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Health See other Health Articles Title: U.S. may lower cholesterol's level of threat to health: report Yahoo... WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. advisory panel reviewing national dietary guidelines has decided to drop its caution against eating cholesterol-laden food, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday. At a December meeting, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee discussed its decision to no longer deem cholesterol a "nutrient of concern," according to the Washington Post. The last set of guidelines, in 2010, said to consume less than 300 milligrams per day of dietary cholesterol, about the amount in one egg. The committee will soon release a report - expected in the coming weeks - for the federal government to use as the basis of its dietary guidelines, and is withholding comment until the publication, said a spokeswoman from the Department of Health and Human Services. "The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is currently finalizing its report to the federal government detailing its scientific recommendations," HHS said in a statement. The committee did not reverse warnings on high levels of what is commonly considered "bad cholesterol," which has been linked to heart disease and possibly other health problems. For decades, the government has warned against diets high in cholesterol. But now many nutritionists believe that cholesterol intake may not significantly impact cholesterol blood levels or increase the risk of heart disease in healthy adults, according to the Washington Post. The advisory panel's report will be sent to HHS and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the agencies that decide which recommendations to incorporate in the final set of dietary guidelines, due at the end of this year. "We need to wait and see what the committee actually says before saying too much about this," said New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle. (Reporting By Lisa Lambert and Yasmeen Abutaleb; Editing by Bernard Orr) Poster Comment: BillR The push by government for the last 3 decades or so towards a low fat/high carb diet was influenced by a (now discredited) study by Ancel Keys and (yet again, money) from grain producers who stood to make a bundle (much of Big Agriculture, who gives millions to campaigns and has loads of lobbyists, is oriented toward grain production). What resulted was higher rates of heart disease along with obesity, diabetes, and Alzheimer's. Human biology 101: the brain, nervous system, hormones and cell membranes all need a supply of healthy fat and cholesterol. Eat traditional foods and don't go to the government for nutritional expertise. 61-1 oddysee 13 hours ago 1 8 Watch the video 'OILING OF AMERICA'. Alzheimer's is the brain being carmelized from a high sugar diet; just like you would carmelize a ham. The difference is brain is a slow cooker at 98.6. 8-1 MadisonM Read the book, "The Great Cholesterol Myth", and it will open your mind. Never mind Ancel Keys move over! Mr. Keys designed K rations which had small packs of cigarettes in them, considered also an important part of a diet!!! He also did starvation diet tests on army volunteers, so see the effects on your health. What a bad joke he was, and this is the basis of our government and major medical recommendations for how to be healthy? Lots of funds were also given to the American Heart Assoc. to back this all up. If you want to know the true nature of your health as regards cholesterol get a NMR lipid panel test. Look at the size of the particles, and the relationship of your triglycerides to HDL. They are your true measure of your health. -1 msmerliin I think what the government is doing is saying to eat lots of processed foods with high cholesterol so that they can continue to prescribe statins, because you know the doctors will continue to try to prescribe them anyway. Sad to say, I see nothing in there that says to eat HEALTHY food! I've believed for years that cholesterol is not as bad for you as the drugs they want to shove down your throat, and I've refused statins for 30 years. The next step should be to encourage people to eat food that is as close to nature as possible, like vegetables, meats, etc., NOT PROCESSED with chemicals and sugar and fake fats. But how would the food giants and big pharma make their trillions off of that??? At least this appears to be a very small step in the right direction and hopefully will get my current doctor off my back about statins! 29-3 Mercury All along I have been healthy exercise daily, have normal blood pressure, sugar level and weight but suffered with high Cholesterol. I was on a statin drug for four years. Pills brought it down but the quality of life suffered. It messed up everything in my body. I threw the pills out and was determined to change the doctor if I had to. Luckily my doctor agreed with my decision. Now the cholesterol is under 200 and I am still living without taking statin. 40 Robert Muller Stopped taking my statin prescription in January 2014. At same time started a bacon an egg breakfast routine - every other day - that I had denied myself for decades. In June 2014 doctor advised my cholesterol levels were the best since records were kept. Go figure. 35 Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Cholesterol is the vehicle that carries all hormones in the body. With the exception of a few hormonal women who could use a s slight reduction, the lot of us NEED cholesterol to function optimally.
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