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White meat is just as bad for you as red beef when it comes to your cholesterol level, study says

I think the correct spin is that the fat in red meat is no worse on your cholesterol when compared to white meat when eaten in an already high saturated fat diet.

The appropriate response is that if you already have high cholesterol, it seems that reducing your meat intake in general is best.
 
One obvious takeaway is that it's devilishly difficult to pull meaningful results out of diet studies. Ones that are tightly controlled can't usually be maintained long enough, and longer, more informal ones suffer from bad data. Very difficult to control (or even recognize) all the pertinent variables even in the best case.

So we'll continue to vacillate on many things, but one by one, we're getting it figured out. Trans fats and refined sugar are two examples of substances that are now nearly universally recognized as not conducive to good health.
 
crashtech said:
One obvious takeaway is that it's devilishly difficult to pull meaningful results out of diet studies. Ones that are tightly controlled can't usually be maintained long enough, and longer, more informal ones suffer from bad data. Very difficult to control (or even recognize) all the pertinent variables even in the best case.

So we'll continue to vacillate on many things, but one by one, we're getting it figured out. Trans fats and refined sugar are two examples of substances that are now nearly universally recognized as not conducive to good health.
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The effect on saturated fat and dietary cholesterol on the human body though. It's not something hard to tease out. Take someone with normal cholesterol (not 200, but 160) and give them a single egg. That single egg will raise the serum levels of cholesterol and saturated fat, and that newly raised level will persist for hours and hours.

Sugar isn't talked about in relation to heart disease, our number one killer. Though excess processed sugars is a massive problem and in concert with our diet high in cholesterol and saturated fats is causing the rate of diabetes to go up and up with no end in sight.
 
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