Submitted 3 days ago by uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club to youshouldknow@lemmy.world
I thought it was interesting how this little factoid was kept hidden from us. Lots of people like to complain about high cholesterol, but I bet most of them don’t realize that it’s only coming from the animals they’re choosing to eat.
I don’t think anyone was hiding that. I assumed it was pretty common knowledge since I was a kid.
Really? Just about everyone I come across is surprised when they find this out.
You might also be surprised to find that research says cholesterol is actually not a bad or dangerous thing. 👍👍
Few notes:
Factoid = Common misbelief often shared as a fact to the point that they had to tweak the meaning of the term because it became a factoid in itself.
There’s also no proven link between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. At least not that I know of.
Factoid = Common misbelief
I prefer this meaning, too, but it can also mean just an interesting little fact.
Stfu and eat this Lipitor, boomer
Daddy said it works!
Most Cholesterol is produced in your liver. Food is a contributor, but not just from animal products.
Food is highly overrated anyway. It’s highly unhealthy, expensive, carbon-wasting and is the main reason for obesity.
But I’m a hunger crazed food addiction, what can I do?
I hear ya. Trying to give it up myself, but it’s deceptively difficult.
I thought it was interesting how this little factoid was kept hidden from us.
My brother it sounds like you ran a million miles per hour away from science.
Here’s a paper that summarises the issue. Perhaps “animal products contain cholesterol” feels new to you but obvious to other people is a generational thing. From the 1960s onwards there was a big push to stop people eating butter, eggs and meat because they contained cholesterol, and high cholesterol in your blood was a bad thing in people.
But by the 1990s the evidence was piling up that there wasn’t a direct link between cholesterol in food and harmful cholesterol in your blood. In fact there are important ‘good’ cholesterol that reduce heart disease risks. And the recommendations to avoid cholesterol and fats in general have been responsible for lots of poor advice and health outcomes, as people replaced natural animal based fats like butter, not with healthy olive oil, but problematic processed fats like margarine and vegetable oil. Or ate low fat food that was high in sugar, which can raise harmful blood cholesterol.
I thought cholesterol was specifically only made in animals?
What are some plant sources?
I don’t think there are any. Plants have phytosterols which are structurally similar.
Anyway, doesn’t matter much. The cholesterol you eat isn’t what ends up in your arteries. You should still limit how much you eat because high cholesterol foods are often high in saturated fat. There’s a happy medium but too much puts you in greater risk of heart disease.
Demonizing dietary cholesterol went out of style in the 1990s.
Trying to recycle the warning is lame because then people fall into eating high carb diets which aren’t great either.
ccunning@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Dietary cholesterol ≠ blood cholesterol