The Great Cholesterol Myth + 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
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The Great Cholesterol Myth + 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
It is far more important to know whether you have a pattern A or pattern B LDL cholesterol profile than to know your total amount of LDLs.
Stephen Sinatra • The Great Cholesterol Myth + 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
Oxidation and inflammation, along with sugar and stress (more on that in chapters 4 and 8), were clearly what aged the human body the most.
Stephen Sinatra • The Great Cholesterol Myth + 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
As we said earlier, cholesterol is the basic raw material that your body makes into vitamin D; sex hormones such as estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone; and the bile acids needed for digestion. The emphasis on lowering cholesterol as much as possible is not only misguided but also dangerous.
Stephen Sinatra • The Great Cholesterol Myth + 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
stated, “There’s no connection whatsoever between cholesterol in food and cholesterol in blood. And we’ve known that all along. Cholesterol in the diet doesn’t matter at all unless you happen to be a chicken or a rabbit.”
Stephen Sinatra • The Great Cholesterol Myth + 100 Recipes for Preventing and Reversing Heart Disease
(Enig, by the way, did some of the early research on trans fats and fervently believes that it is trans fats, not saturated fats, that are the real villains in the American diet; I wholeheartedly agree.)