Ancel Keys would be delighted to know his
hypothesis still causes a stir, he basically said the world is flat and still has a following.
For me based on the 80 / 20 rule, the diet heart hyporhesis is dead in the water and has been completely discredited. Major dietary regulators since 2015 have been gradually rowing back on their
artificial guidelines around fat / cholesterol. I saw the programme which rated butter the worst performer for LDL - I don't mind the increase in the context of the overwhelming rebuttals on contempary thoughts around cholesterol, it's Kerry Gold for me all the way. I also saw the Channel 4 programme on chips cooked in vegetable oil compared to chips cooked in coconut oil - this showed the vegetable oil going rancid and no effect on the coconut oil via a scientific method; I expected this to be all over the news...not quite, talk about hiding in plain site.
Thank God or Goodness (whatever your belief) for the Engineers and Investigators who have broken open this debacle and provided solid alternatives, such as CAC scans (a CVD disease real measurement), compared to the relied on Framingham (an estimate of risk of CVD GP's use). The Feldman Protocol demonstrates that cholesterol is a point in time measurement of basically how you have eaten over 3 days, so in isolation is too variable, as you can change it from poor to great by changing the way you eat over the 3 days - yet a multi-billion worldwide business in built on this sand.
"They" are all other the place with cholesterol (and totally ignore for instance Insulin levels). Of my measurements below, I am interested in the HDL and Trigs (notice the remark next to my HDL):
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I may actually need to up the fat as my numbers are around 30% lower on Keto than before I was diagnosed. I know around 30% who low carb get an increase, I would say if you are worried, save up, beg, borrow (but don't steal) and get a CAC scan.