Back in a college physiology class (15 years ago or so), our professor talked at length about cholesterol and it’s interaction in the diet and body, etc. The topic of cholesterol in the diet came up and was discussed at length. Your body will make cholesterol (it’s a hormone) and dispose of cholesterol at its leisure. Your genes have far more to do with the equation than your diet ever did, or could. Overall diet and health (and moreso, genetics) are more meaningful than whether you ate something fried in lard or peanut oil (there is no significant cholesterol in anything that is not from animals anyway, btw).
And don’t even get me started on the “Low fat” garbage. What a crock!
yep! agree!
My Grandma is 98 years old. Loves hotdogs! Yes HOTDOGS, she would eat them exclusively given the chance.
She cooked fried foods too.
My other Grandma was 94 years old and was healthy until she broke her hip. She was another fried foods person. fried chicken, fried porkchops, hamburgers, etc.
Oh and... they were overweight as well.
<And don’t even get me started on the “Low fat” garbage. What a crock!
After reading Gary Taubes’ books, I have to agree with you. Unfortunately, it is one of the terrible myths foisted on diabetics, and the result? If you eat low fat, you end up eating a lot of carbs so you can get enough calories, etc. to function. But the carbs raise your sugar levels (I’m just talking about diabetics here, before people get twitchy). I’d have to take a ton of insulin to cover my vegan meals, even though I was told that eating vegan would help my diabetes. I ate potatoes and tons of beans and rice (which I love, but which don’t love me) hoping for blood sugar control that I never achieved.
Well, after 3 years vegan, I’m back to eating meat. My blood sugars are stabilizing. I’m using butter and bacon fat. I’m eating bacon. I’m not worrying about cholesterol, because you’re right, we create our own cholesterol. The artificially low levels that some doctors want you to have are a direct result of the influence of statin manufacturers who want to have you on a statin for the rest.of.your.life.
Nope. Back to regular food, but no pasta, bread, etc. and hello to normalizing blood sugars. I’m seeing numbers that I hadn’t seen in years of vegan eating.
All that said, I don’t think we need to go crazy with the fried food.
One of the big reasons your body makes cholesterol is to take advantage of it's waxy texture to line the inner surface of your arteries in order to prevent water loss from your bloodstream when you are dehydrated. That way the blood volume is kept intact, though your blood pressure will rise.
However, if you stop being dehydrated because you regularly take in enough water each day, your body will then digest the cholesterol and clear your arteries automatically, and drop your blood pressure along with it. Even just drinking a couple of big glasses of water and then re-measuring your blood pressure will show it dropped significantly in a half-hour.
Dehydration is the big deal - cholesteral is just the emergency patch-up response that is supposed to be temporary.
Get "Your Body's Many Cries for Water" by Dr. Batmanghelidj and prepare to be amazed.