Comments on: Shed U: Cholesterol

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:41:00 +0000

Are you really giving speeches?!?! Let me know! I’d love to attend! I could use some witty dialogue to pass on to my students! Plus I think I may be taking my ACE exam here in the near future

By: Jodi (jodiojo)

Jodi (jodiojo) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:17:06 +0000

Rachel! We at MP4 are totally smitten with you! Umm, LOVE YOU! Great post, great food porn (Kas is on it, I’m sure!) and thank you for just being the bomb! Woop woop!!:o)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:31:02 +0000

Leah — That’s SO interesting about the saturated fat research…I actually hadn’t heard any of that before!! It’s so frustrating how science is constantly telling us what’s “bad” is good and vice versa. I guess given that info, it’s best to focus on things like good foods to add and exercise. I will definitely be reading more of that research and watching the video!

Erin — That’s sweet that you were able to change your number so significantly!! Sometimes food is a great medicine!

Laura — Ummm remember when I said I’m crazy busy right now? It’s because I’m taking on a ton of new projects — including pretty much what you suggested!! The local sororities are about to get a nice lesson in Shed U!

By: Laura Georgina

Laura Georgina — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:32:19 +0000

Too right! You have such a knack for explaining these things . I was writing some health articles for my freelance newswire gig last night, in the necessary brief and boring tone, and thought, “Hmph, I bet Rachel would make this sound interesting and fun and just a bit dirty, too!”

You’d be an awesome health/wellness speaker to go around on college campuses and knock sense into young ladies with your mean girl mnemonics and shed U video antics….
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By: Leah (Nutritionista)

Leah (Nutritionista) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:24:43 +0000

Another good explanation (this time in video form!):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8WA5wcaHp4&feature=related
Rachel, I’m curious to hear what you think!
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By: erin

erin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:10:58 +0000

my cholesterol is genetic. it’s high, and it’s not even funny. it got to the point where I was just like — seriously I should be dead. but the thing is — I was on medicine for a year and a half, and that did NOTHING for me. so i went onto being a vegetarian – but i ate fish every now and then. and paired that with running. that lowered it by like 50 points. I’m not sure what it is now — I just really don’t like the idea of finding out if my cholesterol’s still high, and I have to go back on meds. but oh yeah – i eat oatmeal every single day for breakfast! YUMMMMY!

By: Teri [a foodie stays fit]

Teri [a foodie stays fit] — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:06:42 +0000

Sometimes I hate genetics. I eat well and exercise and still have borderline high cholesterol. Happy Friday! .-= Teri [a foodie stays fit]´s last blog ..Oats in a jar blow me away…and so does the wind =-.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:02:36 +0000

love this post. You are VERY good at explaining “boring” topics in a fun, interesting, and memorable way.
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By: Katie@ Two Lives, One Lifestyle

Katie@ Two Lives, One Lifestyle — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:50:38 +0000

Yay, glad you included that eggs are good! I could go back to my biochem notes (I'd rather not) but I remember learning about how cholesterol in the body is made and it's not from cholesterol in food. Dietary cholesterol does not equal blood cholesterol.. like dietary fat doesn't equal body fat (well if you eat WAY too much of any nutrient it equals body fat). Anywaysssss, it drives me nuts and glad you said something! Though I just read the post above and I gotta read more of that. .-= Katie@ Two Lives, One Lifestyle´s last blog ..Tex-Mex Kitchen Staple Salad =-.

By: Leah (Nutritionista)

Leah (Nutritionista) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:40:43 +0000

Recently, I’ve just been reading a lot of research saying much of what we know about cholesterol/saturated fat is based on faulty research. Basically, scientists are finding that the research connecting sat fat to heart disease is flawed AND they’re seeing more and more research showing that sugars and grains are correlated with heart disease much more strongly. I’m still trying to decide how I feel about the issue, but I’m starting to understand the science behind it. What do you think?

For more info, read this: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/

An excerpt:

As far as heart disease goes, I still have yet to hear a workable process by which saturated fat contributes to it. It increases LDL, but the LDL it increases is large, fluffy, and almost impossible to oxidize. The layman’s notion of saturated fat literally clogging up the arteries like grease in a drain isn’t taken seriously by researchers anymore (who know it’s really all about inflammation and oxidized LDL), but it’s still the most prevalent explanation for why saturated fat is so bad. We now know that the HDL/triglyceride ratio is far more predictive of cardiovascular events than LDL, but still LDL gets all the attention. The “alternative hypothesis” (which is really the one that makes the most sense) focuses more on oxidized polyunsaturated fats and imbalanced Omega-6/Omega-3 ratios rather than saturated fat intake, which (as is pretty obvious by now) doesn’t matter one way or the other. The observational data doesn’t add up, the actual physiological process can’t be explained, and the body seems to prefer saturated fat. I have to ask… if we know that arteries don’t “clog up” from concentrated fatty acids in the blood like bad plumbing and that SFAs aren’t prone to oxidation, just what is the issue with saturated fat and heart health?
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