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4. That's correct. Less than 10% of total cholesterol is from diet

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 11:11 PM

Mar 2013

Cholesterol is a useful substance that our livers crank out by the bucketful. We need it in order to live. Anti lipid drugs have worked miracles in people with naturally high cholesterol, some well over 300. The jury is out on whether the benefit exceeds the risk in people with normal to high normal readings.

Imagine how vindicated I felt after learning that butter, essentially a stick of pure cholesterol, was less damaging to the system than the trans fats in "healthy" margarines. It seems that a lot of the dietary substitutes turn out to be worse for us in the long run than just eating a varied diet of real foods would have been, butter just being the tastiest of them all.

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Hardening of the arteries common in ancient mummies [View all] kwassa Mar 2013 OP

Well that pretty much blows the theory about the modern diet hobbit709 Mar 2013 #1

Sturgeon's Law: bemildred Mar 2013 #2

That's correct. Less than 10% of total cholesterol is from diet Warpy Mar 2013 #4

That is one of them, yeah. bemildred Mar 2013 #6

We just switched back to real butter from margarine. Very happy to have done so, too! GreenPartyVoter Mar 2013 #30

Yes because butter has actual flavor Warpy Mar 2013 #34

I ain't feeling so good myself mokawanis Mar 2013 #3

Um, always thought the ancients ate much better than we do now. freshwest Mar 2013 #5

There is a lot of data to suggest that they did before the agricultural revolution Exultant Democracy Mar 2013 #13

But .. But ... I don't want to go Paleo. I don't like meat. Arugula Latte Mar 2013 #19

Just keep on with the nuts that grow on trees. You can't go wrong there. And that's Paleo. freshwest Mar 2013 #25

I question that because they were probably on as much of a meat eaters diet as we are the only jwirr Mar 2013 #27

Talking about processing and chemicals - they didn't have as much as we do, is all. freshwest Mar 2013 #29

Bingo. They had very little preservatives. That is a good point. jwirr Mar 2013 #32

hereditory MFM008 Mar 2013 #7

I Think the Point RobinA Mar 2013 #10

Yes, it's the authoritarian attitude based on wrong ideas that needs to go. bemildred Mar 2013 #14

Wouldn't you think they'd be pretty hard after 3500 years? AAO Mar 2013 #8

According To The Article RobinA Mar 2013 #11

Then they really should refer to it as calcification of the artery walls. AAO Mar 2013 #15

LMAO - my thought exactly! Myrina Mar 2013 #17

Or it could be characteristic of people who live in climates dry enough to allow mummification Bossy Monkey Mar 2013 #9

Whose remains were mummified? Andy Stanton Mar 2013 #12

This is exactly what they originally suggested when they first discovered the evidence in Exultant Democracy Mar 2013 #16

Well yes, but also didn't the rich of the ancient to medievel world generally live longer than the MillennialDem Mar 2013 #20

Shh! Quit making sense! :) IdaBriggs Mar 2013 #23

That wouldn't have been true in pre-Columbian and Alaskan groups. sybylla Mar 2013 #28

oh good! CountAllVotes Mar 2013 #18

I'm being cryogenically frozen MillennialDem Mar 2013 #21

really? CountAllVotes Mar 2013 #22

Yes, I'd rather have a chance at life after death than not. Religion, speculation about the MillennialDem Mar 2013 #24

Too much salt? think4yourself Mar 2013 #26

I recall reading a similar article a few years back, but in that case it was about a Chinese GreenPartyVoter Mar 2013 #31

Glad to know its not only me madokie Mar 2013 #33