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<blockquote data-quote="ert" data-source="post: 2115437" data-attributes="member: 504712"><p>The current advice regarding cholesterol has changed. It used to be that diabetics were advised to restrict their cholesterol from food to 200 mg/day and normal people 300 mg/day. Current advice appears to suggest that you can't control it through diet, you can have as much cholesterol as you like.</p><p>Like you, I changed to an LC(HF) on diagnosis two years ago. After 3 months my total cholesterol had risen from normal to 10 and the GP and specialist insisted that I took statins. I asked for 3 months of trying to control it with diet and managed to get it to 4.9 by only eating 200 mg/day of cholesterol a day.</p><p>Personally, I think it's more complicated than simply 'you can't control cholesterol through diet.' I think it's to do with how good you are at burning body fat. If you go into fat-burning through IF or just with the LCHF diet, then you burn up the cholesterol you eat in your meal, so how much cholesterol you have in your diet won't make any difference. If you're not good at burning body fat, then you're all out of luck and need to count the cholesterol in your diet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ert, post: 2115437, member: 504712"] The current advice regarding cholesterol has changed. It used to be that diabetics were advised to restrict their cholesterol from food to 200 mg/day and normal people 300 mg/day. Current advice appears to suggest that you can't control it through diet, you can have as much cholesterol as you like. Like you, I changed to an LC(HF) on diagnosis two years ago. After 3 months my total cholesterol had risen from normal to 10 and the GP and specialist insisted that I took statins. I asked for 3 months of trying to control it with diet and managed to get it to 4.9 by only eating 200 mg/day of cholesterol a day. Personally, I think it's more complicated than simply 'you can't control cholesterol through diet.' I think it's to do with how good you are at burning body fat. If you go into fat-burning through IF or just with the LCHF diet, then you burn up the cholesterol you eat in your meal, so how much cholesterol you have in your diet won't make any difference. If you're not good at burning body fat, then you're all out of luck and need to count the cholesterol in your diet. [/QUOTE]
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