rib eye racks seared just right to the point you can cut them with sharpened wooden spoons.
Whose in our cutlery closets?
Where are the soup spoons?
What tine is it?
PS: Different Tim, put a couple spoonfuls of that bacon goodness in a big can of refried beans. It’s the dip that eats like a meal.
$15-an-hour Der Komissar ObamassarKare subcontractors. 🙄
I trust “doctors,” as far as I can KICK ’em. 😡
Go to http://www.vinnietortorich.com and get the free PDF on NO SUGAR, NO GRAINS.
For a healthy body we need to keep insulin from spiking, and regulating the 2 important hormones Leptin and Grelin.
Easy peasy !
The article seems to hint at some kind of causal relationship, but it offers nothing to support it.
FWIW, coconut lowered cholesterol more effectively than statins in my case (Statins just made me feel like I was going downhill rapidly with death waiting for me at the bottom). And it is a measurable decrease, not some placebo effect feel like it thing, my cholesterol levels are now considered very good.
YMMV.
Except, Anon if you watch the video I posted, you will have to conclude that lowering your cholesterol does NOTHING and the science is overwhelming.
If you ae going to keep your insulin in check, the ONLY thing you can eat safely is fat. Dr. Atkins was right and NOBODY believes him. Even the doctor on this thread is uninformed.
I’ve been reading about this quite a bit over the last three years – this is what I have come to believe is true. Maybe time will prove these experts I’ve come to trust to be correct. Or maybe wrong, too.
Among LDL particles size matters. Elevated levels of (small dense) sdLDL is not good. sdLDL is more prone to oxidation damage, (perhaps caused by cooking with crappy recommended oils, hold the soybean vegetable Crisco oils), and being insulin resistant tends to increase sdLDL count. Elevated sdLDL levels indicate increased risk of vascular disease.
The ratios of the types of cholesterol are the important measures:
First is triglycerides/HDL should be < 1.2, better is < 1.0
related is AIP (artherogenic index plasma) 2.4 is high risk of CVD. Can be calculated from TG/HDL ratio.
Second in importance. Total Cholesterol/HDL should be < 4.0.
Third, LDL/HDL should be < 3.5.
Related measure is ApoB/ApoA1. Which is actual count of LDL particles / HDL particles. vs LDL/HDL which is a measure of the quantity of cholesterol within the particles.
Some people are ApoE4 genetic types, and they tend to have elevated cholesterol levels. Their levels of cholesterol require special attention that does not apply to most people.
Lastly – the brain is about 2 ~ 3% of body weight, but contains 20 ~ 25% of the cholesterol in the body. And the brain makes its own cholesterol because it can not be absorbed from the blood. Increased levels of cholesterol in the brain in later years appears to be associated with better brain health. Additionally if you don't eat enough cholesterol in your diet, the body makes more because its needed for good health. No cholesterol, no life.
As my doc explained it, your good cholesterol needs to be high, and the bad type low. He told me before station’s, he was always getting calls about patients having heart attack in their 40s and 50s. He said the change since statins is dramatically lower.
I used to keep up with that type of science Blink. Turns out, except for the people with that ApolE4 issue, the only way to get your numbers up is to do the no carb high fat diet. And yes that means no sugar, no pasta, no bread, no rice and I hate to say it not much alcohol.
And you are certainly right, if you don’t have cholesterol, you will DIE. It’s ludicrous to think that you need to lower it. If you want decent particle size, it’s diet and it’s NOT by lowering your fat intake but by raising it because fat is the only thing left if you cut out the other stuff
Sow half fat eat and be merry
Ancient, Sirius, Canine Dog Secrets
Anon your doctor is wrong. There are some recent studies with thousands of participants that show that if you haven’t had a cardiac event, then a statin has zero effect They help a little if you did have one. That is likely because if you have damage to your arteries, then the cholesterol will stick to those points and statins help alleviate that but if you want to keep your arteries from having damage, then it’s no sugar that keeps them undamaged and free from cholesterol buildup at those points, not statins.
I am insulin dependent type 1 diabetic. My bad cholesterol is high, but my good cholesterol is high too.
My Endo said that my good cholesterol being high pulls up my bad one. (yeah, I dunno how that works),
I read a long time ago that insulin can cause heart issues, memory problems and annoy the liver.
Well, I’ve been on insulin for 25 years and my liver is annoyed.
I don’t eat a lot of meat (chicken, if I do), hardly eat dairy.
I just realized I forgot to take my statin pill the past 2 nights. lol.
You certainly have to have insulin to stay alive. I think that that video I linked to was talking about spikes in insulin what temporarily kills the protective lining of your arteries that then allows cholesterol to stick to the lining and build up and or damages them. If your insulin spike goes away, within 24 hours, the protective lining returns
You’ve all heard of the apple a day thing? Completely true.
The other daily must is ONE egg.
YoT’s mom had one eggie weggie, every day of her adult life and lived to the age of NINETY FOUR.
Being Old Irish helped…
Eggs have been cherished throughout history and are a symbol of fertility.