Busting the Cholesterol Myth

[shelley]

The food giants would have us all believe that fats are killers - please update your information if you believe this. Avoiding fats will kill you faster than anything because it impairs the liver and indeed all our major organs and BRAIN, and indeed, since the nation has switched to margarine, heart attacks, strokes and Alzheimer's has risen dreadfully! Way above the number determined by population growth and aging baby-boomers.

The reason food giants hate real fats - butter, lard, and other animal fats, is because they don't store well on a shelf. They rot pretty darn quickly. A Twinkie would never survive until the next ice age if it was made with real butter. That means fewer profits, and the food giants are all multi-billion dollar companies.

For more info on Fats, visit www.westonaprice.org and Udo Erasmus' website and read his book, "Fats that heal, fats that kill." He looks really good for his age! and well he should, since he feeds his skin plenty of good fats!

Elevated serum cholesterol, the demon most people over 30 are trying to fight, is NOT due to eating animal foods! You cannot get chronic cholesterol problems by eating eggs. This was proven by a demented man who hate 20 eggs a day for a decade. He had perfect cholesterol.

Did you know the brain is made up of cholesterol? It's practially all it is - a mass of fat and protein combined. Now, how can what makes up our brain be bad for us? Children denied fats and cholesterol end up with ADD, epilepsy and other serious disorders, including depression. Their parents desire to be healthy is probably a major factor in teen suicide.

You can go on the diet the doctor prescribes - no dairy, no butter, and follow it perfectly - I did - and get plenty of exercise and eat high fiber, and it will NOT lower your serum cholesterol one single bit! So the doctor will say, oh, it's your genetics, nothing you can do, take a pill.

The real answer is sugar. Sugar, almost identical to cocaine chemically, is very hard to digest safely. Eat it long enough and someday you will reach your sugar threshold. The body will say, we can't let this sugar affect you anymore, and it will convert it into - you guessed it - cholesterol.

The best cure for cholesterol is a no-sugar diet of mostly whole foods and reduced calories, basically the Candida Diet .

I had perfect cholesterol when I was eating my Candida Diet , but it has since shot up, so I will be quitting sugar very soon. I'm saying good-bye now as I eat my favorite sugary things one last time. It's been fun, sugar, but now you're costing me my health and that I refuse to give up. I refuse to rely on pharmeceuticals all of my life, so out you go!

[h0ppy]

From the words of Udo Erasmus...

"Sugar Turns Sour and Vinegar Becomes Fat"

How does our body convert sugar molecules into fats and cholesterol? When our cells' furnaces (mitochondria) break down a 6-carbon glucose molecule to produce energy, one of the steps involves the creation of 2-carbon acetates (vinegar). These acetates are building blocks for both cholesterol and saturated fatty acids. If acetates are produced faster than they can be burned by our body into carbon dioxide, water, and energy, they pressure enzymes in our cells to hook them end to end to make saturared fatty acids and cholesterol. This process prevents the metabolic problems that excess acetates would cause in our cells if they were allowed to accumulate. In the short term, excess vinegar in our cells is more toxic than excess fats and cholesterol.

[ivana]

Interesting article Shelley
My mother has high cholesterol, and basically it runs in the family, but, my mother was never a sweet toot, she just doesn't like sweets, her coffee is even without any sugar
She does take things like potatoes, simple carbs and other things that are no-no on Candida diet, and is this amount of sugar also affecting level of cholesterol, or do you think it IS THE GENETICS


Ivana

[shelley]

Everyone has to find their "carb tolerance." We're all very very different in that respect, and yes, it has a LOT to do with genetics.

At the core, is this truth about cholesterol: it is due to imbalance caused by giving the body too much of the wrong things. For most people, the wrong things are sugar and dead, processed foods. But everyone has to find out for their own self what the wrong thing is for them. Sometimes all they have to do is simply exceed their actual caloric needs for them to go all wonky.

[buffboi26]

does anyone know how much fats is too much fats??? i dun want to end up with a fatty liver

many thanks to nayone who can answer that question..

[shelley]

It depends on the person and the type of fats, however, what most people should aim for is to have 33% of your calories come from fats. Have a pretty equal distribution between carbs, fats and protein.

Since a tablespoon of oil is 100 calories, if your body needs 1,000 calories a day to maintain weight, then 2-3 tablespoons of oil is about right, with the rest coming from your protein sources, whole dairy, eggs, avocados, etc.