Cholesterol Isn't Quite as Bad as You've Been Told
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- Cholesterol! For decades it's been demonized as the reason so many people have heart disease. We 've been watching it, and avoiding it like the plague.
Why? Does that do any good? The answer may surprise - and depress you. This is Healthcare Triage.
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"avoiding it like the plague"
A slight difference in the level of avoidance, I must say. For example, I never eat butter, but I spread plague on my sandwich every morning.
I moved and started going to a new doctor and he was shocked to see how low my cholesterol was; admitted he had never seen such low levels in his entire career and asked about my lifestyle and diet. I told him I ate very little meat but eggs were a staple in my diet and I'm generally too lazy to cook so I eat lots of salads. He frowned and said, "well, you shouldn't eat eggs because of the cholesterol." O_O
Please do one on sodium. There are so many misconceptions about it.
Jaimes I think he already did one on salt.
SO butter is good for you, EAT more butter, PUT butter on everything. OK doctor. (selective hearing is the gift that keeps on giving)
Damn sight better for you than margarine (That is to say, artificially hydrogenated vegetable oil. Not necessarily "butter-like spreads")
Robert Williams ASAPScience tried it...But we need another video on Butter vs. Margarine.
Robert Williams The issue with hydrogenated vegetable oils are trans fats, as mentioned as a concern in this video. You don't need the artificial part. Stop demonizing technology.
Silverizael I always want my fake butter to have AI sentience so I can hear it's auto tuned screams as I scrap of the easy spreadable top. Don't take that away from me.
Well most everything is good for you. It's only when you have too little or too much of an essential nutrient that it becomes bad for your health.
High cholesterol isn't a cause of heart disease, it's a symptom of heart disease. As you said, we need it, and it is used for repairing the body among other things. That said, it is still a good indictor that something is wrong, because if your cholesterol is high, then something is wrong in your body. But high cholesterol isn't the problem, it's the symptom. I hate how we claim so much stuff is a cause of problems when they are actually symptoms, it has really screwed up our diets...
I believe if we did the opposite of everything we have been told to do, the population would be much healthier.
Hallelujah YES 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I am glad I found this channel.
Thank you for not only informing the public but backing it up with evidence of various research and studies.
I thought we (non Americans) stopped saying 'don't eat cholesterol' 20 years ago and replaced it with 'don't eat saturated fat' which is currently on the debunk-it-quick list.
As someone who has quite the family history of high LDL levels, heart disease, etc., this was definitely a good insight. Though I have comparatively great cholesterol levels, I've always been worried on some sort of level about my cholesterol consumption. Also, I love my eggs too much to only consume egg white omelets. NO.
Hey👋 are you still alive?
please correct "cell walls" immediately. humans do not have them.
That bugged me too.
It's just his old school A&P education coming out. I remember "cell wall" being used interchangeably between plant and animal cells back in the day. Also, most lay folk would be confused by cell membrane, plasma membrane, or cytoplasmic membrane (whichever you were tough to use).
He's a doctor not a biologist not everyone has to know the difference between cell membranes and cell walls.
I love how much you hate The Milk Emperor. lol
Also, before anyone complains about my comment, milk does come from cow rape. The females aren't asked to be kept pregnant constantly and inseminated (raped).
Diana Peña
i... i don't even...
rape is non-consentual intercourse, not insamination.
cows can't really give consent anyway and consent for intercourse is actually pretty rare in the animal kingdom, so rape is actually more common ("normal") than consentual sex.
so no, it's not rape and your comment is very complain-worthy.
These milk breeders jerk off male cows against their will and shove that sperm in a female cow's vagina against her will to constantly keep her pregnant so she can live a fifth of her usual live expectancy. If you did that to a human, people would be flying off the walls and filing rape charges because it's rape.
Diana Peña
it still would be considered rape, contrary to impregnating someone without consent. that would be considered "grievous bodily harm".
impregnating is not a sexual activity, "shoving up a dildo" someones "ass" is considered one.
"male cows" LOVE to be "jerked off", this is not done against their will (that wouldnt even work).
they use an artificial cow that is then humped by the bull. this has to be done very rarely, since cows are insaminated artifically and one ejaculation can be used to impregnate hundreds of cows.
(and as stated before, they love it. for them it is the same as actually having intercourse with a cow.)
looks like you got your entire knowledge from the usual badly researched peta-propaganda and then you just filled the blanks on your own (ofc. wrong).
please stop talking about things that you know nothing about, if people would do that we would have a lot less quarrel on this planet.
