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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (17533)	5/4/2010 10:27:09 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

So you are claiming that it is high sugar content in diets that lead to obesity and high cholesterol, not high saturated or trans fats? There is no current dispute about trans fats being bad and absolutely to be avoided. Since we haven't been talking about trans fats, I won't address it. Your question has enough embedded factors without it. I know of no causal relationship between sugar and high cholesterol. There may be one but since I don't pay attention to high cholesterol issues, I might not have noticed or may have forgotten. The reason I don't pay attention to high cholesterol issues is because no causal relationship between high cholesterol and heart disease has been established, contrary to popular opinion. There isn't even a correlation between high cholesterol and cardiac events so there could hardly be a causal relationship. So high cholesterol is at best a proxy for heart disease and not a very good one. It has becomes something of a red herring and I tune it out. The relationship between sat fat and heart disease modestly favors sat fat. It raises both LDL and HDL but it raises HDL more. There seems to be universal agreement that high HDL is good. And studies have shown that sat fat does not increase risk of heart disease. I am satisfied with that. The most recent hypothesis and where the fresh work is being done is the relationship between sugar and obesity via insulin. It is taking some time to penetrate the establishment but inroads are being made. I find it pretty compelling.