cholesterol
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Contrary to popular belief, high cholesterol food causes cholesterol problems.BUTtttttt, some people beg to differ and disagree with this point.Can any RELIABLE nutrionist or person please enlighten us?
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doctors arent even sure about it themselves.
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Got this from a webby.....
Generally, foods that are high in saturated fats or trans fats should also be limited. These include foods you may not even think of, such as:
Grilled-cheese sandwich
Margarine
Potato with butter
Chicken pot pie
so MAYBE you dont even have to eat high cholesterol food to get high cholesterol.
http://www.vytorin.com/ezetimibe_simvastatin/vytorin/consumer/sources_of_cholesterol/index.jsp -
got good cholesterol and bad cholesterol
dunno wat is good wat is bad
but i know there is google -
Even though i know nuts about cholosterol i get fumed when people tell me not to eat a particular food just because theres cholesterol inside i heard egg is HDL cholesterol or something which is supposed to be good.
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Did you know...
...that cholesterol is not a deadly poison but a substance vital to the cells of all mammals?
...that your body produces three to four times more cholesterol than you eat?
...that this production increases when you eat only small amounts of cholesterol and decreases when you eat large amounts?
...that the "prudent" diet, low in saturated fat and cholesterol, cannot lower your cholesterol more than a small percentage?
...that the only effective way to lower cholesterol is with drugs?
...that many of the cholesterol-lowering drugs are dangerous to your health and may shorten your life?
...that the new cholesterol-lowering drugs, called statins, do lower heart-disease mortality, but this is because of effects other than cholesterol-lowering? Unfortunately, they also stimulate cancer, at least in rodents.
...that you may become aggressive or suicidal if you lower your cholesterol too much?
...that polyunsaturated fatty acids, those which are claimed to prevent heart attacks, stimulate infections and cancer in rats?
...that if you eat too much polyunsaturated oil you will age faster than normal? You will see this on the outside as wrinkled skin. You can't see the effects of premature aging on the inside of your body, but you will certainly feel them.
...that too much polyunsaturated oil may provoke atherosclerosis?
...that people whose blood cholesterol is low develop just as many plaques in their blood vessels as people whose cholesterol is high?
...that more than thirty studies of more than 150,000 individuals have shown that people who have had a heart attack haven't eaten more saturated fat or less polyunsaturated fat than other people?
...that old women with high cholesterol live longer than old women with low cholesterol?
...that many of these facts have been presented in scientific journals and books for decades but proponents of the diet-heart hypothesis never tell them to the public?
...that the diet-heart idea and the cholesterol campaign create immense prosperity for researchers, doctors, drug producers, and the food industry?"
-- Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph. D. in the introduction to "The Cholesterol Myths" -
there is good and bad cholesterol.. blood cholesterol can be divided into two types, one of which actually lowers the risk of heart disease. cholesterol-filled protein orbs are called lipoproteins. lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL). LDL contributes to the formation of plaques on the artery walls, while HDL helps prevent their formation. LDL is often called the bad cholesterol while HDL is the good cholesterol. these only applies to blood cholesterol.. so dietary cholesterol have no effect.
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Basically there's "bad" and "good" cholesterol, as stated.
All of us, our human body produces sufficient "good" cholesterol everyday to function normally.
Whatever we're taking in, be it "good" or "bad" is unnecessary.
That's why we should limit cholesterol intake to 300mg (i remembered correctly), which is just about 1egg(about 240mg) and 60mg to spare.
Some quick pointers here.
- All plant origin food has no-cholesterol
- Food highest in cholesterol are animal organs (pig brain, kidney, liver.)
- Second highest is egg.
Try to limit intake of such foods. (: -
I only know regular excercise turns LDL to HDL.
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i was rather impressed by ur knowledge till the last line..Originally posted by coffeeortea:there is good and bad cholesterol.. blood cholesterol can be divided into two types, one of which actually lowers the risk of heart disease. cholesterol-filled protein orbs are called lipoproteins. lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL). LDL contributes to the formation of plaques on the artery walls, while HDL helps prevent their formation. LDL is often called the bad cholesterol while HDL is the good cholesterol. these only applies to blood cholesterol.. so dietary cholesterol have no effect.
ur dietary cholesterol will ultimately end up in ur blood cholesterol too u know..