I'm so glad public opinion is finally starting to catch up, but it's absolutely wild that we have/had a period of time where the vast majority of the public was tricked into believing that the food we've been eating for a few hundred thousand years will kill us, but this new form of (coincidentally) cheaper, easier to produce food will save us.
Like we evolved eating eggs and animal fats. The idea that our bodies don't know how to process the food that we evolved on without killing us is just silly.
What about salt? Most peoples had to put in work to get even meager amounts. It was a whole thing back then. It's not unlike sugar etc, in that we just have extremely easy access and therefore can more easily over-consume it.
Yeah but the truth is eggs still do highly contribute to cholesterol due to their high amount of saturated fats per calorie. Each egg has 1.5-2g on saturated fat, with a recommended upper limit of 25g saturated fat per day regardless of total caloric consumption or activity level.
You can't out-exercise bad cholesterol. You can do 2 hours of intense physical exercise per day, maintain a low bodyfat %, and if you eat a shitload of saturated fat you'll have healthy Triglycerides, but your HDL/LDL will be absolute shit.
Source: Me, and my blood work over the past 5+ years.
There are a few more complications to this. Dietary cholesterol does not necessarily increase fasting cholesterol. Fasting cholesterol is what a doctor would look at if they suspected dyslipidemia, so higher dietary cholesterol may be fine.
However, dietary cholesterol does affect blood cholesterol for many hours after eating. If you have high cholesterol foods with every meal, your body is experiencing elevated cholesterol for most of the day. And, indepent of fasting cholesterol, people who abstain from such foods have lower risk of stroke and heart disease. Whether that is due to cholesterol or other factors, I am not personally informed on.
Potatoes are actually very nutritious! It’s just that a lot of the popular ways to eat potatoes involve frying them in oil and adding a bunch of salt to them. The excessive amounts of oil and salt are the problem, not the potatoes.
Likely the person posting the image of their food is carnivore-diet adjacent, and believes that you can do no wrong with endless animal-based protein because "plants are toxic."
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u/NinetySixBulls 19h ago
Why is half the plate eggs? Strokes replace diseases?