Diana Peña well that escalated quickly
The worst part of the cholesterol scare is that foods high in cholesterol, like eggs and shellfish, are actually super good for you. Moreover, a type of shellfish known as bivalves (oysters, mussels, and clams), are actually super good for the environment as well as being super healthy--they literally have a lower carbon footprint than plant-based protein sources like tofu and lentils, AND don't use any fresh water or cause habitat destruction AND actually remove pollution from the water!
(an accessible source on this topic is the BBC's article "the simple food that fights climate change")
I eat eggs often, not every day but there was a time I used to eat 3 eggs a day for about 3-4 days a week, and I have been to my doctor and he told me that I am eating the right foods and I am healthy and just to keep a watch the amount of salt, sugar, saturated fat and fat I consume every day and I have always made sure to keep those in check.
I just cited this video in my nutrition class's discussion of changes to the dietary guidelines. :D
Just so you know, I've been starting to eat better over the last few months, but there was something about this video that made it suddenly click.
I can eat (nominally) whatever the heck I want, if I make it myself. The more processed, the more saturated fat/transfat that's needed to make it delicious and shelf-stable. Obviously I'll still eat out, but keeping that in mind... it makes it a lot easier. I don't know why it's taken 31 years to make that sink in, but thanks very much. I appreciate it.
Where the hell were these videos when I had to write PICOT questions for school. So many good ideas with good research.
I was under the impression carbohydrates were what really determined how high your cholesterol got. Mine is only an N=1 study, but going low carb-high fat greatly reduced my total cholesterol, raised my HDL and brought my LDL levels in line.
Yes refined flour, sugar, pesticides, fake oils are bad.
Can you go more into detail about the differences between LDL-A and LDL-B? The documentary "Fat-Head" suggested that only LDL-B was actually harmful, and was linked more to high glucose diets rather than high fat diets. I'd love to hear your take on it.
Literally every disease has a link to glucose diets, insulin is the answer in every single case! High insulin causes all kinds of issues, sugar and carbs cause high insulin, so sugar and carbs are what we need to avoid, not fat.
@@haylslouise8428 conclusive evidence for this please.
@@haylslouise8428 I can't see how fruit is bad in moderation.
@@Chris-kr7gg fruit isn't bad. I eat tons of fruit, but since cutting out refined sugar, carbs, intermittent fasting and eating more red meat with plenty of protein and fat I've never felt better! You won't get conclusive evidence off me, but Dr sten ekberg knows what he's talking about. I trust him over mainstream doctors and scientists. Everything we have been told is lies, so unless the evidence came from one of the liars, brainwashed people will not believe it.
@@haylslouise8428 do you mean refined carbs.
High Cholesterol and fat play no part in heart disease. My dad was on a low fat diet and when diagnosed with coronary heart disease, his cholesterol was a bit lower than normal! He did however eat a lot of carbohydrates which we all know raise insulin and are converted to glucose. Insulin is your answer to heart disease. High insulin causes a huge range of issues in the body and what causes the high insulin? 1. Carbs and sugar, 2. Eating too often. Eat once a day, one big meal that's high in calories and fat, low in carbs and no sugar! You will have reduced your chances of getting heart disease and diabetes and so many other diseases to almost 0.
You just blew my mind.
The longer I live, the more I realize doctors and dieticians don’t know anything about nutrition or even health.
Looking forward to next week's Healthcare Triage
I look forward to your next video on Fats as well. It's good to finally start basing dietary recommendations on evidence.
I'd also be interested in hearing a review of the use of statins.
If you study physiology regarding cardiovascular disease, and look at the mechanisms. Cholesterol being the main culprit makes absolutely no sense at all.
Btw, your body very closely regulates cholesterol. We have systems in place to do that. Any excess cholesterol is secreted through our waste. If you have more cholesterol in your system, there’s a high chance that your body’s demand for it is high because it’s being utilized for a function.
I seem to remember some recent factoid about there being more than one "kind" of LDL cholesterol, and that it was a sticky "nugget" type that tended to form plaques in blood vessels. I also remember a discussion on what factors could cause an increase of that "kind" of LDL cholesterol. I can't seem to find information about this in a quick search (I am getting ready for the day), but I would love to see more on it if it becomes available.
