| > For starters, saturated fat increases cholesterol and that is almost exclusively in animal products. You conveniently fail to mention that it increases HDL and LDL in proportion, when a common marker for heart disease is the LDL/HDL ratio. [1] > Animal products are basically the only products to contain dietary cholesterol. So there you have at least a strong correlation. No, that's a non-sequitor. It would have been a correlation if a higher LDL/HDL ratio was contributed to dietary cholesterol, which it isn't. [2] From your link: > High-density lipoprotein (HDL) was consistently increased in most studies, with HDL2 increasing more than HDL3 after cholesterol consumption (42,43). Interestingly, the increase in serum HDL cholesterol re- sulting from cholesterol feeding appears to be greater when the background diet is high in polyunsaturated fatty acids (29). ..... > These subtle changes in lipoprotein composition and concentration-apart from changes in serum total or LDL cholesterol concentrations may help explain recent epidemiologic findings that implicate dietary cholesterol as an independent risk factor for coronary disease after fasting serum total cholesterol and other known cardiovascular risk factors have been controlled for (67, 68). However, because changes in LDL cholesterol accounted for most of the changes in total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol will be the focus ofthe remaining discussion. Even the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee doesn't state that cholesterol over consumption is of no concern. [3] While dietary carbohydrates don't raise cholesterol, they do lower HDL, thus raising the LDL/HDL ratio. [4] If you'd like, I'll admit that eating animal fats can increase LDL, but it's not the whole picture. Some bonus sources for low carb (high fat) diets improving cardiovascular health: [5] [6] But as I've read a lot of them, there's also opposing studies, like: [7] My point is: approach this from an attempt to find truth, not from trying to prove that animal fat is bad, because it really shines through which one it is. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22037012 [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24075505 [3] https://health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2015-BINDER/meeting7/do... [4] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/02/25/ask-... [5] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24075505 [6] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3530364/ [7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16256003 |