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by elhudy 1955 days ago
Edited to say "animal products" rather than meat.
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I wasn't trying to nitpick your comment. Even excluding animal products it's still possible to eat a diet high in saturated fat.
No worries, I should have just said she "eats healthy".
Saying that someone "eats healthy" is so vague as to be meaningless.
can't please everybody :)
I think specifying meat vs other sources is more of an inaccuracy thing and can be corrected easily without involving interpretations.

"eats healthy" on the other hand is an exercise in assigning values to one way of eating over another. If you talk to a keto guy and you tell him you "eat healthy too" he might assume you're doing keto too. Talk to a vegan they probably think you're vegan as well etc. :)

Well, we know they don't eat like a pig, stocking their mouth with burgers and fries and deep fried mars bars. That's something...
But dietary cholesterol itself only comes from animal products, which is probably why the Dr. said to cut out all animal products.
What I have found and read recently-ish about as well is that dietery cholesterol will actually not have any bad effect on the cholesterol in your bloodstream. If I eat eggs and bacon my cholesterol basically stays the same as if I don't and my body just manufactures more of the bad stuff.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/how-its-made-cho...

> In fact, cholesterol production is so important that your liver and intestines make about 80% of the cholesterol you need to stay healthy. Only about 20% comes from the foods you eat

This is not true for all people, sensitivity to dietary cholesterol intake is individually variable. My cholesterol responds very strongly to dietary cholesterol intake, when I do not eat eggs yolk, shrimp etc, my cholesterol is close to ideal. When I do eat them my numbers go extremely high and I am recommended to take a statin. I am in my 40s and this has been very consistent since I was in my 20s. If you read more studies related to this you will find that there are absolutely populations of dietary cholesterol responders and non-responders.
And saturated fats are linked to higher LDL. What are we disagreeing about?