I like to check my blood pressure when I go to the grocery store and the first test always says my BP is really high. Then I check it again and it's in the normal range. I had a similar thing happen me when I went to my doctors awhile ago also. The first test was really high and the second was normal. Is this a common occurrence? Should I be worried?
Anyhoo, keep up the great job on the channel. Thanks for the great info!
great vid, as always
So the 2 poached eggs I eat on most days are not going to make my make my heart explode. Good I was getting concerned
From what I've read sugar will corrode your arterie walls and your body will then produce more colesterol to plug the holes. You are saying actually fat is to blame? From my anecdotal experience that does not fit, as my colesterol went down quite a bit when I started eating high fat.
Well I'm going to be interested in what you have to say about it next week.
Amazing video, subbed
You had me until you said saturated fats are bad. I personally don’t believe that to be the case, but good video!
I hope there's going to be a video about the new guidelines. That would be really awesome!!
How about how sodium intake hasn't been shown to be much of an issue either.
0:52 We don't have cell walls! Plants do; we are not plants!
The Add subtitles/CC button won't take me to the subtitle and closed caption contribution page :(
I'm gonna eat me some eggs with a nice tall glass of milk!
Seriously though, I love that you cover topics like this. Keep it up!
Very good.From this video i understood cholesterol is needed for everyone especially LDL.Thank you.
i think it comes as a shock to most people that dietary consumption of cholesterol doesn't particularly matter in otherwise healthy individuals. our body ramps up and down cholesterol synthesis depending on how much you eat. so unless you're eating massive quantities of cholesterol (or taking a medication) your cholesterol levels will probably not vary too much.
personally, i eat 4 whole "jumbo" eggs every day (235mg each; 940mg total) then + whatever else cholesterol i eat that day. at my last check up, i can't remember what my exact numbers where, but my doctor said i had the best cholesterol numbers he'd ever seen.
in my medical school courses this year they told us that it wasn't the LDL levels that matter, rather the HDL levels and perhaps the ratio between the two.
I really enjoy these videos, SciShow and CrashCourse too, but why do they cut the video so that the orator jumps left and right on the screen? Is it to try to keep peoples' attention?
So what about the percentage of people who are sensitive to dietary cholesterol intake? How can they find out if they have that issue and what are the recommendations for them?
I love this channel.
I looked through the results of the dietary guidelines advisory committee and was sad to see no plans to change recommendations regarding grains, "protein foods," or dairy.
Also, does anybody know what makes "added sugar" so much worse than plain old sugar? If you get way too much sugar but most of it comes from fruit juice and milk, is that somehow not as bad?
I want to see if there is a direct relationship between sugar and cholesterol. The body produces cholesterol as part of the process for transporting sugars through the body. could it be that Sugar is the actual villain here instead of fats or cholesterol rich foods as we had been lead to believe? My bet is that high sugar intake (regardless if you are a diabetic or not) has a direct relation to high cholesterol levels within the body.
My cholesterol was first measured when i was 12 and I'm now in my mid-40s. At 12 LDL 200 HDL 450. I was an omnivore then. Through time, I've been vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian. Those numbers have been constant, and match my sister and most of my dad's family, which has no history of heat disease.
In the future could you include your sources in the description please?
I'd love to know your professional opinion about the CDC's recommended 2-week meal plan.
Good I've been eating eggs every morning and everyone has been warning me about my cholesterol intake lol
Provided you do enough activity in your day / exercise to burn the calories / fat found in your breakfast, Eggs are actually very nutritious. Don't listen to those Vegans who only eat their Vegetables, Eggs and Lean meats of very healthy and i would argue vital for those who weight lift or do athletic sports.
haha I agree but I still think you should eat relatively "healthy" since I'd consider myself in great shape if you look at my videos but on the other hand the way I'm able to eat since I burn so much fat probably isn't the best for me.
Crocoduck Then you have not looked up vegan gains
Anthony Bachour
I eat around 5~10 eggs a day since I was a kid. Then again, I lift weights 3 times a week and do cardio 3 times a week. My own family warns me of eating too many eggs hahaha.
Kaiji Itou nice man but how the hell do you train so much in one day??? nice lol I train 4x a week once per day :P
got a add about low cholesterol butter right before this
I'd be curious to see what ratio of cholesterol gets absorbed / used by the body vs how much cholesterol they're producing on their own (maybe putting some sort of marker or isotope in the dietary cholesterol). The "hypo-responders", do they absorb the dietary cholesterol and downregulate their own production, or is there something about their GI tract that simply doesn't allow them to absorb as much cholesterol as the other 30%?
