For years, cholesterol has been considered the ultimate measure of health and fitness in America. However, the U.S. government’s Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is set to reverse decades of advice to Americans and scrap longstanding guidelines about avoiding high-cholesterol foods. In a draft report, cholesterol as found in foods like egg yolks is no longer listed as a “nutrient of concern.” The truth is, suppressing cholesterol is not about health. It’s about making money – trillions of dollars.
Contrary to popular belief, high cholesterol and a bad ratio of HDL and LDL is not in itself bad health. It is only a marker of a health problem. Suppressing cholesterol is like placing something over your car’s heat indicator light expecting to prevent the car from overheating. This is nonsense, but millions of people and their doctors still believe in this myth. People are paying $600 dollars a month for statin drugs (to lower cholesterol) that actually damage their health far more than elevated cholesterol.
Elevated cholesterol and a bad ratio of HDL and LDL is an indicator of an insulin problem. High levels of insulin continuously stimulate the production of cholesterol. The anti-fat phobia is directly linked in the medical literature and in the public mind to the cholesterol myth. Fat does not make fat, does not raise cholesterol or triglycerides, and fat consumption does not put on body fat. In fact, fat consumption takes off body fat both inside and outside. It’s shocking but true – you have to eat fat to lose fat.
Eskimos live on an enormous amount of fat and they have almost no heart disease, diabetes, or obesity. The catch, however, is that their fat is omega-3 fat, not omega-6. Carbohydrates, processed sugars, and chemical-laden processed foods are what stimulate body fat storage and sales of cholesterol drugs. Government panels and their propagandists have driven many people to consume foods high in sugar and carbohydrates by warning against cholesterol.
As a result, Americans have gotten fatter and fatter, and more Americans than ever are becoming diabetic. Carbohydrates stimulate large quantities of insulin, which directly stimulates radical rises in cholesterol. Even though carbohydrates themselves are fat-free, excess carbohydrates end up as excess fat. The insulin stimulated by excess carbohydrates aggressively promotes the accumulation of body fat.
Increased carbohydrate-produced insulin tells your body to store carbohydrates as fat, and it also tells it not to release any stored fat. This makes it impossible for you to use your own stored body fat for energy. So the excess carbohydrates in your diet not only produce excess insulin that makes you fat, they make sure you stay fat. Unfortunately, modern dietary advice still focuses on high-carbohydrate diets.
It’s important to note that a low cholesterol level is not ideal either. As your cholesterol level falls to a certain point, you jump from the risk of heart disease into the risk of death by other diseases, such as cerebral hemorrhage, gall bladder disease, and many types of cancer. Ideally, cholesterol levels should not be lower than 180 mg/dl to 200 mg/dl range.
To maintain healthy cholesterol levels, learn about an insulin-controlling diet that will help you achieve normal weight and improve your overall health, including reducing the risk of heart trouble. One such option is the Nutritarian Diet, which focuses on fresh, whole foods, primarily raw, and free-range, non-chemical-laden meats. This lifestyle change can lead to positive results beyond anything you can imagine.
