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Re:Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific co... by fmajid on Sunday October 27, 2024 @03:03AM (#41960412)
There’s almost no correlation between cholesterol ingested as food and your own blood serum cholesterol. It’s almost as if we have a digestive system to break down nutrients into their constituents rather than release them unmodified into the bloodstream.
Re:Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific co... by reissbaker on Sunday October 27, 2024 @09:22AM (#41962457)
Yup, ingesting cholesterol doesn't lead to higher blood serum cholesterol. Although in this case the article was about ingesting saturated fat leading to higher blood serum cholesterol (in my personal experience this is true, and switching to a low saturated fat diet dropped my LDL cholesterol and triglycerides).

In general it matters what you replace the saturated fat with, though: you should replace it with unsaturated fat. Replacing it with carbs/simple sugars can apparently elevate LDL cholesterol and triglycerides: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2943062/

Olive oil is good, candy is bad. (News at 11.)

Re:Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific co... by KempyKolibri on Sunday October 27, 2024 @11:17AM (#41963198)
Technically speaking it does, but only if you’re starting from a point of very low dietary cholesterol intake or you’re genetically predisposed to have high sterol absorption.

So if you’re, say, a vegan with very little cholesterol intake then adding some would result in significantly higher serum cholesterol. However, for most people in western populations, they’re already above the point where the effect tails off, which is why dietary guidelines generally don’t focus on dietary cholesterol anymore.

Re:Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific co... by EasyMark on Sunday October 27, 2024 @08:14PM (#41966730)
Shouldn’t that be “sugars and simple carbs” tho?