If You're talking about saturated fats then don't forget also to differentiate between short-chained, medium-chained, long-chained and very-long-chained. These differ quite drastically when it comes to impact on health...
Theory says that only long-chained and very-long-chained ( above C14 ) which uses chylomicrons during metabolism *might* affect CVD risk parameters.
We knew everything there is to know about nutrition way back. You need enough calories but not too much. You need sufficient amounts o certain vitamins and minerals, and you sufficient amounts of the essential amino acids.That is all.
link in description doesn't work =\
Super processed Seed Oils are the real monster!
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Wait, cell walls? Humans don't have cell walls, that's a plant/fungus thing. Right?
Yes, you''re right it was a slight mistake
in a traditional sense they have walls. he was using the term loosely
Schon Fazio
He meant Cell Membranes!
Cholesterol is used to stabilise and produce rigidity in the Phospholipid Bilayer that makes up the membranes of our cells.
Dietary guidelines are an effective frame of reference for nutrition professionals and clients alike to measure overall adherence to a quality diet. They give everyone a better idea of what kinds of food-related goals to set for themselves and recommend to others.
However.
While we can use these guidelines as a reference point, it's important to remember, as Aaron mentioned here, that every individual is different. In this case, cholesterol does not necessarily affect every person the same exact way. Relying on general guidelines too heavily can hinder both disease care and prevention.
Health professionals, especially dietitians, should start thinking about communicating to the public the importance of individualized care. Physicians and licensed nutrition professionals, working as a team, can change the way patients are cared for, such as in cases of heart disease. There are neither unlimited amounts of time nor resources/bodies to make it feasible, but every patient and client alike has different needs. One recommendation, or treatment, certainly will not work for everyone the same. It takes a combination of monitoring from the medical side as well as the dietary side.
Cholesterol over 300: deficiency in cognitive ability and joint pain heightened
Cholesterol lowered to 202 (using ezetimibe): better cognitive functioning, less joint pain, but chronic depression (from childhood) increased, even while taking venlafaxine (effexor 150XL)
I'M so screwed. *sigh*
It's becoming a more common thought (if not a completed study) that the liver "knows" how much Cholesterol the body needs and makes sure that it has it. If you're not eating CHL, the liver makes more. If you're adding CHL through diet, the liver makes less. My personal experience when being diagnosed "hyperlipidemic", total CHL 325 and an urgent call to start statins was that dietary CHL made absolutely no difference. After 90 days of (almost) total abstinence from dietary fat...my levels dropped less than 10 pts. Why your body may need "more" cholesterol is perhaps the real question...for another time.
Thank God!
How does one know if one is in the group where dietary cholesterol does matter?
I wish they would release a video a day. That way I would have something to watch while I'm stuffing my face with these delicious extra-butter egg-cheese sandwiches mmmmmm
They aren't going to label harmless for over consumption. You know how much money pharmaceutical companies are going to lose if they did that?
So how so someone know that he/she needs statins or that their cholesterol levels are pretty fine in regards to the knew view on cholesterol= If doctors only follow the old rules there are no changes to expect. So how can a normal guy know if he/she needs help or not because of their hypercholsterol or LDL? Any ideas what we should do?
"Cell Walls"? You sure you don't mean membranes?
I'm thinking to a certain extent that people have gotten along pretty well without the discovery of nutrients and such in their food. They ate what they had and stayed healthy. Granted we have a far wider variety of foods in our reach now- both imported and processed- but it seems a person can get by just fine eating a balanced diet without looking at the nutrition facts on their food.
..... My Dad eats at McD's for lunch on a daily bases for years now. He eats fatty foods, butter, ext. His cholesterol is perfect. His secret is he works for a living.
Your body uses cholesterol and sunlight to make vitamin D.
My perspective its not food causing people to increase bad cholesterol or poor health.
It is the individual making bad dietary choices in life and poor living. Then contriving conflict, and or dwelling in denial, by blaming unhealthy foods and want them banned.
For some people the fabric of reality will split in two before they admit they were at fault.
