The problem as I see it is that the connection between heart disease and cholesterol was always based on a mere hunch. . . and no studies anywhere have ever made the connection beyond that original hunch. Medical science has built a house of card around that hunch which has resulted in billions of dollars of profits in big pharma.
There is certainly no connection between dietary cholesterol intake and blood serum cholesterol or dietary fat intake. We make our OWN cholesterol and our own fat, these are steps in the Krebs cycle in which carbohydrates, including sugar, are converted to glycogen and excess is later converted to fat for storage. Cholesterol is the transport mechanism, and is also one of the primary building blocks of our brain structure.
And forty or more years of flawed dietary advice.
My endochrineologist told me the same thing. He said that too many carbs was the true culpret in elevated cholesterol.