You are absolutely correct. Dietary cholesterol was a boogey man created by the Sugar Association and Big Pharma. Fasting insulin levels due to simple carb consumption, especially all of the modern processed forms of sugars, are one of the best indicators of inflammatory processes in the body - plus other metabolic parameters that are rarely tested for outside of alternative medicine like homocysteine, fibrinogen, C-reactive protein, and lipid particle size. What is being tested for on a normal blood lipid panel is like a blind man trying to access what an elephant looks like just by holding on to its tail. Less than 20 percent of cholesterol can be linked to dietary sources. The lion's share is made in the liver - some in response to inflammation. The introduction of HFCS really drove the process since the fructose in metabolized in the liver using the same pathways as alcohol. This is why there has been a steady increase in non alcoholic fatty liver disease. It also goes hand in hand with the epidemic of DM2.

Statin drugs were developed for those people you mentioned that genetically have cholesterol levels that are in the stratosphere. But that doesn't make money so they lied once again to create a market - Hegelian Dialect. Magically what is considered "normal" levels have been moving down for years. The same is true with other parameters - they are all based on averages that can change over time. So what should a healthy level be? Do we even know anymore.

The latest push of the Rockefeller's Reset the Table initiative, also linked to the WHO and the UN, is moving everyone towards an entirely plant based diet - and zee bugs. I recently had to earn some CEUs for state licensing and took a nutrition class. I could not believe the changes that have taken place within the nutrition field in just a few years. Put this all together and it is obvious where certain forces are trying to take us. There is a reason why they are going after particular food sources - and it is not due to cow farts. I have known for a long time that most of the garbage coming out of the so called professional journals that try to pass for legitimate peer reviewed science is bought and paid for by those with an interest in predetermined results. How do I know? I worked in research for over 10 years and saw exactly how the game was played. The money drives the so called science.

The patients that I saw in my practice that were Vegans eventually had it crash and burn in some manner. Mostly immune system and musculoskeletal problems. The Vegans that ran, especially marathon and triathletes, to me seemed to be prone to lower extremity fractures that were shattering in nature - all requiring surgery and ending their athletic careers. After several years it seemed to be a pattern. They also appeared to be more prone to spinal fractures as well. The whole thing appeared to start hitting the wall in the mid to late forties if they had been a Vegan since in their twenties. Some of the women had the skeletal structure of an eighty year old. They had no muscle mass, could not retain body heat, and were sick all the time. I know this is purely anecdotal from my end, but this is what I saw walking into my office. The protein and antioxidant needs of the body were not being met enough to compensate for the activity level. Despite my warnings, they would politely tell me I was full of crap and go on about their business. At some point they came back in with stress fractures and some with severe breaks - and that is on top of the rest of the chronic illness they developed. Like the vaxxine faithful, even then they could not admit it was in fact their so called healthy lifestyle that was actually slowly killing them. Vegetarianism is a cult and not a diet.

Here's real data which shows vegans are 20% more likely to die of a stroke and 18% less likely to die of a heart attack.

Risks of ischaemic heart disease and stroke in meat eaters, fish eaters, and vegetarians over 18 years of follow-up: results from the prospective EPIC-Oxford study

https://www.bmj.com/content/366/bmj.l4897

Obese people are more likely to have blocked arteries than those of normal weight as well.

Carlos Santana is a vegan and not obese, and a 94% blockage is a rare occurrence for somebody in that demographic. That's my only claim.

Can you point to where I claimed a diet high in saturated fat should be avoided?

I don't disagree with the video you posted, by the way. Losing weight is the most important thing one can do to reduce the risk of heart disease and a whole host of other complications. The key to that is eliminating sugar and processed foods as much as possible. Whether that involves eating more meat and going keto, or is accomplished by intermittent fasting, or by going vegetarian/vegan matters little as long as the weight is lost.

u/LongTimeListener has never been to Illinois. The suburban moms there are practically tripping over one another to get that clot shot into their kids.

As soon as I've posted, the board shows a red up-arrow and +1 karma as if I upvoted myself, which I would never do, so I reset it back to +0 by (un)clicking up.

I had no idea that owning vegan shoes prevents 74 year olds from heart disease. Learn something new every day.