I feel like eating some placebo eggs, yum :)
Can someone please tell me where I can find new studies/articles?(I'm a med student) For example, if i want to see the latest news, i maybe go to a news site or even better I go to the news page of reddit where i can also see which news are seen of an interest to the rest of the people on the site. Is there a place like this for articles? (I ought to mention that through my university's internet connection I can acces probably all the publications)
PubMed is good if you don't have money. You can at least see abstracts and content of most studies.
Joseph Harrietha
Most of the larger universities (and even some local libraries) pay what is essentially a public access fee. I can get a copy of pretty much any article I want from my university. If they don't have access to a publication, they just call one of the larger universities and a copy of the article is sent to them.
For any subject I would suggest chatting with the people at your campus library's reference desk. They can recommend the best journals and online databases to use. If there's a particular subject you're interested in you can sign up to get emailed about new publications.
Lol eating low cholesterol meant eating almost no eggs and little meat then avoiding saturated fat means cutting out all animal products including butter, cheese, eggs, milk and meats (even lean). So basically what you have to avoid would still stay the same.
I'm on atorvastatin what about meds?
I was waiting for that last sentence about saturated and trans fats the entire video lol. I knew something in the diet was still affecting it. Just not directly cholesterol from diet to the blood
Can you please make a video debunking homeopathy, traditional and alternative medicine. My mom is a HUGE believer in it(probably a placebo effect), even though it originated all the way back in 1500 BC. For some reason she believes that modern medicine has many side effects and is dangerous(which is obviously not true).
So where are the studies according which doctors base their recommendations to cut cholesterol?
Were they false?
Our understanding about food with cholesterol definitely changed a lot since the 70's
I would love to see Healthcare Triage do an episode on Vitamin D. An acquaintance of mine just told me that washing with soap with soap will wash Vitamin D away before it can be absored. That sounds like crap to me and the only sources that cover that seem like hokey blogs.
Dr. Carroll, this article you cited shows "Supported by the American Egg Board and the University of Connecticut Research Foundation. K.L.H. is the 2002 recipient of the American Egg Board Egg Nutrition Center Dissertation Fellowship in Nutrition."
Doesn't this mean it was funded by the American egg board? If it does, does this not mean a loss of integrity? I legitimately would like to know. Thank you.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15164336/
Where it shows AEB supported it:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0026049504000708
I'm only 27, I have high cholesterol. My doctor sent me to a dietitian, I was not told that I needed to cut back on cholesterol intake at all, I was told I needed to keep my saturated fat intake at less than 20g per day. One cheese burger is 20g, one milkshake is 25g. I haven't had a real cheese burger in 2 years, I want one badly.
I'm waiting for next weeks video.
***** Since march I have changed my diet a lot. I'm just barely on the positive side of the cholesterol border with no pills at all and although I can't quite pull it off, I'm realizing the ideal diet seems to be about 90% plant based and 10% animal based.
As far as going 100% vegan, that is kind of extreme and as far as overall health, I've found a link that says otherwise i.imgur.com/ZVpRdmZ.jpg
***** The real issue is I don't want to be a hypocrite, I hope that other life forms eat every last bit of me after I die. So I just try to treat others as I want them to treat me. I believe that that is the golden rule. :)
***** And I've done nothing to harm the insects and bacteria, but they'll eat my rotting corpse anyway. I do not intend to harm them, but I do intend to live as long and happy as I can. It is in my intrest to keep them around, so I can save myself. Saddly, it's the fittest, not the friendliest that survive. I understand you don't like it, but I don't like traveling slower than the speed of light, so life is not only unfair to sheep and cows, it's unfair to you and me both.
I hope you live a long time, learn a long time and feed other lifeforms for a long time.
There's no debate about HDL increasing from the ingestion of Saturated fats though. So I'm not sure why Saturated fats would do anything but decrease the risk of cvd.
+polyanthesis Although, people with high HDL still get heart attacks.
+Li-San People with low total cholesterol are also less likely to survive a heart attack compared to people with high cholesterol.
polyanthesis Based on what study?
+Li-San Loves here's only one... www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25738856 this one only mentions LDL. But just read about all-cause mortality and low total cholesterol. All-cause includes suicides, heart disease and accidents. Humans with low cholesterol tend to die off rather easily (and those with mental health issues are less stable)...
polyanthesis Accidents can happen to anyone. It doesn't mean that the low cholesterol caused it. Suicide and mental health can be greatly helped through eating nutritious plant foods high in antioxidants, and keeping a positive outlook on life. Heart disease is preventable through a plant based diet. Have you read the work of Dr Garth Davis?
update video please
Do Cheerios help?
