I’m trying to help my aunt plan her meals around cholesterol. But, there is SO much contradictory information on which foods are good or bad, and there’s apparently debate on whether cholesterol is actually connected with heart disease(?!).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4513492/
Like, I want to help but this is so confusing for me!
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*Dietary* cholesterol is at present thought to not affect cardiac outcomes. It’s the cholesterol produced by our own bodies that can cause cardiac disease.
However, dietary cholesterol can and does skew the blood tests used to determine if a person has high cholesterol, so a person with high cholesterol should limit dietary cholesterol, especially in the weeks leading up to getting blood work done.
I have high cholesterol, and I still eat eggs every now and then, liver maybe once a month. Moderation is key.
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