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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Do you mean ingested cholesterol’s (ie exogenous) impact on heart disease?
Around 70 to 90 % of your total cholesterol is actually generated by your body’s own production of cholesterol (endogenous), and is not from the cholesterol in the food. The majority of the cholesterol we eat is in the non-esterified form and is not taken up in the intestines.
Do note that this is an simplification, of course, but the main driver of “bad cholesterol”, ie LDL, is more associated with the energy density of the food itself, rather than the cholesterol itself.
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