Can you guys do an episode on steroids? There is A LOT of discussion about it and i'd like to hear your opinions on the truths and myths about it :O
I did eat an egg white omlette once. It's not worth it
Do an episode on MSG
All these diseases we have, I believe, aren’t caused by fats or cholesterol, but by sugar and very processed foods.
I know!! I eat very unhealthy and I am still alive and kicking!
What the "vast majority of Americans think" about food in general is driven by moneyed interests with only one concern. Even stuff that never contained gluten are declared 'gluten free'. Studies showing no real link between dietary cholesterol intake and serum cholesterol levels pre-date the studies cited by this guy ironically. There are still food labels declaring 'cholesterol free' on substances that never contained dietary cholesterol in the first place. Low cholesterol diets were recommended to heart attack survivors from the late 50's- Oh god, don't eat eggs. This was before the science was complete. Fat in doesn't mean fat on and i'm not talking about trans fats/ hydrogenated crap either! The people offering dietary advice have turned the 'food pyramid' nearly upside down and have been telling us what to eat while diabetes and obesity have gone through the roof. The FDA is compromi$ed by big Pharma! BTW- Don't take statins!! especially females. Research-Science! - deal in facts then live with the truth!
Stopped trusting dietary recommendations after I learned food and drugs were supervised under the same administration
Aren't cell walls a plant thing not an animal thing ?
The only thing that helps the ratio of good and bad cholesterol is exercise.
You can't say LDL is the "bad" cholesterol without explaining the difference between the kind of particles in it. LDL-a and LDL-b; people whose LDL particles are predominantly small and dense (b), have a threefold greater risk of coronary heart disease. Furthermore, the large and fluffy type of LDL (a) may be protective.
Lying here too I see. Large LDL particles are also atherogenic.
Jorge Luis Garcia Thank you for proving my point.
Your welcome!!
I've got an app on my tablet, where you put in age, ethnicity, cholesterol, HDL, blood pressure, if you smoke, if you have diabetes, or are on blood pressure meds, and it will calculate your 10 year risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. If your LDL is 70 to 189mg/dL and your calculated 10yr risk is >7.5% it might be time for a statin.
As a vegan myself, I agree with you that there are a TON of good reasons not to eat animal products. However, cholesterol intake does not seem to be one of them.
Oh okay, if it's nothing else, I can live with a "citation needed" complaint. That's fine by me. I'm going with www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8539; Joachim Rassow, Rainer Deutzmann, Roland Netzker, Karin Hauser: Duale Reihe Biochemie, 3. Auflage, 2012, Thieme Verlag and Heinrich, Müller, Graeve: Löffler/Petrides Biochemie & Pathobiochemie, 9. Auflage, Springer-Verlag,Heidelberg 2014 (the latter of which are admittedly medical textbook examples only)
Congrats so far, good for you!! :) It's been tremendously hard to eat vegan for the first time too.Most affordble sources are probably beans and chickpeas, lentils are good too. Tofu is nice too (but not for everyone) and soy products (in moderation) as well. Then you have your fancied out sources like quinoa and tempeh and chia and whatnot, but tbh those are neither very sustainable nor affordable (to me at least ;) )
As for an important "beginner's" tip it's really really important that you always eat enough. If you're hungry you'll certainly crave meat and or cheese more (God knows I did) an are more likely to break your habit :D
That's right "we" certainly a lot of new stuff if we cherrypick conclusions out of a study as it pleases us. It's a subconclusion with regards to a specific subgroup, diabetic people (and an interesting one at that but certainly not one that could be genralised to the whole public).
Can we all please agree that debates about the health aspects of vegan and omnivore diets should be held on as neutral, non-ideological ground as possible? Other facets of veganism definitely warrant some level of justifiable emotion but this one does not, especially when it comes to interpreting data.
Because As for your "meat eaters are stupid"- don't even go there, Im so very sure that you're better than this. It's these kind of statements people hate us vegans for. It's sad really- and counterproductive which is almost infinitely worse in my opinion.
Yeah, I know.
We're on the same page here.
Some things said in this video are not a given and confuse me based on other peer-reviewed, non-industry funded studies that show the opposite of what was being said.
For example, peer-reviewed studies show that If you feed just one portion of meat to vegetarians their cholesterol goes up 20% within a month. But when they went back to being vegetarian their cholesterol dropped back to the "safe" range.
