The healthiest population which consumes the greatest amount of saturated fat is the Cretans. The source of their fat is fish and olive oil, so there are fats and there are fats. As I pointed out, the Fr. consume a lot of wine and cheese, and fruit, and at least some of their sat fat has to come from olive oil and fish.
If people consume enough vegetable sterol it will cancel out their cholesterol and fat intake. This is another factor of the Swiss and French diet which is unknown at present but may be different.
jn.nutrition.org
jn.nutrition.org
cababstractsplus.org
"Cholesterol oxidation products, termed oxysterols, are increasingly considered of potential interest in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic lesions. Of dietary or endogenous origin, oxysterols may occur in significant amounts in low density lipoprotein (LDL) particles, especially in hypercholesterolemic subjects. They likely contribute to the uptake of modified LDL by scavenger receptors and some of them finally accumulate in the subintimal space of major arteries; here cholesterol oxides may favor the perpetuation of a chronic inflammatory state, through their ability to trigger irreversible damage of vascular cells with consequent activation of phagocytes. Furthermore, practically all oxysterols of major pathophysiologic interest have been shown to markedly up-regulate expression and synthesis of adhesion molecules, inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. Cholesterol oxidation thus appears to be an important biochemical pathway through which it exerts toxic, inflammatory and finally atherogenic effects."
It is a fact from radioactive tracer test that 70% of the plaque on the arteries come from cholesterol contained in food, not cholesterol made by the liver. It is also a fact that vegetarians get far less HD than meat eaters in North America, and also they live longer, die less from other causes. So avoidance of cholesterol and killing cholesterol with vegetable sterols DOES WORK in fact. Avoidance is an option.
What causes people to kill cholesterol plaque where they eat a lot of animal fat may be:
1. sun
2. fish and olive oil, walnuts, nuts
3. eating grass fed cattle high in CLA
4. exercise which increase their HDL and reverse transport of cholesterol - from arteries.
5. alcohol, especially red wine consumption
6. eating less overall.
7. total D3 intake from all sources. dairy may be a good source of D3.
8. probiotic dairy and primitive poorly milled heavy bread intake. (fiber)
9. vegetable green intake. Sterols kill cholesterol.
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