Another anecdote: My grandma lived to 98, and only couldn't get around so well and lost mental sharpness around 96. She grew up on "southern" cooking, complete with lard at almost every meal. She refused to eat anything green. Most of her diet in her later years, when she just didn't feel like cooking any more, was KFC chicken, Papa John's wings, and Domino's pizza, and always a sugary dessert. Her joke was the grease kept her lubed. She never went to the doctor for checkups, and the only time she set foot in a hospital was when she had a cancer on her neck in her late 80's. The doctors asked what she did to stay so healthy for so long, and she said, "I just keep breathing". She died of nothing more than old age. I hope I got most of her genes.

Some people are obsessed with diets and risk factors that amount to pretty much nothing over the course of one's life.

There's heavy alcoholics and smokers living to 90, then there's the poor sods doing everything "right" and dying of cancer at 50. Nutrition is just a very small, imo insignificant, part of it - assuming you're not starving or eating the exact same thing every day for years.

It's probably more genetic; I know a family that lived to about the same age (late 80s, early 90s) but they suffer from dementia at around the 70s. (I'm the guy from reddit, I noticed your account got suspended and reverse searched your username)

You'd have to be more specific, but yeah, amazing, isn't it. God forbid you share something real, we don't do that now. All about that money and happy people probably pay more. Very good, greed is a big part of any downfall.

Not like I was complaining much, I had my own subreddit with exactly one post lol.

It's fine though, such a society is bound to go to shit soon enough. If I live, I will buy drugs illegally, I will forge papers, I will import and sell drugs and more, and then I will do whatever I can to help bring this motherfucker down.

Come on, ban me here, too. I'm fucking done with this circus.

I've always wondered what it felt like to live in the fall of civilizations and what could have been done to prevent it. For instance, the Emperor of Qing Dynasty China wanted to industrialize and modernize, but instead his bureaucrats diverted funds meant for modernizing the Navy into building another summer palace. Then that summer palace burned down during a war with Britain.

Well guess fucking what, I'm living in a failed state.

Many years ago my uncle told me eggs were bad because cholesterol. So naturally, I ate 6-8 eggs a day for a few weeks, then went for a lipid panel. My HDL went from 50 to 60 and my LDL went from 80 to 70. I think I had two ramen noodles right before that too. Granted, the initial readings were from a year before, so maybe it wasn't the eggs.

It's been awhile since I went down the cholesterol rabbit hole, but there was this guy out there claiming he could control his colesterol, and unless he was lying, the measurements back him up. He'd check his cholesterol daily and could influence which direction it was headed with his diet.

Yeah my total cholesterol has always been between 120 and 140. Not sure what the details are, but it seems to work for me.

the answer to your question is why cholesterol exists. why does your body produce the majority of cholesterol? If your body produces the majority, why would diet (the minority) make an impact?