Also, as said in the video, our bodies create their own cholesterol (all you need). We don't need to add extra cholesterol in to our diets.
This, I feel, is a more accurate study on the cause of atherosclerosis and the role cholesterol has in heart disease: nutritionfacts.org/video/eliminating-the-1-cause-of-death/
What is funny about cholesterol is that cholesterol in itself is not bad! Just as it was briefly mentioned in the video, cholesterol is needed in the body as a building block for many things. Also, when people think of LDL and HDL those two terms are NOT cholesterol! Those are two different types of lipoproteins that carry cholesterol in the body. Both of those lipoproteins do different things, which is why the LDL protein is considered bad and the HDL protein good. Many physicians stress to patients to change their diets to lower their cholesterol which is absolutely false! The cholesterol that is eaten makes such a SMALL percentage of the body's overall cholesterol level. So what is the culprit to high cholesterol levels? An unhealthy liver! Reasons for an unhealthy liver could be for many reasons. This should be the focus for people with high levels of cholesterol, because clearly it needs to be managed.
exactly
LOL, one study says this the other says the opposite..anything you want to believe can be proven to be true, so I'm just a lab rat for my own science experiments..now testing out ketogenic diet.. I love watching how crazy people become with the faith of their food choices.. I am an atheist when it comes to such things..i don't believe in the almighty path to correct eating due to all the conflicting information, but yet I study on.. my research so far has led me to believe that we need to be eating a variety of fats balanced in almost equal proportions(long, medium, and short chain fatty acids) and processed grains are worthless. The only thing I have faith in is that Ramen Noodles are the devil..good/cheap/filling..and they never break down..you will never lose weight if they are in your diet and eventually your blood pressure will get screwed from the sodium.. They completely don't give a shit about the calorie in calorie out thing.
My
Doctor told me today I have high chorestrol:(
Do an episode on stretching!
Please
Gonna go eat a three-egg noodle soup. Thanks, Aaron.
Love your info. I just found out my aunt has devic's dieses. Can you tell me more about this?
Reinforcing what I already knew!! I take in a lot of cholesterol and literally expeienced 0 weight gain! (Then again... fast metabolisms are a godsend if you want to eat a bunch of junk with little to no negative repercussions!)
Your one of the lucky ones, i have to be fairly strict with diet and exercise to maintain around 15% body fat :)
Watch as every vegan will claim that meat causes atherosclerosis and that vegans never it get it because it "only comes from meat." Can you please make a video about the human diet and about life expectancies and causes of death among vegans, vegetarians and meat eaters.
Straw man. No one here is claiming that veganism is magical.
However, it's better for your health, wallet, animals, starving people, and the environment.
Diana Peña Still a video on good research about life expectancy and quality of life of different diet types would be nice
Diana Peña
Health: Not quite, a vegan diet is VERY restrictive, frankly put boring. My mental health would suffer and I'd probably just resort to vitamin supplements anyway.
Wallet: Depends what you eat, some nuts are more expensive than vegetarian/meat products.
Animals: Possibly, but see environment.
Staring People: I don't believe you, or think you can back it up.
Environment: Here is the tricky one, studies go back and forth and both sides lie. The only thing I have learnt is that a mixed diet (vegetarian) works best (sustainable) for the environment, or one of which we eat a lot of bugs. (gross)
To feed the global population a vegan diet apparently just does not work, fertile land runs out quite fast, you end up hurting the environment more, not to mention all the land clearing you are doing and animals killed during harvesting the food you are now mass producing.
Eppiox "To feed the global population a vegan diet apparently just does not work, fertile land runs out quite fast, you end up hurting the environment more, not to mention all the land clearing you are doing and animals killed during harvesting the food you are now mass"
I'd argue against this without advocating veganism, animal products (except fish) require large amounts of vegetable products to sustain, one number I've seen thrown around a lot is 10; 10 acres of crops for oe acre of cattle. But that number is probably fake.
In any case, eliminating animal products would probably result in more increase in vegetable supply than vegetable demand.
Yeah vegetables fruits and such, things like wheat and rice also.
I've read numbers like 1000 litres of water for 1kg of meat, and then the reverse like loads of water for plant life equivalent in value to the meat..
The only one I've found that I believed/values seemed most legitimate is the one about eating bugs :/
an episode on whey would be awesome.
Hey, I LOVE egg white omelettes! :)