Then let's talk about those cholesterol . Can you get cholesterol in your diet ? Yes , you can eat foods that are rich in cholesterol , what was known in 1960 but somehow escaped everybody's imagination until finally , the American Heart Association acknowledged this a few years ago is that the cholesterol you eat does not really make it into your body .
Now we probably manage to destery 10 to 15% of our dietary cholesterol . So in other words , there are small amounts of dietary cholesterol that do make their way into our circulation , but it represents a small fraction of our total body's pool of cholesterol . Again , this was known even by Ansel Keyes , the , the the guy who turned fat into the biggest boogeyman of all time , Ansel Keyes acknowledged this in the 19 sixties , dietary cholesterol plays no role in serum cholesterol .
Again , it took the American Heart Association another 60 years to figure that out . But even now they acknowledge that dietary cholesterol has no bearing . So why is it that it's pretty easy to find studies or at least people with who are highly credentialed from good institutions claiming that eating saturated fat that's different saturated fat and red meat things that are rich in cholesterol to be more specific is bad for us in terms of eventual LDL .
So in other words , there are small amounts of dietary cholesterol that do make their way into our circulation , but it represents a small fraction of our total body's pool of cholesterol . Again , this was known even by Ansel Keyes , the , the the guy who turned fat into the biggest boogeyman of all time , Ansel Keyes acknowledged this in the 19 sixties , dietary cholesterol plays no role in serum cholesterol . Again , it took the American Heart Association another 60 years to figure that out .
So this is two different things . So saturated fat consumption in many people will raise LDL cholesterol . So it's important to differentiate between the what what is saturated fat .
