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So, should I worry about my cholesterol in LC diet?

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malek.elgazzar

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Im type 1 diabetic and this is my 2nd day in LC diet.. I'm targeting 50-60 gm (70% less than before )

Although I'm trying to limit the saturated fats in my diet, Im worried about the fat intake (will be around 65% of total daily intake).. shall I consider this?
 
Hi, you should try reading The Great Cholesterol Con by Dr Malcolm Kendrick if you are concerned about cholesterol, it`s very informative and on kindle for less than £3..
 
chri5 said:
Hi, you should try reading The Great Cholesterol Con by Dr Malcolm Kendrick if you are concerned about cholesterol, it`s very informative and on kindle for less than £3..
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Just ordered the paperback version at £00.01 plus p+p. Thanks for the recommendation, my family are concerned that I refused to take the GPs warning/prescription re statins. Perhaps I can convince them that I actually know the pitfalls.
 
I read an interesting theory the other day that suggested that plant sterols may be more risky than animal sterols. I still have a lot more reading to do. The one fact I have read over and over again is that dietary cholesterol accounts for just 15% of serum cholesterol.
 
@Guzzler is right. Our livers make 85% of our cholesterol. Only 15% comes via diet. We can improve our cholesterol levels by reducing carbs and increasing our Omega 3 consumption whilst reducing our Omega 6 intake.
 
I and a couple of my doctors think Statins are the cause of my T2.
So I stopped them two or three years ago and my bad cholesterol is down and the good up.
So no cholesterol meds for me and no more diabetes meds or blood pressure meds.
I don't think the big pharma boys like people like me.
 
Guzzler said:
Just ordered the paperback version at £00.01 plus p+p. Thanks for the recommendation, my family are concerned that I refused to take the GPs warning/prescription re statins. Perhaps I can convince them that I actually know the pitfalls.
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That`s a bargain! and a good read as well. I always think that all knowledge is power, none is wasted.
 
Bluetit1802 said:
@Guzzler is right. Our livers make 85% of our cholesterol. Only 15% comes via diet. We can improve our cholesterol levels by reducing carbs and increasing our Omega 3 consumption whilst reducing our Omega 6 intake.
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Interesting, ill check out this topic.
 
In a community class today with a teacher (on an entirely different topic) who was a heart technician. Two people were talking about being prescribed statins. All the inevitable stuff came out about sat fats etc. The teacher said that her husband had cut the sat fats and his bad cholesterol came down (she knew the different types). I didn't say anything, what can you say? But the dogma is so prevalent. I hope for our sake they are wrong.
 

Did you ask what she meant by the bad cholesterol? LDL is normally labelled as the bad cholesterol, but it is the triglycerides that are bad. If the trigs are low, the LDL is normally mostly good. Even NICE have said the LDL levels are unreliable.
 

I started eating like two dozen eggs a week sometimes on LCHF! Since then, my lipid panel has improved dramatically!
 
Bluetit1802 said:
Did you ask what she meant by the bad cholesterol? LDL is normally labelled as the bad cholesterol, but it is the triglycerides that are bad. If the trigs are low, the LDL is normally mostly good. Even NICE have said the LDL levels are unreliable.
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Yep. Trigs . Trigs are created by the liver from excess glucose as 100% saturated fat and packaged in VLDL. The more trigs, the more VLDL there is. VLDL remnants are what are converted to LDL. More trigs means more VLDL and therefore more small dense LDL.

The more trigs there are the risk for heart disease increases.

Excess glucose (e.g. insulin resistance) is what causes heart attacks.
 
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If sat fats are cut with carbs remaining the same, then cholesterol is likely to come down as the body is taking in less energy in total. But MUCH better results from cutting the carbs regardless of what happens to fat intake.

What is also misleading is that people stop eating chips, etc to cut down fat but that also cuts down carbs....... A lot of low fat diets do tell people to avoid all ready meals and takeaways due to trans-fats, so once again cutting down on high GI carbs.
 
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