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[shostahoosier]

So what I eat will have no affect on my LDL cholesterol level?

[drydell]

I'd recommend listening to -arguably- the worlds leading cardiovascular pathologist on the cause of athrosclerosis before you jump headlong into eating high cholesterol foods...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Roberts

his article
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18849550 (can't view article unless subscribed..

but watch a summery here..
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/eliminating-the-1-cause-of-death/

The evidence is not in single studies but in the overwhelming weight of studies - according to all the nutrition experts who aren't in the low-carb camp..

It's not surprising low-carb dieters desperately want this to be a myth - it would mean their diet is highly dangerous for long-term health.

It was certainly interesting that you can lose weight though ketosis - but for this to be a viable diet long-term would mean that the theory that SF is bad for our health needs to be disproved.

You guys claim that heart disease association's are slow/misguided/out of touch etc..not responding to the evidence. Well look what happened with Trans Fats - as soon as they were found to be very very harmful every organization immediately responded/ updated their information and warned against eating these fats. I don't see the information changing anywhere re Sat Fats.. yet atkins has been around decades - Taubes wrote his first article nearly 10 years ago..

Plus it's not just the Heart disease organizations - its every respected authority on nutrition everywhere.. such as the Harvard School of Public Health.. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-full-story/index.html

It boils down to conspiracy theory in the end..

Btw way - every low-carber cites that one meta-analysis as though it was the holy grail of nutrition research - but what does one of the main researchers Frank Hu - think about fat? http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ats/Apr30/ - he says an egg a day is ok in his opinion but he certainly doesn't let SF off the hook..

[Poltergeist]

[EH]

You're in Korea. You want to know what to eat to stay healthy?
Traditional Korean food.
You really can't go wrong if you do that. Ask someone a few generations older what they ate (when they had food) growing up. I did. Here are some things I learned:

wild sesame oil (deul gireum) and/or lard for cooking
soup at every meal, usually based on boiling bones of some sort first
rice, lightly polished so as to be neither completely white nor brown
fermented vegetables at every meal
seaweed, fish, fish eggs, fermented fish dishes, shellfish
beef (pastured) in the fall, when it was slaughter time
chicken (pastured) soup, especially in the summer
pork (pastured) whenever available
goat milk for the little ones to drink (not pasteurized, but boiled in many families)
rice and beans always soaked before cooking
no sugar to speak of
fruit in season
tofu on major holidays only (too much work to make on regular days), and almost always cooked in fermented bean paste (twenjang)
barley, sorghum, millet, job's tears, etc. to supplement rice
potatoes and yams to supplement rice
wheat used sparingly

Those are the basics. Such a way of life by necessity includes seasonal eating, and includes copious amounts of wild greens and wild creatures. It is not lo-carb. It is not faddish. It is simply what makes sense based on the environment, and it happens to include plenty of fat-soluble vitamins, digestion-friendly gelatin, and other nutrients. Plus it's really tasty.

Can one eat this way in modern Korea? Not so easily, it is true. Very few of us raise goats on our verandas, and the art of harvesting wild mountain greens is dying out. But otherwise it is mostly possible, if one invests a little time into cooking and sourcing food and avoids processed junk.

So, yes, what you eat does affect your cholesterol. But that does not mean you should eat only canola oil and puffed rice cakes. Quite the opposite. Eat what the land provides, not what the factories on top of it provide, and it's hard to go too far wrong.

[bobbybigfoot]

Just so you know, without cholesterol you would be dead. It's not the enemy the mainstream media portrays it to be.

The enemy is not fat. It's sugar.

[Poltergeist]

Congratulations on learning to use a spell check, Enrico.