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sweuder | 3 years ago

Dietary cholesterol has been repeatedly shown to have little to no effect on blood cholesterol or other cardiovascular disease. Ex: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024687/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9143438/

This article is shallow ad for a drug company.

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potbelly83|3 years ago

Yeah in a large subset of the population (I think between 50-60% if i'm not mistaken), but then what about the other 40% ? That's the thing with health nutrition, you can't really generalize very well.

eddof13|3 years ago

Was about to say- dietary cholesterol doesn't matter! Eat those eggs folks

mgh2|3 years ago

I am not sure about the literature, research is always changing.

Here is another take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14570396

Buttons840|3 years ago

Your "other take" is about dietary saturated fat and this article is talking about dietary cholesterol.

My take is that dietary cholesterol has little to no effect on blood cholesterol, however dietary saturated fat has a strong effect on blood cholesterol levels and health outcomes. Note that this take is consistent with the current article and the one you linked to.

gingerlime|3 years ago

Besides eggs which seem to have a positive effect, what else is good and what is bad for controlling blood cholesterol? I couldn’t work it out from the articles.

sam2426679|3 years ago

I discovered that I had high cholesterol about 9 months ago. My LDL was 191, when it should be 100 (or lower).

I met with a nutritionist at UCSF who boiled it down to a simple (although not necessarily easy) dietary rule, which is that I could only eat 8 or fewer grams of saturated fat per day. That's the only metric that I've been monitoring, and I've brought my LDL number down to 120 as of my most recent test.

This is all without medication. I will also note that I have been exercising more and lost 30 pounds.

p.s. An egg has ~1.5g saturated fat. So, in my case, I usually eat just egg whites because eating 2 whole eggs for breakfast would put me above the rough estimate of 2.7g per meal (3 meals per day).

GloriousKoji|3 years ago

Statins, fish oil, psyllium husk, and aerobic exercise are good for lowering blood serum cholesterol. An easy dietary change is eating more beans and oatmeal. Avoid foods high in saturated fats, which is generally meats and dairy.